Any dastardly crimes committed in the past on members of your family...?

[D ap D]

5th December, 1781 on my 5x grandfather, Richard Down.

CHARLES PEAT was indicted for feloniously making an assault upon RICHARD DOWN , Esq. upon the 27th of October last, upon the king's highway, in the parish of Finchly, and putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and taking from his person a silk purse, value 3 d. and 23 shillings in money numbered, being his property .

Poor old Charles Peat was hanged. 

Got a bit of good news to update this posting with. I have been contacted by a descendant of Charles Peat. He wasn't hanged after all, he was transported to Oz on the first fleet.

[Keith Sherwood]

Well that's good news, D ap D,
Though I hoped he survived the voyage, and possibly made good in Oz if he ever obtained a release...
Keith

[jacquelineve]

 As far as I know,none committed on my family, but a few
by committed by them.

One offense for stealing pigeons, don't know whether he
ate them or raced them,

                   Jacqueline.

[Paul E]

Does census evasion constitute a dastardly crime?

Paul

[mc8]

Does census evasion constitute a dastardly crime?

Paul

or failure to leave a birth/ marriage or death record for me to find? The more I research, the more I can discard the exotic oral history and recognise the ordinary lives of desperately poor folk. After nearly a century, they had raised themselves up to the lofty professions of dustmen and collar sewers. Immediate family are something different though-some proper crooks in that lot, switching peckham for canary wharfe and a string of passports/ aliases to boot.

[dennford]

        While researching my Proctor line I came across this "nice guy" from the same area, I don't think he is related to any of us on this site (or at least not that any of us wish to admit to.
         Rather than repeat the whole story here - the website tells the story well enough without my interference.

http://www.geocities.com/seraphim_angel_2002/PriscillaBiggadyke.html
 
                                                Denn

[Ninatoo]

I have one poor woman who was repeatedly beaten by her "ill-behaved" daughter, ending up in the poorhouse after two such beatings.  The third time she was admitted with burns, and died a short time after.  I suspect the daughter again.  Guess who signed the death registration?

[smuckerooney]

My Uncle A (deceased) was a lookout at a teddy bear factory where he and his chums were 'screwing' the place.  Police were informed and were at the place just in time to see the lorry and goods flying away from the scene.  What to do?  Go for the poor lookout....why?...because Uncle A's wooden leg had become trapped in the fencing and had departed from the upper limb

7yrs in Wormwood Scrubs.

Perleeease....no jokes about "he didn't have a leg to stand on"  He got out in 2 yrs though because he couldn't 'bear' it in there

Honest story

Rog

[Minn]

One night in 1870 my g g grandfather was robbed of 4 shillings & a bunch of keys while drunk & insensible on a dungheap in Marylebone. (No wonder my g grandfather emigrated!) 

According to The Times, the offender was caught by a passing policeman. Found guilty & sentenced to 6 months with hard labour.

M