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P is for Portobello

19 Monday Apr 2021

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2021, crime, Palliser, Wexford

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My sixth great grandfather was a soldier and Irish landholder named Thomas Palliser (abt 1661 – 1756). Born in Yorkshire, he came to Ireland with the English Army during the Williamite War of 1688 – 1691. In 1689 he was a Captain of the Grenadiers in Sir Thomas Gower’s Regiment of Foot which was later merged with the regiment of Lord Drogheda. Palliser is mentioned several times in George Story‘s An impartial history of the wars of Ireland : page 14 at Newry, page 59 captured some prisoners, page 69 captured in an ambush in April 1691 and taken prisoner of war; he escaped from Limerick in June. He served through the second siege of Limerick and was severely wounded. When his regiment was disbanded in 1698 he went on to half-pay with the rank of major. He retired not long after 1704 having been commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel in 1702.

Palliser was High Sheriff of County Wexford in 1700. In 1702 he was given a grant of the Great Island (Greatisland near Kilmokea), Wexford, by James, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.

Palliser built himself a mansion named Portobello near Campile, County Wexford. Campile is just under six kilometers from Greatisland and fourteen kilometres from the town of New Ross.

Portobello house has since burnt down, probably in the late 1700s, and no trace survives.

In 1746 Palliser, then aged about 85, was robbed at his mansion by James Freney (1719–1788) , an infamous Irish highwayman. Oddly enough, in 1754 Freney published a history of his misadventures, with the title The Life and Adventures of James Freney, commonly called Captain Freney. In his book he refers to the robbery of Colonel Palliser.

The cover of the 1814 edition of Freney’s autobiography retrieved through Google Books

Freney and his gang made off with:

  • A purse of 90 guineas and a 4 pound piece
  • Two moidores, a gold coin which was the principal coin current in Ireland at the beginning of the 18th century; two moidores was worth 30 shillings
  • Some small gold
  • A large glove containing 28 guineas in silver
  • A quantity of plate worth 300 pounds
  • A gold watch

Freney was proclaimed an outlaw in January 1749 and surrendered three months later. Lord Carrick, a lawyer, helped Freney work out a deal with the chief justices in which Freney would be allowed to emigrate. Presumably it was feared that his execution would give him the status of a folk hero and lead to further disturbances.

It is not known where or how long Freney spent abroad, but by 1776 he was once more in Ireland, where he found employment as a customs official at the port of New Ross, County Wexford, a post he held until his death in 1788. Freney was buried in Inistioge , County Kilkenny.


From page 30 of The life and adventures of James Freney, commonly called Captain Freney. From the time of his first entering the highway, in Ireland, to the time of his surrender, being a Series of Five Years remarkable Adventures. Written by himself. First published 1754 :

