Crime And Punishment

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