Tag: GRO0511

Western Times: Wednesday 21st November 1883

Mistaken Identity: George Coniam and Alfred Steer, labourers of Bovey Tracey were charged with a similar offence on the 13th November: Mr. Boxall prosecuted; Mr. Templar defended. Steer did not attend, and it was stated that he was gone to Bristol to work on the Severn Tunnel. William Lock stated that the defendants were in his master’s plantation watching a rabbit burrow when he saw them. After watching them for some time he made a movement that disturbed them, and they ran away. Steer threw away a ferret bag, which the witness picked up and he then went to the burrow and took out the ferret produced, and also a rabbit … (defense of mistaken identity) … John Pinsent of Bovey, who had been working at the Severn Tunnel, was at his lodgings when Steer arrived about half past eight on Tuesday night. He left to come back to Bovey on Friday morning, and Steer was still there; he had not been served with a summons. The Bench thought the plea of mistaken identity fully established and dismissed the case. Mr. Templar applied under the circumstances that the defendants should be allowed his costs for the witnesses. This was granted – 12s being allowed.

Rural Authority until the hospital projected by the Urban Authority should have been completed, provided satisfactory terms could be agreed upon. After some discussion the correspondence was referred to the Hospital Committee, with instructions to report to the Board.

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GRO0511 Bristol: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902 (?)

Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser: Thursday March 6th, 1856: issue 4961

Thomas Ware (25, R.,) was charged with stealing and John Pinsent (22, IMP) with feloniously receiving six pecks of chaff and bran, the property of Mr. Allen Searall, jun. Ware was Mr. Searall’s waggoner, and on the 16th of January stopping at the Union Inn, Bovey Tracey, with his team, he was seen to give Pinsent half a bagful of the chaff and bran with which he had been supplied by his master to feed his horses. Guilty: ten weeks imprisonment each.

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GRO0511 Bristol: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902

Western Times: Saturday 1st March 1856

Devon Intermediate Sessions: These sessions commenced at the Castle of Exeter on Tuesday, before M.B. Beare, Esq., (chairman), J. Sillifant, D.B. Davy, R.S. Gard, C. Gordon, Esqrs. and Rev. J. Huyshe … Thomas Ware, (25 r.), was charged with stealing, and John Pinsent (32, imp.), with receiving six pecks of chaff and bran, from Allen Searell, junr., his master: Mr. Holdsworth prosecuted; Mr. Carter defended the prisoners. The prosecutor was a wood-drawer at Buckfastleigh, and the prisoner Ware was a wagoner in his employ. On the 16th of January, Ware stopped at the Union Inn, Bovey Tracey, with his master’s horse and wagon, and placed the horses in a stable behind. In the evening a servant in the inn, named Harvey, was standing in the passage, when according to the statement, she saw Ware come from the stable with a bag half full of something, and hand it to the prisoner Pinsent, who carried it off. Harvey communicated this fact P.C. Otway, of Bovey Tracey, and that officer apprehended Pinsent with the bag, which he found to contain chaff and bran, and which Ware said were the sweepings of the manger. Horse droppings were afterwards found with the hay and chaff in the prisoner’s bag. Mr. Bere, (barrister) and Mr. Couch, innkeeper of Chudleigh Knighton, gave Pinsent, and the prosecutor gave Ware a good character. The prisoners were both found guilty, but recommended to mercy and the Court sentenced them to ten weeks’ imprisonment. 

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GRO0511 Bristol: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902

Western Times: Saturday 23rd September 1854

Newton Abbot: County Court:  Saturday: (W. M. Praed, Esq.): Pinsent v Pinsent: Plaintiff a brewer of Newton, summoned defendant, a labourer of Bovey for 6d for 17 gallons of beer supplied, at 6d per gallon. Defendant’s wife appeared, and stated that she was living as servant with Mr. Steer, since dead, and the beer was for him. She merely gave the order because her master was not able to do it. His Honour said there was no proof of the defendant knowing anything about the matter, and as the plaintiff had taken no pains to see whether it was ordered by the defendant: he should nonsuit the plaintiff. 

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GRO0227 Bristol: Elizabeth Loveys: 1817 -1884
GRO0511 Bristol: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901

Western Times: Saturday 23rd September 1854

Newton Abbot: County Court:  Saturday: (W. M. Praed, Esq.): Pinsent v Pinsent: Plaintiff a brewer of Newton, summoned defendant, a labourer of Bovey for 6d for 17 gallons of beer supplied, at 6d per gallon. Defendant’s wife appeared, and stated that she was living as servant with Mr. Steer, since dead, and the beer was for him. She merely gave the order because her master was not able to do it. His Honour said there was no proof of the defendant knowing anything about the matter, and as the plaintiff had taken no pains to see whether it was ordered by the defendant: he should nonsuit the plaintiff. 

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GRO0227 Bristol: Elizabeth Loveys: 1817 -1884
GRO0511 Bristol: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901

Western Times: Saturday 23rd September 1854

Newton Abbot: County Court:  Saturday: (W. M. Praed, Esq.): Pinsent v Pinsent: Plaintiff a brewer of Newton, summoned defendant, a labourer of Bovey for 6d for 17 gallons of beer supplied, at 6d per gallon. Defendant’s wife appeared, and stated that she was living as servant with Mr. Steer, since dead, and the beer was for him. She merely gave the order because her master was not able to do it. His Honour said there was no proof of the defendant knowing anything about the matter, and as plaintiff had taken no pains to see whether it was ordered by defendant: he should nonsuit the plaintiff.  

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GRO0227 Bristol: Elizabeth Loveys: 1817 -1884
GRO0511 Bristol: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902
GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901

Western Times: Saturday 26th August 1854

Newton Abbot: County Court: Endacott v Pinsent: Plaintiff is a carrier from Bovey to Exeter, and the amount sued for was 7s, for carriage of defendant and wife and a large hamper. Defendant had refused to pay, because he alleged that the hamper had been thrown down by plaintiff’s carelessness, and property, consisting of jelly glasses, wax doll case, and picture frames, had been destroyed. (The articles were part of a bequest of the late Mr. Steer to Miss Christophers, of Heavitree). The case was adjourned for further evidence. There was also a cross summons for the injury and loss arising from the goods being spoiled in the hamper. 

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GRO0511 Bristol: John Pinsent: 1823 – 1902