In some time after Bulger came to pay me a visit, and we concluded to take to the high road, and were three days on the Ross road, but met with no prey worth mentioning. And in a short time after, we met with one Thomas Houlahan and one Patrick Hacket, otherwise called Bristeen, who were experienced sheep-stealers, and particular acquaintances of Bulger’s, who saluted Bulger kindly, and asked him how he was: To which he replied, that he would do well enough if he had a little more money; and asked them how they fared, for that he had not seen them a long time. They answered, they removed to the county of Wexford, but that they were uneasy to know how their correspondents in that country were (meaning the country of Kilkenny ) and further said; that there was plenty of money in the country they came from. They also informed him, that there was a gentleman, one colonel Palliser, who had a great deal of money, and plate, which they heard he kept in his house. I was during the time of their discourse some distance from them; upon which Bulger came up to me, and told me, that the persons I saw him talking to, were friends of his, for whose honesty and integrity he would engage, and then related the whole information they gave him of colonel Palliser’s plate, &c. Upon which, I agreed we should rob the colonel, and came up to Hacket and Houlahan, and saluted them kindly, and soon concluded upon a night to put our design of robbing the colonel in execution, I then asked them if they knew the inside of the house, or how many servants were in it ? But they said not, but that they knew the way to it, and no more. I soon said, that as we did not know how many were in the house, that we should take the more men with us. Upon which I immediately sent Bulger to Kinehan’s, to Burnt-Church, to inquire of him, where John Motley was. He soon returned with Motley, and one Commons. I had also one Matthew Grace another Cotter under Mr. Robbins, whom I had corrupted, and prepared for the purpose. And then Bulger, Motley, Grace, Commons, Houlahan and Hacket, (who were our spies) and I sent to Balley-cough-soust, in the county of Kilkenny, which was the place at which we intended to settle and advise which way to effect our design, and expedite our journey. Upon which I concluded, that two only should go in at a time, for fear, if we went in a body, we might be suspected. But we had a long debate, each man refusing to carry the arms, for fear of being suspected going over the ferry. But at length I contrived it so, that I got a bag and put the arms into it, which were three cases of pistols, and rolled hay about them, and then Grace agreed to carry them in the bag, as if he was going to Ross market, which he accordingly did, and got to the house in which I appointed to meet him undiscovered. When I came over the Ferry, I went to the house appointed, where my companions were stationed two in a company, the better to avoid suspicion, and they they did not seem to know each other. I then asked the landlady had she a stable for my mare ? she said the had : upon which I went to the stable to see whether there was hay and litter for my mare, but found it was very dirty, of which I told the landlady, and that I would send my mare down to Mr.Brahan’s, as I was known there, and could get her out at any hour, without any room for suspicion. t then took care to go into the next room to my companions, and called in the landlord to drink with me, and finding the proper time for our departure at hand, I walked out into the kitchen where Grace was, and spoke to Grace, as follows: ” But is not this Grace ? how long are you here ? how are all the neighbours ?,When do you intend going home ? What business had you here ?” To which he answered, they were all well, and that he came with some things to market.

In a little time I found an opportunity, and gave Grace the whisper to desire the rest to go on, two by two, a part of the road, and that one of the spies should go down to Brahan’s, under pretence of taking care of my mare, and that the other spy should go with my companions to direct them. When it was duskish, I went down to Mr. Brahan’s, called for a bottle of wine, and soon after desired the hostler to draw out my mare, for that I intended to go a little further. I soon mounted with my spy behind me, and had not rode far before I overtook the rest of my companions; we then joined company till we got near Mr. Palliser’s House, where I fixed the men in a safe place, and took one of the spies down towards the house, and came to near the house as to see the light of the candles. I then took a survey of the front of the house and rooms, that by the quenching of the candles, I might the better judge where the colonel and his men lay. I waited for some time near the house fronting the rooms, and in a short time saw one of the colonel’s servants lighting him to bed, and therefore judged what part of the house the colonel lay in. Some time afterwards I observed a light above stairs, by which I judged the servants were going to bed; and soon after observed that the candles were all quenched, by which I assured myself, they were all gone to bed. I then came back to where the men were, and appointed Bulger, Motley and Commons to go in along with me, but Common answered, that he never had been in any house before, where there were arms; upon which I asked the son of a whore, what business he had there, and swore I would as soon shoot him as look at him, and at the same time cocked a pistol to his breast, but the rest of the men prevailed upon me to leave him at the back of the house, where he might run away when he thought proper.

I then asked Grace, where did he choose to be posted, he answered ‘that he would go where I pleased to order him,’ for which I thanked him ; we then immediately came up to the house, lighted our candles and blackened our faces, I then placed Commons and Houlahan at the back of the house, to prevent any person from coming out that way; and placed Hacket on my mare, well armed, at the front; and I then broke one of the windows with a sledge, whereupon Bulger, Motley, Grace, and I got in, upon which I ordered Motley and Grace to go up stairs, and Bulger and I would stay below, where we thought the greatest danger would be, but I immediately upon second consideration, for fear Motley or Grace should be daunted, desired Bulger to go up with them, and when he had fixed matters above, to come down, as I judged the colonel lay below. I then went to the room where the colonel was, and burst open the door, upon which he said, odds-wounds, who is there ? to which I answered, a friend, Sir, upon which he said, you lie by G– d, you are no friend of mine, I then said that I was, and his relation also, and that if he viewed me close he would know me, and begged of him not to be angry; upon which, I immediately seized a bullet gun and case of pistols, which I observed hanging up in his room. I then quitted his room, and walked round the lower part of the house, thinking to meet some of the servants, whom I thought would strive to make their escape from the men who were above, and meeting none of them, I immediately returned to the colonel’s room, where I no sooner entered, than he desired me to get out for a villain, and asked me why I bred such disturbance in his house that time of night ; at the same time I snatched his britches from under his head, wherein I got a small purse of gold, and said that abuse was not fit treatment for me, who was his relation, and that it would hinder me of calling to see him again; I then demanded the key of his desk, which stood in his room; he answered, he had no key, upon which I said, I had a very good key, at the same time giving the desk a stroke with the sledge which burst it open, wherein I got a purse of ninety guineas, a four pound piece, two moidores, some small gold, and a large glove, with twenty eight guineas in silver.

