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Re: Dorset Prison Record 1875
« Reply #9 on: Monday 15 October 18 07:14 BST (UK) »
Second Image:

Marks = Dark mole right side face; wen near left ear; thick lips; head leans to right [?]

'leans to right slightly'

Sounds like a handsome chappy.  :o
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Re: Dorset Prison Record 1875
« Reply #10 on: Monday 15 October 18 07:29 BST (UK) »
After sifting through old newspapers and censuses, I don't think the Charles Cobb in your first image, charged with forgery, is the same Charles in the other images.  This one was born around 1836, and can be tracked on the Wimborne Minster censuses, while the others can be tracked on the Bere Regis censuses, and their ages are half a generation out.

Source: Sherborne Mercury 24 July 1855

Dorset Summer Assizes

Trials of Prisoners

Charles Cobb, 19, pleaded guilty to forging certain
warrants and orders, for the payment of money, at
Wimborne Minster, on the 8th June.  The judge
observed that he did not consider the case to be one
of the same serious nature as those in which promis-
sory notes and bills of Exchange were circulated, or
attempted to be circulated, through the country; but
still it was a grave offence, for the prisoner had de-
frauded a shopkeeper, and also his master, by giving
false orders to obtain goods and money and he had
placed forged names to the warrants for that purpose.
The offence of forgery must always be treated se-
verely, more particularly where it related to negocia-
ble instruments which passed from hand to hand.
The sentence was six months hard labour.


I also came across an article in 1863 that fits in the right locale of the other Cobbs, where a pair of first cousins (Levi and John) robbed a Samuel Cobb (who had at least two sons, named Charles and Daniel).  Levi is from Wimborne Minster, so perhaps the forger Charles is a cousin to your Charles.

Sorry if this is all confusing, but there are a lot of Cobbs in Dorset, and a lot of them keep using the same name for their children for many generations.

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Re: Dorset Prison Record 1875
« Reply #11 on: Monday 15 October 18 07:49 BST (UK) »
That’s very interesting thanks.

In terms of my family, Samuel Cobb was the father of Samuel Charles (sometimes just Charles) and he had a son called Charles.
Daniel and Charles were brothers and sons of Samuel Charles.
The son Charles died at 28

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Re: Dorset Prison Record 1875
« Reply #12 on: Monday 15 October 18 18:29 BST (UK) »
Second Image:

Marks = Dark mole right side face; wen near left ear; thick lips; head leans to right [?]

'leans to right slightly'

Sounds like a handsome chappy.  :o

 ;) :D us Cobb's are good looking country folk you know!  :-*


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Re: Dorset Prison Record 1875
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 16 October 18 06:55 BST (UK) »
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