If it happened, it was in the news.
Sun (London) – Tuesday 02 January 1810 NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Arrived his Majesty’s ship Shannon, of 36 guns, Capt. Broke, from Basque Roads; on the night of the 27th inst. a ship was discovered at some distance to be on fire, then about 8 leagues to the westward of Ushant; the Shannon immediately stood […]
Chester Chronicle – Saturday 30 January 1869 BROXTON PETTY SESSIONS. Thursday, Jan. 26. — Before J. H. Leeche, Esq. (chairman), Robt. Howard, Esq., Robt. Barbour, Esq., Major Barnston, and Captain R. H. Currie. Alleged Trespass. — Joseph Taylor, of Marbury, was summoned by Mr. Philip Faulkner, of Bradley, for trespassing in pursuit of game on […]
Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger – Saturday 06 April 1872 PETTY SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. (Before H. MILWARD, E. W. HAYWOOD, E. HOLYOAKE, and J. SMITH, Esqs.) Parish Business. – The constables for the several parishes in the division, who were in attendance, were sworn in. It was stated that Mr. John Crow, who was last […]
Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer – Friday 06 November 1925 THE POLICE COURT. LOCOMOTIVES STANDING ON BRIDGES. LIGHTING OFFENCES. Tuesday, before Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Edward Strachey (in the chair), and Messrs. J. G. Norman, M. James, J. H. Tovey and S. W. Warrell. CINEMATOGRAPH LICENSE. On the application of the Rev. Maxwell Fisher (Rector), the […]
Special report on this page: ‘The Use of Racial and Ethnic Editorial in 1918’ (See also this article by Ian Waugh – here) Western Morning News – Friday 05 April 1918 ALLEGED MURDER AT PLYMOUTH. COLOURED SEAMAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Albert Wilson, Granby-street, a merchant seaman of colour, was charged at Plymouth Guildhall yesterday with […]
Leamington Spa Courier – Saturday 17 September 1836 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Commitments to the County Gaol:—By F. Lloyd, Esq., Samuel Fantham, charged with stealing, at Birmingham, a double-barrel gun, the property of Edward Powell. —John Smith, charged with stealing, at Aston, a five-pound note, a sovereign, and three half sovereigns in gold, the property of Jabez […]
Transcription of the Article from the Liverpool Mercury, Friday 15 February 1839 REWARDS TO POLICE-OFFICERS At the Police-office, on Friday last, a publican by the name of George Upton was summoned before the Magistrates on an information, charging him with having, at eleven o’clock on the night of the 14th ult., a number of prostitutes […]
Market Rasen Weekly Mail – Saturday 06 March 1875 LINCOLNSHIRE LENT ASSIZES. The Commission for holding these Assizes will be opened on Thursday, the 11th instant. The following is a calendar of the prisoners awaiting their trial: William Kirkby, 18, farm servant, for committing an unnatural offence, at Appleby, on the 23rd July, 1874. Elizabeth […]
Yorkshire Evening Post – Monday 31 May 1915 YORKSHIREMEN’S EXPERIENCES AT THE FRONT. HUSSARS IN THE TRENCHES. THE CONTENTS OF A SOLDIER’S PACK. The Yorkshire Hussars, made up of troopers from all parts of the West Riding, took part in severe fighting in France on Whit-Sunday and Monday. Trooper George Carver, of “A” Squadron, writing […]
Hendon & Finchley Times – Saturday 29 April 1882 EDGWARE PETTY SESSIONS. APRIL 26, 1882. Before A. R. Johnstone, Esq. (in the chair), E. F. Noel, and W. A. Tooke, Esq. ALLEGED FRAUD. — John George Murray, of Roe-green, Kingsbury, was charged on a warrant with uttering a false cheque for £8 on J. Smart […]
Dial – Saturday 21 January 1860 INSOLVENT DEBTORS’ COURT. IN THE MATTER OF CHARLES SHIPWAY.—This insolvent, described as a Baptist minister, known as the Rev. Charles Shipway, late of Little Hedingham, near Halstead, Essex, who was in the Queen’s Prison, applied to be discharged.—The insolvent was minister of the chapel held by a trustee, who […]
Hereford Journal – Wednesday 30 December 1846 LEDBURY. TURKEY STEALING. – At the Ledbury Petty Sessions last week, two men named John Smith and William Hough were charged with stealing two turkeys, the property of Mrs. Ann Patrick, of Yarkhill. Smith lives at Malvern; Hough being a lodger in his house. The two turkeys in […]
Liverpool Evening Express – Tuesday 20 January 1925 CHASE AFTER MAN WITH DIAMONDS. STORY OF RAID ON JEWEL SHOP AT WARRINGTON. Evening Express Correspondent. Warrington, Tuesday. John Mackay, a young Irishman, no fixed abode, was committed at Warrington today to the Liverpool Assizes on a charge of breaking into a jeweller’s shop in Sankey Street, […]
Chatham Standard – Wednesday 28 June 1950 FELL WHILE PICKING CHERRIES Misadventure Verdict At Inquest On Farm Labourer As the result of a fall from a ladder while picking cherries, 79-years-old Henry James Lockyer, a farm labourer, of 13, Pembury-st., Sittingbourne, died later in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester, from shock and a fractured pelvis. The […]
Cornish Echo and Falmouth & Penryn Times – Saturday 11 October 1873 HUNTING THE POLICE AND RIOTING AT CAMBORNE The police and the mining population of Camborne appear not to be able to saddle horses at all well. Some time ago, there was very personal and bitter controversy between the police and certain men who […]
