Hi Richard
Another great story from you, very interesting, i have just been looking at the Pullens, there is familys of them, Hawkers, from the South Coast that makes the papers back into the 1800s, there seams to be a ruff and tough lot from the London way around the turn of the 1900s, then some way back to, some start of working on the fairs then go on to be big names in the Showmans Worled, i do not know who anyone is or are they related to the Pullens who are the Same as the Mark Hearn Familys you look for, i have hundreds of records that i write down with information on, i have just put a few of the Hearns on below, and i put the one about Plato Ayres on for i am looking into the name Plato. i saw the records of the Bucklands but also the Smiths are way back with that name, i will try and find more now of Ayres, i have learned so much history of the Gipsies from Scotland to Wales, coast to Coast, the Sharlottes can be spelt Charlottes, they to are Related to my Mother, the Nelsons i think to can be Nielsons, they are mostley from Scotland and related also in the records i find, and Nicholas of the the Slenders, they like that name, the Smalls from the South are interesting to.
everything below just Extracts
Thursday 11 January 1816 Bath Chronicle and Weekley Gazette
Saturday also 3 April Bristol Mirror
George Pullen, up for stealing a chestnut mare.
Tuesday 2 July 1861 South Eastern Gazette Kent Ann Pullen, 41 travelling Hawker charged with stealing Saturday 29 June 1861 in the Dover Telegraph and Cinque-Ports General Advertiser in the same year she is described as a Hawker of Millinery and Haberdashery. Job Pullen, adjudged a rogue and a Vagabond in 1810 on Thursday 11 October in the Cheltenham Chronicle. On Tuesday of July 7 1818 in the Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser London, W. Pullen Hawker was convicted at the Swann Inn Chichester, a missing dog was found in the cart of Pullen, with the most horrible brutality he took the dog from the cart and broke both its forelegs, the correspondent writes “rejoice to hear that the Magistrates are determined to inflict this cruel wretch the severest penalty of the law”. Edward Pullen of Kent Street a Fish Hawker on Wednesday 9 June 1880 charged with cruelty to a horse. In 1909 in several papers there is the story of the Sand Bagging Hawker Spies who are a burglar gang, it is from the London Sessions Courts, William Pullen, Hawker, Albert Legg and Richard Smith, they would go round Hawking flowers and keep an eye out for houses to break into, they would hit people with a bag of sand to stun them instead of say a heavy club that might kill them, that is where the term sand-bagging derives its origin. Friday 20 September 1907 in the Globe London it is wrote of assaults on the Police from a violent gang from Wansworth, they were convicted at the Old Bailey Criminal Court, Timothy Hearn 35 a Hawker, Joseph Pullen 33 and Charles Fuller 38 who was said to be a Carman. Also in the South London Press on the 10 of August and on the 3 to in the Croydon Chronicle and East Surrey Advertiser it is wrote of a Timothy Hearn 33 who also goes by the name of Young. Timothy Hearne is known as a Costermonger in the year 1909 on Saturday 14 August, Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette London, there is also quite a few with a John Hearne a Costermonger around the same years. There is the name Pullen in the Papers from the South relating to the many people who have sorts of rides or attractions at Fairs and such, many names are listed, there are names like Herrings and Pullens that caught my eye from the early 1900s, then the Pullen’s seam to expand and up the North you will find many story’s of their times in further years, a very big name was the Pullen’s.
Tuesday 23 August 1949
Great Old Lady of Showland Dies.
Mary Ann Pullen(90). The Feasts and Fairs of the North have lost a great character. Mrs. Pullen was the mother of Mr. William Pullen, the present King of the Showmen, and President of the Showman’s Guild. She had lived in a caravan most of her life; managed the steam swings since the death of her husband and had brought up her family in caravans.
In the Kentish Independent 25 May 1844 Clementine Draper Leandra Hearn Sophia Hearn and Susanna Lee are up in court. Then in the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser and also the Southern Eastern Gazette on the 9 July1833 Leander Hearn a Gipsy girl is spoken of, also Croydon is talked about. In 1802 in the Bury and Norwich Post, Sophia Hearn and a gang of 10, vagrants, commonly known as Gipsies were commited to Wood-Bridge House of Correction.
There is a Plato Ayres and Raymond Sexton charged with robbery and stabbing in 1866 22 July, Uxbridge & W Drayton Gazette yet on the 28 July in the Windsor and Eton Express they are now known as Raymond Ayres and Plato Sexton, in August they are said to be 18 and 19 years of age in the London Daily News, there is a Plato Sexton charged with turning animals out to graze in 1859 Windsor and Eton Gazette 25 June
Richard i will try and find the Ayres Family next plus the Plato name, i have lots of records of them somewhere, but everything over the last few years research is mixed up, but i will try my best and find evan small things that may interest you.
michael