Committal of a Surgeon and his Wife in Worcester
A Derby town case reports surgeon Joseph David March and Mary Branston being committed for trial on a charge of exposing a three day old infant to suffocation with intent to murder. Evidence includes a reputed daughter and the mother of the child detailing suspicions and nursery plans. The couple lived in High street Deritend and allegedly used the house to receive expectant women for confinement before the infant vanished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph David March
Ex- Worcester
Mary Branston
March
Deritend
Branston
Birmingham Journal
Mary Ann March
Griffiths
Anne Milne
Dudley
Peter Anderson
West Indies
America
Anderson
Em. Taylor
Murph
Wimbledon
Charlotte Hall
Church-street
Men Hall
Dr. Bright
Mr. Fennell
Bright
Booth
South Western Railway Station
Hall
Granard-lodge
Putney-park
France
Croydon
Dover
Carter
East Surrey
Dug and Fox
Ann Brown
James Bright
Westminster
Hill
Westminster Hospital
Lincatan Roswery
Apat
Liverpaol Albion
Foneign Com
May
Netherlands
Taberrer
Weaman-row
Messrs
Calley and Co
Weaman-street
Birmingham Gazette
Stafford
Murgoers
NorTincaam
Robert Sutton
Mary Sutton
New Bedford
Ann Saville
Lucy Wardle
Samuel Wardle
Woodstreet
América
Samuel Wilkinson
Nottingham
Wardle’s
Sutton
James Unwin
Saville
William Parr
Colwick
Elizabeth Tate
Sandford Tatham Davison
Carlton
Execution Of William Crouch For Wife Murder At Newgate
A detailed report describes the hanging of William Crouch at Newgate for murdering his wife in Upper Marylebone Street. It notes his calm demeanor, lack of remorse, and the crowd of about ten thousand gathered outside as the execution proceeded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Crouch
Queen knighthood for Frederic The siger solicitor-general
Buckingham Gazette reports on May 28 list of appointments including Frederic The siger being knighted by the Queen. Also notes commissions in Buck Yeomanry and insolvency declarations for numerous individuals across London and counties. Listed are marriages registrations certified under the Dissenters' Act and a long roster of bankrupts dividends certificates partnerships dissolved and sequestration notices with multiple names and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckthehan-Palace
Frederic Thesiger
County of Bucks
Bucks Yeomanry
Cornet
John Garnard
J. Clode
Henry William Bonsey
Marquis of Chandos
Baptist Meeting
Ebenezer Chapel
Chesterton
Cambridgeshire
Capel Issa
Llanfair
Montgomeryshire
Wesleyan Methodist
Helston
Cornwall
G. Kerating
Oxford Street
Stepney
W. H. A. Cole
H. Tovey
Bristol
J.J. Shotbolt
Pinchbeck
Lincolnshire
J. Wadge
Holloway
W. Turner
St. Alban’s Street
Lambeth
H. B. Glover
Great Bland Street
Great Dover Street
H. White
Camden Town
Elizabeth Mary Danels
Turnham Green
C. Perkin
Bollington
Cheshire
J. E. Adams
St. Marylebone
G. Parker
Norwich
Elizabeth Phillipps
Albany Street
Regent's Park
H. Jennings
Princes Road
W. Jones
Litchborough
Northamptonshire
H. T. Archer
Jol Street
Adelphi
J. Read
Cheam
Surrey
J.W. Newton
Moulton
G. E. Green
Walley
Lancashire
D. Roberts
Manchester
T. Singleton
Sheffield
W. Hallsey
Derby Street
Mayfair
J. Longbottom
Warley
Yorkshire
Ellen Maitland
Stamford Street
Black Rars Road
J. Sison
Brighton
J. Berwick
Calverley