By this Time Bulger and Motley came down stairs to me, after rifling the house above, we then observed a closet inside his room, which we soon entered, and got therein a basket, wherein there was plate to the value of three hundred pounds.

There happened to be a wedding near the colonel’s house that night, from whence there was a man and a woman coming at the same time we were in the house, whom Hackett spied, and pursued, but to no purpose ; upon which, Hackett informed me thereof, at which I told him, I admired that as there was three of them abroad, that they would let them escape, and said I would pay them according to their behaviour; I then considering that they might raise the country, took my leave of Mr. Palliser, telling him that I forgave him the abuse he gave me, and was his humble servant.

We quitted the house, and came back again to Ross, where we arrived a little before day, and concluded we could not get over the Ferry there with safety, so we took the road towards Grauge, and never stopped till we came to Poulmounty Wood,,within within two Miles of Grauge, and it was then clear day. I then sat down and paid each man according to his deserts, I then gave them directions to divide themselves, that they should not go any way through the country; upon which Motley said, that he and Common would go through the country, as if with a view of buying pigs. I hid the arms in the wood, after I sent all the men away except Grace, whom I shewed where  I hid them, that he might know where to find them when I should have occasion; then I left the wood alone, and rid to Grauge, where I breakfasted heartily, and rested for some time.

…

From page 148

He then sent me to Kilkenny Goal, and at the summer assizes following James Bulger , Patrick Hackett, otherwise Bristeen, Martin Millea, John Stack, Felix Donnelly, Edmond Kenny, and James Larrassey were tried, convicted and executed; and at Spring assizes following, George Roberts was tried for receiving colonel Palliser’s gold watch, knowing it to be stolen, but was acquitted, on account of exceptions taken to my pardon, which prevented my giving evidence. At the following assizes, when I had got a new pardon, Roberts was again tried for receiving the tankard, ladle and silver spoons from me, knowing them to be stolen, and was convicted and executed. At the same assizes, John Reddy, my instructor, and Michael Millea, were also tried, convicted and executed.

Then Lord Carrick and counsellor Robbins, in order to enable me, with my family to quit this kingdom, proposed a subscription to be set a-foot, in order to raise a sum of money for that purpose; and it accordingly was, but the gentlemen of the country refused to contribute, and therefore that scheme came to nothing. Therefore to enable me to quit a kingdom which is tired of me, and which I do not chuse to live in, if I can avoid it, I have been advised to try whether the publication of my past life, will enable me to take myself and my family to some foreign country, and try to earn our bread in some industrious way, and hope the services done my native country by Lord Carrick’s spirit and resolution, roused up by my means, will make some amends for my former transgressions.

Sources

  • The life and adventures of James Freney, commonly called Captain Freney. From the time of his first entering the highway, in Ireland, to the time of his surrender, being a Series of Five Years remarkable Adventures. Written by himself. Printed and sold by S. Powell, for the author, MDCCLIV. [1754]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CW0100325593/ECCO?u=nla&sid=ECCO&xid=666312d9  also the 1814 edition viewed through Google Books The Life and Adventures of James Freney, commonly called Captain Freney
  • Cavenagh, W. O. “Castletown Carne and Its Owners (Continued).” The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 2, no. 1, 1912, pp. 34–45. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25514203.

