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Thomas Wootton criminal 1800s
« on: Saturday 04 September 10 15:21 BST (UK) »
a more unusual request here lol... and more vague lol...

Im after a Thomas Wootton, also seen as wooton,wotton... with a nickname "Shog" or "Shogg" apparently he was the leader of "the most desperate gang in the country who make there headquarters in Birmingham"

He was charged in 1857 at derby assizes for burglary at the home of reverend joseph nodder in chester (a distant cousin of mine was there too, and had to lower herself out of the bedroom window and flee for help)

Thomas was charged for 25 years "beyond the sea" to freemantle prison australia... but apparently... it looks like he had been transported (dont know where too) before, and had come back and done it again lol His convict papers say he had a previous conviction

I know he was aquitted  15th October 1839 for another crime of larceny in Derbyshire I dont know if that would be his previous conviction, as he was aquitted? but im dying to find out more about this gang and of thomas and what he got up to lol and, where he ended up!
Smith, Tolley, Griffiths,
Monaghan, Richards, Clark, Clarke,
Brazier, Filben, Fibben,Filbin
Sherdon, Churden,Sheldon
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Bilston, Kent, London, Middlesex

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Re: Thomas Wootton criminal 1800s
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 19 September 10 18:46 BST (UK) »
There is a pretty detailed explanation of the 1857 crime in the Derby Mercury of Wed 4 March 1857 (including what I presume is your distant cousin's escape), in a report of the initial hearing (p.8). You may be able to get a copy of this report of the court from Derbyshire Libraries or their Archives service.

In a paragraph mentioning the actual trial, the Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser of Saturday 28 Mar 1857 (p.2) states that he was given a 'ticket of leave' suspending his previous order for transportation, so he obviously never actually left on that previous occasion.

A handful of large libraries around the UK have access to a searchable digitised archive of 19th century newspapers from around the UK, which is where I found this information. My own library makes this available through its web pages, so that library members can access it from home. And jolly useful it is too for this kind of thing.

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Re: Thomas Wootton criminal 1800s
« Reply #2 on: Monday 20 September 10 00:11 BST (UK) »
oh!...so a ticket of leave can be hmm how do i say... issued here? he can be sentenced for transportation here.. but still get a ticket of leave here ... so he doesnt get sent?
Smith, Tolley, Griffiths,
Monaghan, Richards, Clark, Clarke,
Brazier, Filben, Fibben,Filbin
Sherdon, Churden,Sheldon
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Bilston, Kent, London, Middlesex

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Re: Thomas Wootton criminal 1800s
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 September 10 17:04 BST (UK) »
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, tickets of leave were issued both in England and in the colonies, so that the sentence was, in effect, suspended, on the basis that the person sentenced would do useful work instead, A kind of probation, I suppose. Interesting topic, but that's all I know about it!

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Re: Thomas Wootton criminal 1800s
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 12 October 10 11:34 BST (UK) »
This may be Thpmas Wooton, son of James Wooton (1750) and Ann Owen (1754), born Birmingham, 1794. I can find no marriage for him but he had eight female siblings born between 1777 and 1796.

If this is the right man he was christened 1 Sep 1794 at St Philips, Birmingham.

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