Name & Date
Charge, verdict & sentence
Personal
Eliza Ball
1862 1st November
Unlawfully endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child by secreting and disposing of the dead body at Almondsbury on 17th October 1862.
15/12/1862 Pleaded guilty and sentenced to 6 weeks hard labour. Term expired 25/1/1863.
Thornbury servant aged 18, 4ft 11.5 inches, dark brown hair, dark grey eyes, short face and sallow complexion. Small mole over right eyebrow, one on right and ten on left of chest.
Eliza Jones
1868 21st August
Stealing …. wearing apparel the property of Samuel Morgan at Thornbury.
21/10/1868 Pleaded guilty 0f larceny with previous conviction and sentenced to 7 years penal servitude. To Mill Bank Prison.
Thornbury servant aged 25, 5ft 3.5 inches, dark hair, grey eyes, long face, and sallow complexion. Has lost top of right little finger. Single with 3 children. 3 previous convictions for stealing.
Alfred Kimbury
14th January 1869
Stealing 3 sack bags value the property of Joseph Staley at Thornbury on 28th October 1868. Also stealing an iron head of a hatchet the property of Mary Mogg at Olveston on 26th December 1868.
16/5/1869 Pleaded guilty of larceny from his master with previous conviction and sentenced to 6 calendar months hard labour. Discharged 16/9/1869.
Thornbury labourer aged 21, 5ft 6 inches, brown hair, hazel eyes, oval face and fresh complexion. Scar under right eye moles on … Married with no family.
Eliza Ball
30th January 1869
Feloniously larcening two half sovereigns and a halfcrown the property of John Spill at Thornbury on 22/1/1869.
17/3/1869. Guilty of larceny and sentenced to 2 calendar months hard labour. Discharged 16/5/1869.
Thornbury field labourer aged 45, 5ft with brown hair. grey eyes, long face and sallow complexion. Cut on right arm and scar on nose. Native of Thornbury, Widow with 3 children
Alfred Baret Ball
30th January 1869
Feloniously larcening two half sovereigns and a halfcrown the property of John Spill at Thornbury on 22/1/1869.
17/3/1869 Pleaded guilty of larceny and sentenced to one week’s hard labour. Discharged 23/3/1869.
Thornbury labourer aged 10 years with brown hair, grey/hazel eyes oval face and light complexion. Native of Thornbury, single, Weslyan
Henry Jones
21st January 1873
At Cromhall at one o’clock in the morning on 19/1/1873 entering the property of the Earl of Ducie with the purpose of taking and destroying game and also for assaulting and beating the gamekeepers.
19/3/1873 Pleaded guilty of assaulting gamekeeper with a gun when night poaching and sentenced to 12 months hard labour.
Crossways nr Thornbury. labourer aged 29, 5ft 5.5 inches, brown hair, dark blue eyes, oval face and fresh complexion. Cut on right elbow and back of left hand, arms freckled. Native of Thornbury, married with 3 children. Wife – Ruth Jones, Crossways.
James Hicks
21st January 1873
as above
19/3/1873 Pleaded guilty of assaulting gamekeeper with a gun when night poaching and sentenced to 6 months hard labour.
Crossways labourer aged 40, 5ft 4 inches with brown hair, grey eyes, long face and fresh complexion. Cut on right fingers and lost 3 front teeth. Native of Thornbury, single. Father – Edmond Hicks, Crossways.
William Sims
2nd December 1876
Unlawfully maliciously and feloniously maiming and wounding a mare the property of George Taylor at Cromhall on 30th October 1874.
7/1/1875 Guilty of feloniously wounding a mare and sentenced to 3 months hard labour
Thornbury labourer aged 44, 5ft 7 inches, black hair, brown eyes, oval face and sallow complexion. Face and arms freckled, mole left arm and left shoulder and 2 moles left side of neck. Native of Kilcote, married with 6 children. Previously fined for assault. Wife – Sarah Sims, Milbury Heath
William Page
19th November 1876
Stealing at Olveston on 3rd June 1878 one gold ring the property of his master, George Edward Meredith.
3/7/1878 pleased guilty and sentenced to 3 months hard labour. Term expired 2/10/1878
Thornbury hawker aged 32, 5ft 8 inches, dark brown hair, dark grey eyes, short face and sallow complexion. Born Frampton Cotterell. Father – Joseph Turner.
Edward Livell
20th June 1878
Stealing at Thornbury on 17th June 1878 one scythe the property of Thomas Evans Hignall.
3/7/1878 pleased guilty with previous convictions. Sentenced to 2 months hard labour and one year police supervision. Term expired 28/11/1878
Thornbury labourer aged 19, 5ft 2inches, dark grey hair, grey eyes, oval face, fresh complexion. Mole back of neck. Third finger left hand fractured. Born Elberton. Father – Richard Livell, Thornbury
Mildred Powell
26th October 1878
Charged with wilful murder of a certain unnamed child at Thornbury on 11/10/1878.
29/10/1878 pleaded guilty to endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child. Sentenced to one month hard labour. Term expired 28/11/1878
Thornbury servant aged 25, 5ft 1.5 inches, dark brown hair, grey eyes, oval face, sallow complexion. Scar on right eyebrow and mole on left eyebrow. Born Cromhall. single, nothing known except having had 3 children. Mother Mary Powell, Rangeworthy Falfield