Wikitree: Thomas Palliser

Brandy for the clerk

25 Friday Oct 2019

Posted by Anne Young in Castlemaine, Champion de Crespigny, court case, crime, GSV, Trove

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From time to time I look over various online resources for my family tree to see if anything interesting has been added. Recently I went back to the Genealogical Index of Names, an eclectic database of personal names from material in the Genealogical Society of Victoria library and elsewhere.

Among the 103 items for the name Crespigny I noticed:

CRESPIGNY, P C (CASTLEMAINE). Castlemaine, Victoria Court records 09 JUN 1853 PETER ROBINSON CASE; Offence: STOLEN BOTTLE BRANDY; Status: victim

The more detailed record has:

CRESPIGNY, P C (CASTLEMAINE)
Event Court records
Date 09 JUN 1853
Place: Castlemaine, Victoria
Source: Victorian ‘Argus’ court reports 1851-1856 [Includes victims, witnesses,
jurors and accused]
Author/compiler: Button, Marion.
Comment: PETER ROBINSON CASE; Offence: STOLEN BOTTLE BRANDY; Status: victim

P.C. (Philip Champion) Crespigny was my great grandfather. I hadn’t noticed this incident before.

There was a report of the theft in the digitised newspapers that can be retrieved through Trove, but the text-recognition software had done a poor job of transcribing the faint image of the newspaper. The extracted text was quite garbled; no wonder I hadn’t seen it when I’d searched on Trove before for ‘Crespigny’.

The incident gives me a little bit more information about Philip Crespigny’s life on the goldfields. To be living in a tent probably means that his wife and children were not with him at that time and had stayed behind in Melbourne.

Crespigny Castlemaine larceny 1853

Crespigny Castlemaine larceny 1853 b

NORTHERN COURT OF GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS. (1853, June 9). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 5. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4793362

 

Peter Robinson, accused of stealing the brandy, was tent-keeper to Mr Crespigny, resident Gold Commissioner. He was found not guilty.

Philip Champion Crespigny was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Gold Fields on 18 November 1852 (Gazetted 14 October 1853). When gold was discovered in great quantity in the colony, the governments of New South Wales and then Victoria followed British law at and asserted the right of the Crown to all gold that was found, requiring anyone who sought to mine it must hold a licence. Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners were appointed to administer each new field, to adjudicate disputes and, most important, to collect payments for the licences.

Crespigny license February 1853 Loddon

License no. 144. Issued to George Bencraft, 05 February 1853. Issued by Commissioner P. C. Crespigny. State Library of Victoria Collection (H41033/19)

nla.obj-135588436-1

Mt. Alexander gold diggings, 1853 watercolour by William Bentley in the collection of the National Library of Australia retrieved from from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135588436 [Mt Alexander diggings were at Castlemaine]

 

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Sepia Saturday: burglary

13 Friday Jan 2017

Posted by Anne Young in Adelaide, crime, Cudmore, Sepia Saturday

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This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt picture reminded me of a story my grandmother Kathleen told about her parents returning home one evening and finding a burglar in the house.

Musee McCord Museum : Alexander Ramsay’s Paint Store, Recollet Street, Montreal, QC, 1868. The left hand image is a detail from the big picture.

My father also retold the story in his biography of Arthur Murray Cudmore (1870-1951), part of Chapter 7 of For the Love of the Land: The History of the Cudmore Family, compiled by Elsie Ritchie in 2000.

A man broke in [at home] but was disturbed by the family returning. The intruder took refuge under a bed on the upper floor, but his hiding place could be seen from the doorway because of a mirror. “Arthur, get your gun!” urged his wife. “You can’t shoot a man when he’s under a bed”, was the reply. Rather than await the outcome of the debate, the burglar jumped through the window, slid down a connecting roof and made his escape. The few pieces he had taken were recovered later.

 

The house of my great grandparents at 64 Pennington Terrace North Adelaide. Photograph  from Google Streetview.

The incident was reported in the local newspaper, though the story was a little bit different from my father’s account.

ROBBERIES REPORTED CLEARED UP (1931, July 7). Advertiser and Register (Adelaide, SA : 1931), p. 9. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35671047
HOUSEBREAKING ADMITTED (1931, July 16). Advertiser and Register (Adelaide, SA : 1931), p. 10. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35673028

Six years later there was another burglary from my great grandparents’ house.

