Gypsy references gleaned and transcribed from  National Library of Wales http://www.llgc.org.uk

 

"The Crime and Punishment database "

Comprises data about crimes, criminals and punishments included in the gaol files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until its abolition in 1830. The Court could try all types of crimes, from petty thefts to high treason. In practice, most of the petty crimes were heard at the Courts of Quarter Sessions, whose records are held by the Welsh county record offices. Details about these records can be searched at Archives Network Wales. The records of the Court of Great Sessions do not include cases tried in Monmouthshire since that county formed part of the Oxford Assize circuit, whose records are held by the National Archives.

 

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Accused Thomas Ingram; Parish: Llanidloes; County: Montgomery; Status: Gypsy

Offence Highway robbery. No indictment. Prisoner died a natural death in gaol on 11 - 4 - 1758.

 

Value: £7 7s. 6d.Location and date Parish: Unspecified; County: Cardigan?; Date: September 1757

Prosecutor Abraham Woods, Rhuthun, co. Denb., hosier.

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Accused Henry Lovel; Parish: Unspecified; County: Unspecified; Status: Gypsy

Offence Highway robbery. No indictment.

Value: £7 7s. 6d.

County: Cardigan: Date: September 1757

Prosecutor Abraham Woods, Rhuthun, co. Denb., hosier.

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Accused George Boswell; Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Status: Vagrant

Offence Rape of Ann Ingram, prosecutor's wife, who carried pedlar's ware. The victim recalled a group of thirty people, including 'young lads and girls' who were 'talking in a language unknown' to her. See also no. 30 in this file.

Location and date Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Date: 9 May 1758

Prosecutor William Ingram, Llanwenarth, Mon.

Plea Not guilty.---Verdict Not guilty.

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Accused George Boswell; Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Status: Vagrant

Offence Highway robbery of Ann Ingram, prosecutor's wife and stealing money and cloth belonging to the prosecutor. See text for no. 29 in this file.

Value: £4 3s. 6d.

Location and date Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Date: 9 May 1758

Prosecutor William Ingram, Llanwenarth, co. Mon.

 

Verdict No true bill.File number 4/186/1-Document number 30

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Accused Peter Boswell; Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Status: Vagrant

Offence Rape of Ann Ingram, prosecutor's wife, who carried pedlar's ware. The victim recalled a group of thirty people, including 'young lads and girls' who were 'talking in a language unknown' to her. See also no. 30 in this file.

Location and date Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Date: 9 May 1758

Prosecutor William Ingram, Llanwenarth, Mon.

Plea Not guilty.---Verdict Not guilty.

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Accused Peter Boswell; Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Status: Vagrant

Offence Highway robbery of Ann Ingram, prosecutor's wife and stealing money and cloth belonging to the prosecutor. See text for no. 29 in this file.

 

Value: £4 3s. 6d.

Location and date Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Date: 9 May 1758

Prosecutor William Ingram, Llanwenarth, co. Mon.

Plea Not guilty.--Verdict Not guilty.

File number 4/186/1--Document number 30--Other documents I (Key)

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Accused Mary Wood (Alias: Mary Boswell); Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Status: Spinster/vagrant

Offence Aiding and abetting the rape of Ann Ingram, prosecutor's wife, who carried pedlar's ware. The victim recalled a group of thirty people, including 'young lads and girls' who were 'talking in a language unknown' to her. See also no. 30 in this file. Indicted with her family, possibly in-law?

Location and date Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Date: 9 May 1758

Prosecutor William Ingram, Llanwenarth, co. Mon.

Plea Not guilty.--Verdict Not guilty.

File number 4/186/1--Document number 29--Other documents I, R (Key)

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Accused Mary Wood (Alias: Mary Boswell); Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Status: Spinster/vagrant

Offence Highway robbery of Ann Ingram, prosecutor's wife and stealing money and cloth belonging to the prosecutor. See text for no. 29 in this file. Indicted with her family, possibly in-law?

 

Value: £4 3s. 6d.Location and date Parish: Llanbryn-mair; County: Montgomery; Date: 9 May 1758

Prosecutor William Ingram, Llanwenarth, co. Mon.

Verdict No true bill.

File number 4/186/1--Document number 30-Other documents I, R (Key)

((Seems these 2 families were at odds with one another !!))

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Accused Daniel Lovel; Parish: No fixed abode (~); County: Unspecified; Status: Vagrant (Amendments)

Offence Highway robbery and stealing money and wearing apparel. The warrant, sent to the constables of Carmarthenshire, refers to four men, two of whom are named and known to the prosecutor; the others an 'old tall man' and a tall young man with a whitish cloth coat and his black hair tied behind' and a young lusty woman and a scar in her cheek'. No indictment.

Location and date Parish: Merthyr Cynog (?~); County: Brecon; Date: 2 July 1755 (Amendments)

Prosecutor Peter Jones, Llanllechid, co. Caern. card-m

File number 4/186/1

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Accused Henry Lovel; Parish: No fixed abode; County: Unspecified; Status: Vagrant

Offence Highway robbery and stealing money and wearing apparel. The warrant, sent to the constables of Carmarthenshire, refers to four men, two of whom are named and known to the prosecutor; the others an 'old tall man' and a tall young man with a whitish cloth coat and his black hair tied behind' and a young lusty woman and a scar in her cheek'. No indictment.

Location and date Parish: Merthyr Cynog (?~); County: Brecon; Date: 2 July 1755 (Amendments)

Prosecutor Peter Jones, Llanllechid, co. Caern. card-m

File number 4/186/1-Document number 4~Other documents Wa (Key)

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Accused Henry Lovel; Parish: Unspecified; County: Unspecified; Status: Gypsy

Offence Highway robbery. No indictment. See also A.O.H Jarman and Eldra Jarman, 'The Welsh Gypsies' 1991.

Value: £7 7s. 6d.

Location and date Parish: Unspecified; County: Cardigan?; Date: September 1757

Prosecutor Abraham Woods, Rhuthun, co. Denb., hosier

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England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892

Name:Benjn Hearn

Age: 45

Estimated birth year: abt 1762

Date of Trial: 7 Jul 1807

Trial Year: 1807

Location of Trial:Middlesex, England

Sentence: Death ....Pardoned and given Transportation

Prison Hulk record*

Name:Benjn Hearne

Age: 45

Estimated birth year: abt 1762

Date Received: 3 Sep 1807

Ship: Retribution

Place Moored:Woolwich

Date Convicted:1 Jul 1807

Place Convicted:Middlesex

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Date of Trial:Lent 1808

Location of Trial:Leicestershire, England

Sentence:Death

Sentenced to death for sheep stealing ,Solomon Herring , Mary Herring ,England Herring, Absalom Smith and Vine? Smith

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Name:Widlermeate Boswell

Date of Trial: Lent 1810

Trial Year:1810

Location of Trial:Hertfordshire, England

Sentence: Imprisonment...Larceny

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Name:England Hearn

Date of Trial: Summer 1816

Trial Year:1816

Location of Trial:Rutland, England

Sentence:Transportation

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Name:Meshach Hearn

Date of Trial: 3 Jan 1870

Trial Year:1870

Horse Stealing

Location of Trial:Hertfordshire, England

Sentence: 7 Years Imprisonment

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Name:William Smith

[Francis Hearn]

Date of Trial: Michaelmas 1833

Trial Year:1833

Horse Stealing

Location of Trial:Hertfordshire, England

Sentence:Transportation,,Life