Shameful Victorians

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ktmbiker58

ktmbiker58

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While searching for some local information I found an online archive for sentences handed down to local miscreants in 1839, poor William Parry got 1 month inside for neglecting to milk a cow, what can I say about the 2 Elizas - </snigger>

What is really sad is how many were sentenced to hard labour for stealing small amounts of food, and how young some were, 11 years old sentenced to 1 month hard labour for running away from the workhouse the same sentence handed down to a man who beat up his wife.

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Drago

Drago

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Ooh, I can see the way this will go. I'm out.
 
wiggydiggy

wiggydiggy

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Let's take it back a few years, didn't we once sentence a cloud to death by stoning. Several people were killed when all the stones came back down?
 
annedonnelly

annedonnelly

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My great grandmother was sentenced to 3 (or 6?) months hard labour for stealing a pound of butter. She was pregnant at the time and her baby was born in prison.

Though the guy she was hooked up with at the time was always in trouble judging by the court reports at the time so I suspect she wasn't just stealing because she was desperate for food.
 
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ktmbiker58

ktmbiker58

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Drago said:
Ooh, I can see the way this will go. I'm out.
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But you'll miss the best bits - despite the number of bicycles that must have been on the road I haven't found a single case of 'wanton and furious riding, however, the Victorian equivalent of the Corsa teenagers were about with several teens prosecuted for thundering along the Cainscross road in a horse and cart without holding onto the reins ^_^ I bet that law hasn't been repealed !

One poor guy was fined for 'easing himself' in the street 💩 - that would be classed performance art today :laugh:

Turnips were most at risk of being stolen - perhaps Baldrick was in the area - and the vicar took exception to having some of his pears stolen with a couple of lads feeling the full force of the law for that!

Considering the sheer numbers employed in the local mills there are very few cases of theft from the mills -
 
Vapin' Joe

Vapin' Joe

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The youngest person sentenced to death in this country was a seven year old girl, what it was for I can't recall. There is no record as to whether the execution was carried out, most death sentences being commuted to a spell in prison.
 
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DRM

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West Yorks
ktmbiker58 said:
One poor guy was fined for 'easing himself' in the street 💩 - that would be classed performance art today :laugh:
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Reminds me of this

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Mind if I pop outside & foul your pavement! :ohmy:
Edit Re the 2 Eliza's
" What you charging tonight?"
"6 pence ha'penny for acts of appalling depravity, 1'6d to fuddle duddle with me watcha ma call it's, & 2 shillings to waddle up me whoops a daisy,"
"What do I get for tuppence?"
"MUM!" :eek::laugh:
Oh and an all expenses paid trip to Australia!!!
 
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Chromatic

Chromatic

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ktmbiker58 said:
While searching for some local information I found an online archive for sentences handed down to local miscreants in 1839, poor William Parry got 1 month inside for neglecting to milk a cow, what can I say about the 2 Elizas - </snigger>

What is really sad is how many were sentenced to hard labour for stealing small amounts of food, and how young some were, 11 years old sentenced to 1 month hard labour for running away from the workhouse the same sentence handed down to a man who beat up his wife.

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I live in that neck of the woods and I know a Niblett, I wonder if they are descendents of Danl Niblett Esq?
 
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