THIEVES POSE AS PLUMBERS (1937, May 27). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 – 1954), p. 44. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92483295

 

T is for trial for theft

22 Friday Apr 2016

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2016, Champion de Crespigny, court case, crime

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Court records from the Old Bailey give insights into criminals, crimes and the victims of crime. Nearly 200,000 trials from London’s central criminal court dating from 1674 to 1913 have been digitised. Three quarters of the cases are for theft.

Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny (1805-1881) was my second cousin five times removed, the second youngest child of Sir William and Lady Sarah Champion de Crespigny; younger brother of Augustus and Heaton, about whom I wrote recently.

Herbert was a lawyer, educated at Cambridge. In 1822 he was admitted to the Middle Temple, one of the four inns of court entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers. He was called to the bar in 1832.

In 1838 Herbert was driving his gig, a light two-wheeled spring carriage pulled by one horse, in Weymouth Street, London. This street links High Street, Marylebone, and Harley Street and Portland Place.

Herbert’s carriage overturned and Herbert broke his leg. He was carried into a nearby house. He alleged that during the incident one of his assistants stole a key and some money from him.

A gig, c 1815-1830 – a few years before Herbert’s journey along Weymouth Street.
Oil painting of a Stanhope gig carrying two well-dressed gentlemen, drawn by a white horse. Gigs were used by people who often needed to make short quick journeys with minimum fatigue to the horse. From Wikimedia Commons.

2313. WILLIAM LYONS was indicted for stealing, on the 7th of September, 1 key, value 3d.; 3 shillings, 1 sixpence, and 1 four-penny piece; the goods and monies of Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny, from his person.
HERBERT JOSEPH CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY . I live at Ewell, in Surrey. On the 7th of September, I was driving my gig in Weymouth-street—my gig was overturned and I broke my leg in two places—I was carried on a shutter to a house, and when in the bed-room I saw the prisoner there—he helped to take off my things—I had a key and about three or four shillings in my waistcoat pocket—I looked very hard at the prisoner—he seemed to look as if I should know him—he wanted to take my pin out of my shirt—I would not let him—I asked if he was a tailor living near there who had done some things for me—he said he was—but he is not—he was taken for something else, and then my pockets were searched and this money was missed—there were two sixpences and a few-penny piece that I had marked, and this key of my writing desk—I had marked one sixpence and one fourpence, the other sixpence I had not marked, but I can swear to it.
ROBERT KEBRUNT . (police-constable D 56.) The prisoner was given to me—I found on him a sovereign and several shillings, sixpences, and four pence—I found these that are identified, and the key—he was taken on another charge.
Prisoner. I had been out drinking, and assisted to take the gentleman to the house—I did not know what I had about me then, but I did the next day—I said I had been taking various small change—I am a glove-cleaner—I picked up the diamond pin belonging to the gentleman, and gave it him—I was very much intoxicated when I was taken. Witness. He was drunk.
GUILTY . Aged 25.— Confined Six Months. (from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 21 April 2016), October 1838, trial of WILLIAM LYONS (t18381022-2313).)

The coins, 3 shillings, 1 sixpence, and 1 four-penny piece [a groat], seem small in value. Using a measuring worth calculator, in 2014, the relative value of £0 3s 10d from 1838lies between £15.44 to £641.90. The “real price” of the value of the coins is £15.44, obtained by multiplying £0.19 by the percentage increase in an index of the average cost of things a household buys from 1838 to 2014.The economic power value of those coins in income or wealth is calculated as £641.90 ($AUD1187). The economic power value calculation is based on the value relative to the total economy.

The theft of a key and $1,000 would not result in imprisonment for six months in the present day.

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P is for Plymouth’s peccancy protection payment provocation

18 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2016, Champion de Crespigny, court case, crime

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At N is for nuptials in Norwich I wrote about Heaton Champion de Crespigny (1796-1858), my second cousin five times removed.

