Rebecca and riots shadow 1843 Newcastle Emlyn unrest
The county is unsettled as magistrates sit privately amid riot charges. Prisoners including Jonathan Jones and several Lewis names are committed for riot. Rebecca and her daughters threaten violence at Newcastle Emlyn workhouse with letters in Welsh and English. The mob, armed and in female dress, swarms gates and gates are torn down as authorities brace for further clashes. a £30 reward is offered for toll box vandals.
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T i Pi
Jonathan Jones
Howell Lewis
Jonathan Lewis
David Lewis
David Davies
John Jones
John Harris
Talog Mill
Rebecca
Newcastle Emlyn Workhouse
Miss Brown
Newcastle Emlyn
Hall
Welchmen
Blacmant Lane
Newcastle and Carmarthen Trust
Hundred of Elves
E. C. Storp Hart
Emlyn Cottage
Rebeccaites
Mydrim
St. Clears
Castellyrhingil Gete
Cross Hands
Llandilo
Rwans Bridge Gate
Llandarag Bar
Porthryd
Carmarthen
Maes Wheland Gate
Coalbrook
Postyberem
Kidwelly Trust
William Lewis
J. J. Stacer
4Th Dragoons
Parlby
73D Foot
Love
Convict Cunningham guilty of theft and seven years’ transport
At the Central Criminal Court Abraham Cunningham alias Thomas McGregor, a 36-year-old Woolwich dockyard convict keeper, was found guilty of feloniously stealing a £5 Bank of Scotland note from Thomas Campbell. The prose cution traced a tangled scheme of letters and forged promises to win release, with the jury also considering ownership of the misused funds. The recorder ordered seven years’ transportation.
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Rosomne
Abraham Cunningham
Thomas M‘gregor
Woolwich Dockyard
Bank of Scotland
Thomas Campbell
Elizabeth Laing Campbell
Joseph Hanley
Adolphus
Waddington
R. Gurney
M‘gregor
Edinburgh
Woolwich
M'Gregor
J. Graham
Campbell
Parry
Shakspeare's
Bland
Gregor
Jones
Davis
Clarkson
Her Majesty
Recorder
Hanley
Special Commission
Giuseppe Azzopardi
Rega Sluyk
Smyrne
Great Britain
Smyrna
Baron Gurney
Harker
Rosine
William Barker Kilpin
Shoreditch
Mr. Bodkin
Mr. Clarkson
Messrs. Bodkin
Br. Clarkson
Aeid
Touxspay
Diamon Rospery
Justice Patteson
William Howard
Hawkins
Benjamin Smith
Henry Turner
Doane
Mesera
Bodkin
Duke-street
Lincoln
Ianfielda
Turner
Rothschild
T’amer
Hawking
Isaac Terry
Cuance
Forbery
James Hancock
Henry Pownall
Samuel Brazier
Sergeant Bompas
Walter Watts
Sir C. Marshall
Roe
Guiseppe Azzopardi
H. Milla
J. Tooke
E. Morris
J. Pierce
T. Oliver
Wright
W. H. Hyde
P. Harrington
W. Dabster
T. Ward
T. Bonham
B. Thomas
H. Taylor
W. Davis
T. Welch
T. Adams
J. Brady
W. Holmes
T. Jones
W. Morgan
Alias Williams
J. Coles
W. Morgan Brown
Thos
Newry
James Lovell
J. Dring
Seduction and trial at the Mansion House riotous session
A metropolitan policeman reports to the lord mayor on a distressed young woman who tried to procure poison and twice attempted suicide after being seduced by J Thorpe. The lord mayor scolds Thorpe and forces a marriage proposal as condition for the woman’s safety, while two chimney sweeps face a cleaning punishment for assault and public nuisance as the court jokes about their scrubbing.
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Tse Inox Tsapg
Messrs
Harford
Davis
Ebbw-Vale Company
Bailey
Peel
Arkwright
Jervis
Watts
Bompas
Justice Patteson
Johanna Catlin
St. Clement Danes
Ryland
Fitch
Harris
John
Clement’s Lane
Philip Moss
Clarkean
Mrsr. Payne
Moses Raz
Elizabeth Howard
Joseph Moses
Wilkins
Gray's Inn Lane
Mr. Moses
Gray's Inn-lane
Eagle Court
Strand
Moses
Mr. Wilkins
Stepney
Howard
Elite Rising
Queen Square
Steinburg
Clerkenwell
James Aberdine
Elizabeth Aberdine
Francis-street
Backfields
Westminster
Witness
Yokaili
Mary Tromble
Bond
Manchester
Smith
West
Mr. Combe
Barlow
Combe
House of Correction
James Croft
Imperial Gas Company
Gray's Inn-road
High Folborn
Worship Street
Juin Holland
Broughton
William Brown
Ayre-street
Bethnal-green
Fuller-street
34 H
Lockett
Rowland
Broughan
Charles Alphans
Bingham
Mary Wilkins
Chapel-street
Hackney-road
London Docks
Southampton
Misa Wilkins
Mansion House
Sepuchon
J. Thorpe
Ender
London Bridge
Thorpe
Compter
Lord Meyer
Mayne
Ras‘cals
Sam
Tivy
Gill
Lynn
Gooch
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Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy
Sergeant Stephen
Gadbury
Samuel Homfrey
Bristol
Harford and Davies
Janes Crocker
Sirrhowy
Ebbw Vale
Cobden
Penendeneath
Anti Slavery Society
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
Exeter Hall
Lord Morpeth
Hawes
America
Cuba
Scoble
Tappin
New York
Texas
France
Egypt
England
Elizabeth
Hameden
John Hampden
Chalworth Field
Berks
Oxford
Buckingham
Hampden
Lord Nugent
Ireland
Earl of Wicklow
Her
United Kingdom
Downshire
Thomond
Ely
Devon
Wicklow
Clare
Courtown
Donoughmore
Charleville
Glengall
Stradbroke
Belmore
Lucan
Lorton
Bandon
Crofton
Bloomfield
Dunsany
Beresford
Blayney
Carbery
Castlemaine
Messrs. E. Taylor
M.P
Claude Hamilton
J. Irving
Courtenay
M. Archdall
E. Conolly
Bernard
E. Hayes
J- Boyd
H. Bruen
M. Bateson
E. Grogan
Quintin Dick
C. B. Baldwin
M P
W. Ormsby Gore
W. R. Ormaby Gore
J. H. Hamilton
W. H. Gregory
E. J. Shirley
W. Verner
Northland
A. Lefroy
C. B. Leslie
F. Shaw
George A. Hamilton
Adare
George Wyndham
Petworth
Alex. Perceval
Robert Peel
Whitehall
Lord
Marquis of
Duke of Wellington
Sir Robert Peel
Augusta
Central Criminal Court
Hishhildren
Barfoot
James
Westminster Hospital
H. B.L. Brook
Thames
Edward French
Charles French
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