T. Kearsley
T. Wat
Runcorn
W. Monk
Nottingham
J. Barnard
Cheltenham
R. Evershed
Pulborough
Sussex
T. D. Alderson
Great Marlborough Street
Warwick Street
Golden Square
W. R. Pigott
Goldsmith Street
Wood Street
J. Bennett
Reading
W. Baker
Lower Grosvenor Street
Bond Street
T. Cornish
W. Scott
Regent Street
Cumberland
B. Gardner
Leigh
Worcestershire
W. Parr
Norton In the Moors
Staffordshire
T. L. Parker
Edgbaston
Warwickshire
J. Todd
Hartfield
T. Wilkinson
King Street
Holborn
J. Milner
Brook Street
New Road
T. Watson
Camomile Street
Victualler
W. Copprer
Grocer
Parkes and Henderson
Duke Street
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Ventnor
Isle of Wight
Carpenters
C. Williams
Sunderlan
Currier
T. Shillito
Leeds
R. Smith
Worcester
J. Atkins
Aston
J. Smith
Darenth
Kent
Carpenter
W. Jackson
Liverpool
N. T. Smith
Jun
Lime Street
J R. Bradley
J. Wade
Birmingham
J. Finney
Woore
Shropshire
F. Hillam
Cambridge Terrace
Edgeware Road
E. and
A. Levy
Butolph Lane
W. Butcher
R. N. Munton
Greatford
J. Sewell
Chatteris
Money Scrivener
Park and Pinsent
Newton Bushel
Devonshire
Kiernan and Yon
Southampton
RK. Pinder
Cheltenham and
Exeter
Bella and Hughes
Aldersgate Street
W. Bellj
Frost and Clarke
Bury St Edmunds
T. Tonks
Pruters
Barridge and Heath
St. John’s Square
Clerkenwell
Aage
Gardner and Jenkins
Bath
Horsefield
Fothergill
Calico Printere
M. and
T. Perkins
Willesborough
Millere— Gilbert, Brothers
Read and Page
Ipswich
Morris and Sons
St Mary At Hill
Y. Morris
Williams and Co
James Street
Newcut
Merton
Croxon, Jones, Croxon, and Co
Oswestry
J. Gibbons
G White
Greenock
Rice Miler
Gatherings Extraordinary and Disreputable Auctions of Oddities
A Dumfries Courier column describes in curious detail a pair dying within a day in Galloway and the odd hoard of valuables found, from silver and gold coins to silk stockings and wine. It notes the husband a famed pigeon fancier and a natural history quirk about the turtle dove, then shifts to Tarporley crime reports where five youths claim famous thief aliases during a Northwich felony arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galloway
Dumfries
The Poets Life in Fraser’s Magazine
An excerpt from Fraser's Magazine portrays a poet’s life as a tranquil isle amid stormy worldly life. It contrasts serene landscapes with the unresting sea of public affairs and ends with a vision of beauty and calm that heals tears and renews strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Heaven
Fraser's Magazine
Buckinghamshire and Army Mutations in Parliament Fractions
May 30 list of parliamentary members for Buckingham and Chichester, plus numerous army appointments and exchanges across Dragoons, Foot regiments, and the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. Includes promotions by purchase, appointments to staff, and half pay shifts. Also notes chancellery appointment in Waitenah and sugar price data with other notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown Office
Buckingham
Thomas Francis Freemantle
Chichester
Arthur Lennox
Wat Orice
6Th Dragoons
Henry Stone
37Th Foot
Fleeming
9Th Light Dragoons
Cornet
Alexander Heawhtrey
Purchase
Colville
Te Poymssier
Sharp
2D Foot
Frederick John Felliott Payne
Hunter
Alexander Smith
17Th Foot
Macqueen
John Shaw Willes
Smith