Heaton’s mother, Lady Sarah Champion de Crespigny née Windsor, was the daughter of the 4th Earl of Plymouth, sister to the 5th Earl, and aunt to the 6th Earl. Heaton was thus a cousin to Other Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth (1789-1833).

Other Archer Windsor (1789–1833), 6th Earl of Plymouth. Portrait at Kelmarsh Hall. Image from http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/other-archer-windsor-17891833-6th-earl-of-plymouth-49153

In early October 1828 the Bath Chronicle reported that Heaton de Crespigny had fled to Paris to avoid being called as a witness against his former friend in the court case initiated by Heaton’s father, Sir William de Crespigny. I have previously written about the court case and the duel fought by Heaton.

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 2 October 1828 page 2 from FindMyPast.com.au

Image (and subsequent newspaper images) reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

© THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

It seems he was still in Paris through November 1828.

Salisbury and Winchester Journal 1 December 1828 page 2 retrieved through FindMyPast.com.au

Though the court case was still underway, it seems that in early December Heaton returned from Paris. On 10 December 1828 Heaton was committed for trial in Melton Mowbray for attempting to defraud the Earl of Plymouth.

From the Morning Chronicle of 12 December 1828, page 3:

Newspapers across England reported on the bizarre case. It was suggested that Heaton was in a state of derangement when he composed the letter to his cousin.

Evening Mail 15 December 1828 page 4 from FindMyPast.com.au

London Courier and Evening Gazette 18 December 1828 page 3 from http://search.findmypast.com.au

The story of Heaton’s arrest was revised later in December.

Hampshire Advertiser 20 December 1828 page 1 from FindMyPast.com.au

The next assizes were not due to be held until the following March. However, Heaton’s friends and family managed to have him moved from Leicester to London.

London Courier and Evening Gazette 22 December 1828 page 3 from FindMyPast.com.au

Heaton was granted bail in London and then taken to a lunatic asylum by his friends.

Bury and Norwich Post 31 December 1828 page 4 from FindMyPast.com.au

The Earl of Plymouth agreed to drop the charges against him if Heaton left England.

Royal Cornwall Gazette 3 January 1829 page 2 from FindMyPast.com.au

At the Leicester Assizes in August the case was finally dropped.

Evening Mail 17 August 1829 page 2 from FindMypast.com.au

During 1829 Heaton’s name was not out of the news, for the case between his father and Mr Long Wellesley still continued.

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  • O is for Old Bailey records concerning a court case involving Heaton’s father William
  • Sepia Saturday: coach rides concerning an attack on Heaton’s mother lady Sarah and one of her children while travelling in a coach

BRAVE BOY IN SHOOT-OUT WITH BUSHRANGER, LATEST NEWS

28 Thursday Jan 2016

Posted by Anne Young in Champion de Crespigny, crime, Talbot, Trove

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The bushranger Morgan shooting McGinnerty F Cubbitt – circa 1864 Wood engraving

In 1864, my great-great-grandfather, Philip de Crespigny (1850-1927), then only 14, took a shot at a prowler, missed, and was grazed on the shoulder when the suspicious-looking stranger fired back.

This anyway was how he reported the incident to his father, Philip Robert Champion Crespigny (1817-1889), the Talbot goldfields warden and police magistrate. A manhunt was begun, with the prowler initially thought to be ‘Mad Dog’ Morgan, a bushranger from the neighbouring colony of New South Wales.

DARING ATTEMPT TO MURDER THE SON OF MR P. C. CRESPIGNY, P.M. (1864, August 18). The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 – 1864), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66347371

The Melbourne Punch was more than a little sceptical:
(with a helpful note that the surname is pronounced Crepny)

THE CRESPIGNY LEGEND. (1864, August 25). Melbourne Punch (Vic. : 1855 – 1900), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176532918

and the Bendigo Advertiser frankly disbelieved the tale:

ANOTHER VERSION. (1864, August 25). Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 – 1918), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88006055

Philip Robert Champion Crespigny leapt to his son’s defence. His boy was telling the truth, he said, and he offered a reward of a hundred pounds for the apprehension of the prowler:

