Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars

[catanaccio]

Hi. 

I have recently found through an online transcription of the above records which seems to have been undertaken by Wiltshire Family History Society that a relative was imprisoned in Wiltshire on 4 January 1848 aged just 15.  His name was Hezekiah DEAR.

Can anyone explain whether the source documents would have held more details than have been transcribed, in particular his offence and the length of detention?  If not, do any other sets of records in the county hold similar information?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Ian.

[davierj]

Hi Ian, I think the Quarter Session records would be held in the Wiltshire Record Office and should provide more information than you already have.   It would be interesting to see what he was charged with as minor transgressions were normally dealt with by Petty Sessions.   Information could also be obtained from the calendar of prisoners on remand at the gaols etc.

1851 has him as a prisoner HO107/1846, f461, sched 194.   Devizes Road, Wilts Gaol

Hezekiah Dear, PS, U, 18, lab, WIL Fisherton Anger

He was sentanced to at least 3 years in prison.

Cheers Dave

[davierj]

More information found in Quarter Sessions records. 

Hezekiah Dear together with Henry Hall and James Dear were held at County Gaol awaiting trial at the Devizes Sessions 4 Jan 1848.   They were all charged together and committed 15 Nov 1847 for having feloniously stolen 1 bushel of apples property of Robert Farrant at Fugglestone St Peter.

Hezekiah Dear and Henry Hall were sentanced 'to be severally confined in the County Gaol for 1 week in solitude and to be once privately whipped.'   James Dear had a similar sentance but was given 14 days in prison.

As I mentioned before Hezekiah Dear was in prison in 1851 but I was unable to find a record for a further crime in the Quarter Session records.

Dave