27Th Foot
John Richard ‘Hedges Becher
Hamilton
Articromone
Beer i 29Th Foot
James Herbert Clay
59Th Foot
Espinasse
Foot
John Elphinstone Fleeming
Stone
46Th Foot
John Ellis Spilling
Moffatt
Henry Fuller
Sandwith
Spilling
John Hickinbotham Chambers
Robert Clifton Gordon
Peacock
49Th Foot
Henry Seymour Moore
Donneley Yiles
62D Foot
Bartley
Raphael Woolman Reade
M.D
Robinson
Stalf
Walter Tyler Bartley
Fulton
70Th Foot
John Brown
Taylor
William Robert Brereton
Brown
George Alfred Schreiber
Brereton
George Ryan
Schreiber
Walter Beresford Faunce
Sandeman
Charles Hoghton
Faunce
William Nash
Hoghton
Rifle Brigade
Robert Walpole
Saumarez
Henry Oldfield Bowles
Walpole
John Ferdinand Beckwith
Archase
Bowles
Arthur Lowther
Leutenant
Beckwith
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment
Charles John Colville
Edwards
Unarrachep
Charles Gore
Halfpay
John St. Vincent Saumarez
Alexander John Goldie
William Campbell
Brever
Alexander Murray Tulloch
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Charles Lionel Fitzgerald
Robertson
Henry Arthur Ternon
Fitzgerald
Waitenah
William Bickley
Sheffield
County of York
High Court of Chancery
Great Britain
Hixey Bicknelts
Grocers’ Company
Grocers’ Hall
J. Ridgway
Chester
B. Land
St Albans
Victualler
W.dethick
Temple Street
Whitefriars
H. R Harraden
Cambridge
Quiroga Bolivar Vittoria
John Anichini
St. Benet's Place
Gracechurch Street
J.W. Mardall
New Shoreham
Sussex
E. Tyndale
Ross
Herefordshire
J. Michell
Nottingham
T. Newton
Holbeach
Lincolnshire
R. Baxter
F. L. Horner
Manchester
T. Beech
Newcastle
Lyme
W. Lynn
Liverpool
J. and
S. Owen
E. P. Powell
Southampton
W. Gorton
St. Peter's Chambers
Cornhill
E. H. Foster
Hathern
Leicestershire
Hilton and Walsh
Darwen
Lancashire
H. Hilton
G. C Cawood
Sunderland
Hamberston and Frodsham
W. F. Geach
Pontypool
Monmouthshire
Brown and Twort
Upper Seymour Street
Euston Square
Winstanley
Blinkhorn
Kirkdale
W. Grinling
Laxfield
Suffolk
Gibson and Wilson
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Palmer and Bamford
Birmingham
S. Bamford
Morris and Barrow
Wigan
Horner and Blakey
Darlington
Durham
Corn Merchants
Driver and Co
Ironfounders
R. Driver
Whitings, Dixon, and Co
Southwark Bridge Road
Hatters’ Furriers
M. Whiting
Moses, Levy, and Co
Aldgate
Slopsellers
J. Aldam and Co
Elmton
Derbyshire
J. Aldam
J. Levy and Co
R. and T.robinson
Parr
Dirom and Co
Bombay
N. and H. Johnson
Repingon and Co
Cheapside
Fieming and Wilkins
Birth notices from Dublin and Edinburgh region
Birth announcements report a daughter born to the Countess of Desart in Dublin, a son to the Hon and Rev Robert Plunket at Avalanches, a daughter to the Hon Lt Col Whilbrahim in Portland Place, and a daughter to Lady Louisa Wardlaw near Edinburgh. A Whit Monday event at Newbold Comyn notes Susan Hobbs delivering four children, two boys and two girls, with one boy dying shortly after birth and one of the boys later dying. the two surviving girls were living. The family is described as poor industrious workers with a large household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland-square
Dublin
Countess of Desart
Avalanches
Robert Plunket
Portland-place
Whilbrahim
Whitehill
Edinburgh
Louisa Wardlaw
Newbold Comyn
Warwick
Somerville
Susan Hobbs
Michael Hobbs
Chiswick
Bowerbank