Coventry Evening Telegraph – Wednesday 30 May 1945 Birmingham Trip in Stolen Motor Lorry Receiving a telephone message from the Birmingham police that a lorry from Coventry had collided with a trolley-bus pole there, and they were detaining a youth who was in the lorry at the time, Detective Dickens went to that city to […]
The Kensington Post – Friday 14 October 1927 ACCIDENTS Colliding with a motor ‘bus at the junction of Wesley Road and Shakespeare Avenue, Stonebridge, Miss Emily Cox, of 28 Pitfield Way, Stonebridge, who was riding a bicycle, was injured, and after treatment by Dr. Bateman, was taken home in the doctor’s car. Edward Low, of […]
Reading Mercury – Monday 09 June 1834 LAW AND POLICE ARCHES COURT — FRIDAY, MAY 30. HADLEY v. REYNOLDS, FALSELY CALLED HADLEY. This was a suit promoted by the Rev. James Hadley, of Powick, in Worcestershire, against Emma, his wife, for a nullity of marriage, on the ground of undue publication of banns. The cause […]
Globe – Thursday 27 September 1883 front The Salvation Army Nuisance At Accrington Police-court yesterday, six members of the Salvation Army, named George Hill, Ellen Williams, Phoebe Kiley, Leonard Halsall, Alfred Farmer, and Henry Bradshaw, were summoned for assaulting Joseph Edmundson, cab proprietor, on the 17th inst. The evidence showed that the Salvation Army were […]
Blackpool Times – Thursday 03 January 1901 Alleged Theft of a Diamond Ring. Defendant Too Ill to Appear. At the Preston General Quarter Sessions, held yesterday, the Chairman, Mr. Worsley-Taylor, Q.C., M.P., stated that the case against Richard Thompson Cubbin, who was charged with stealing a fur-lined overcoat from the Hotel Metropole, Blackpool; a diamond […]
Nottingham Journal (Nottingham Daily Express) – Tuesday 30 May 1899 SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT COALVILLE ATTEMPTED MURDER & SUICIDE A sensation was caused in Coalville yesterday morning by the news that a man named William Evans had attempted to murder his wife and then to commit suicide. Inquiries proved that the rumour was too true. Evans […]
Yorkshire Gazette – Saturday 03 May 1862 TUESDAY, April 29. – Before R. Evers, Esq. OBSTRUCTING THE FOOTPATH. – A youth named Christopher Marsh was charged with obstructing the footpath near to the Railway Station. He was standing on the flags with the usual apparatus for cleaning the boots of any person in passing who […]
Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal – Tuesday 09 July 1872 THE CHARGE OF PERJURY. In the charge against the men, Basschell and Leggett, adjourned from the last court on a question of jurisdiction, the clerk to the magistrates informed the bench that he had taken the opinion of Mr. Merrifield, who thought it would […]
Sheffield Independent, Monday, 5 January 1874: Critical Condition of a Drunken Man About eight o’clock on Saturday evening, Police-constable Stone found a man named William Keddy of Arthur Street lying in Bridge Street. He was drunk and bleeding profusely from a wound on the back of his head. The officer removed him to the Police […]
Barnsley Chronicle – Saturday 11 February 1860 Vagrancy. James Greenham, an old man, who is said to have had nearly one stone of bread in his possession when he was taken into custody, was charged on Wednesday, at the Court-house, before J. Barff, Esq., with begging alms on Monday. Police-constable Milsom proved the offence, and […]
Marylebone Mercury – Friday 23 December 1949 Shoplifting — ‘Wicked dishonesty’ Sentencing Bessie Studd, 48, housewife, of Lower Higham Road, Gravesend, Kent, to five months’ imprisonment for stealing a game, worth 3s. 3d., from an Oxford Street store, Mr. Geoffrey Raphael, the Marylebone magistrate, told her she was absolutely a public menace and, if not […]
Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday, 3 August 1811 Singular Genealogy. — All the persons named in the following genealogy were living at Faversham, in Kent, 1760, excepting only the former wife of the elder Cashick. Old Harwood had two daughters by his first wife, of which the eldest was married to John Cashick, the son, and the youngest […]
October 26, 1898 | ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE THE ANTIQUARIAN ROMANCE. MORE REMARKABLE EVIDENCE. Mr. Lushington sat again specially at Bow-street yesterday for the further hearing of the charges against Herbert Davies, twenty-five, “private surgeon,” of Castlenau-gardens, Barnes, of forging entries in Mangotsfield parish register, tampering with monuments and coffins, forging three sixteenth-century wills, and making […]
Family notices in old newspapers are important because they provide essential details about individuals, relationships, and communities, offering a rich resource for genealogical research and insights into social history. Here is an example: Gloucester Citizen (Thursday 8th December 1927): BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, In Memoriam Notices, Acknowledgements of Sympathy, […]
Tavistock Gazette – Friday 22 October 1875 Tavistock Football Club. — At a meeting held at the Queen’s Head Hotel, on Monday last, Mr. G. Gibbings in the chair, it was resolved: — That the club be called the “Tavistock Football Club.” That the annual subscription be 3s. That the laws of the club be […]