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Central Criminal Court
Upper
Marylebone-street
Newgate
Home Office
J. Graham
Davis
Alderman Musgrove
Crowch
Crouch
Sheriff Musgrove
Foundling Hospital
Rousseau
Sandys
Newman
Musgrove and Moon
Anderton and Barrett
Cope
Wright
the London Gazettes
Mayenne
Jack Sheppard
Tarporley
Northwich
Dick Turpin
Jonathan Wild
Tom King
Nathaniel Shaw
Captain Sheppard
Macclesfield
Delamere Forest
Chester Courant
Margate
Elphege de Gaesebeke
Bruges
Biller
Thomas Hirham
Lsq
Charleston
Southarolina
Kemptown
John Engall
Her Majesty's Home Park
Windsor
Rome
Phemas Aubin
Tuscany
Carlton-house-terrace
William Creckford
Highfield
Admiral Ollis
Romsey
Hampshire
John Young
Glenbeigh
County Kerry
Johanna Riordan
Hart of
Frederick
Elizabeth Villiers
The
Hague
William Gustaaf Frederick de Reede de Ginkle
Hendela Eleanor
M. Barcel
James Cockle
Bicbat
New ‘Ormond Street
London
Mr. White
Piccadilly
Lefay
Jean Letay
J. W. Stirling
White
N.B
United Kingdom
Ppark
Mottershead and Co
Tomas Bartow
Newbold
Charlton Dispensary
Old Parr
Mee
Thomas
James
Martha Barlow
Hale
F. Bownown
Jons Batowin
Brent
Devon
ALSE
Thomas Roling
Halse
John Elliott
Sen
Jon Menning
William Pearse
Henry Goodman
Arthur Langworthy
Thomas Rolins
Barclay and Son
Farringdon Street
Hallett
High Holborn
Pront
Straud
King
Blackfriars Road
Sanger
Oxford-street
John ‘Ston
Ollaway
Guy's
Metropolitan
King’s College
Charing-cross
William Brooke
Union-street
Southwark
Deponent
Metropolitan Hospital
King'’s College Hospital
Guy's Hospital
Charing
City of London
Joan Price
Temple-bury
SRS
Brodie and CO
Great Charle-street
Messie
Brodie and’ Co
Great Charles-street
Wood
High-street
Guest
Bull-street
Watts
Snowhill
Sherwood
Gilert
Piper
Paternoster-row
Weght
Skinner
Cirencester
Roberts
Derby
Fryer
Heming
Stourbridge
Ferriss and Score
Cristol
Jeyes
Northaimpton
Newton
Churchestreet
Hosa
Nightengale
Chronicle-office
Statter
Oxford
Jones
Hanley
Stephen Knapp
Coventry
Gibson
Creewell
Kidsterminster
Cualdicott
Wolverhampton
Keene
Gare Diner
Glouceter
Harper
Cooper
Leicester
D’eyville
Parker
Hereford
Oussey
Shrewsbury
Great Charles Street
Fa Y-Row
Brodie
Brodie and Coty
Melijcine Howes
Lusdon
Paul
Cummins
Aldersgate School of Medicine
Ley
Bedei
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Bega
John Fox
C. King
Blackfriars-road
We Fox
Paii
Max
L, Perry
Samuel La’mert
Sergeon
Bedford-Street
Bedfordsquanr
University of Edinburgh
London Hospital Medical Society
Chancery
Ulusband
Manchester Chronicle
La’Mert
Bedford-square
J. Lucas and Co
Newman-street
Brittain
J. Gordon
Leadermall-street
G. Manell
King-street
Southwars
C. Westerton
Park-side
Knightsbridge
Noble
Chancery-lane
Huett
Princes-street
Worcester-square
H. Phillips
T. Lawler
Courier-office
Rt. Ann's Square
W. Howell
Dale-street
W. Wood
W. and
H. Robinson
Greenside-street
I. Price
New Bell’s
Messrs. Lucas and Co
Newman Street
Cass
I. L. Cuatis and Company
Medical Bookseller
Courntry-street
Haymarket
Hanway
Barth
Brydges-street
Strand
Mann
Gornhill
Strange
Paternoster-raw
Nelson-street
Glasgow
Strachan
Aberteen
Messrs. Curtis
Ingland
Easex
Herts Mercury
Age and
Argus
Messrs. Curtis and Company
Frith Street
Soho Square
Hodlerefield
Rochdale
Manuchester
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