THE LATE ATTEMPT TO SHOOT MR. CRESPIGNY’S SON. (1864, August 31). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 7. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5747472
NEWS AND NOTES. (1864, September 10). The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 – 1864), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66347964

Nothing came of this, however, and Punch continued to milk the incident for laughs:

NOTES AND QUERIES. (1864, September 15). Melbourne Punch (Vic. : 1855 – 1900), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176533045

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  • Australian arrival of the Champion Crespigny family on the ‘Cambodia’ 31 March 1852
  • Wedding Wednesday: Philip Champion de Crespigny married Annie Frances Chauncy 25 October 1877
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O is for Old Bailey records

16 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2014, Champion de Crespigny, court case, crime, genealogical records

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I have written once before about the proceedings of the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, which are online at oldbaileyonline.org in a useful searchable format.

In my previous blog entry, at http://ayfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/george-bowyer-transported-for.html, I wrote about the theft of a pocket handkerchief from my fifth great uncle, Claude Crespigny. The thief was transported as a convict to Australia, which seems a very harsh punishment for a minor theft. It appears he did not survive the voyage.

In 1789 Claude Crespigny’s son, William (1765-1829), accused his former coachman, William Hayward, of stealing some used harness from him. (Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.0, 15 April 2014), January 1790, trial of WILLIAM HAYWARD (t17900113-104).)

The Old Bailey Sessions House by John Ellis, 1790. Image from http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/The-old-bailey.jsp

William Crespigny had dismissed his coachman and then travelled from London to his country house in Berkshire. Some weeks later he sent to his coach house in Little Portland Mews in London for the harness. The harness did not come. The harness, which had William’s crest on it, was probably about two or three months old.

The question in the trial was what arrangement he had made with his coachman.

When this coachman was engaged, did you make a bargain with him? – I did of course.

Does it happen to you, among the coachmen you have employed, to recollect the terms of that bargain? – Perfectly.

I will trouble you to state them: I believe at first he asked twenty six guineas? – I do not recollect.

This will be very important; I must trouble you to tax your recollection; I believe in the end, the standing wages agreed on, was twenty two guineas, together with other articles? – Yes.

One guinea for boots? – My memory does not serve me.

One guinea for breeches; does your memory serve you to that? – I cannot say.

Do you recollect whether he was to have the old wheels, in order to make up this sum? – I perfectly recollect he was not to have them; I never allowed either old wheels or old harnesses to any coachman; I do not remember that any thing was said about it.

Was any thing said about the old harness? – Nothing to my recollection; I can venture to say, to the best of my recollection, upon oath, that nothing was said; I mean to swear that if any thing was said, that I never agreed to it.

Explain to me what these articles were that were to make up the twenty-two guineas, to be twenty-six guineas? – I believe I gave him twenty-five guineas a year, to the best of my recollection; I do not keep such a very minute recollection.

I must not compliment away a man’s liberty? – I think it was twenty-five guineas a year.

Court. I understood you, the agreement was twenty-two guineas a year wages; what other agreement did you make besides? – I believe there were boots and breeches, and a number of et cetera’s which the coachmen generally have, but I will not say on my oath.

Mr. Garrow. Pray do not be in a hurry, Mr. Crespigny, the boots and breeches we know all the world over, are two guineas; and the old wheels, though they cost us eight pounds, sell for one? – I know nothing about the old wheels; I never made any agreement for them.

Did your former coachman account for the old wheels? – No, never: I believe they were the first wheels I had ever wore out.

The trial was a trial by jury. William Hayward was found not guilty. There seemed to be reasonable doubt as to whether Hayward was entitled to the old harness as a perquisite, as much his right as his wages. However, the court was at pains to point out that Hayward’s acquittal was not setting a precedent: “it is by no means to be understood that servants have a civil right to lay hold of the property of their masters and keep it as wages.”

William Crespigny’s memory issues are similar to those of Arthur Sinodinos at the recent ICAC hearings, represented in this cartoon about Arthur the bilby at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/apr/07/australia-australian-politics?CMP=ema_632 .

A pirate in the family tree

20 Thursday Mar 2014

Posted by Anne Young in author, crime, lawyer, Mainwaring, Oxford, Parliament, piracy

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Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587-1653) was an English seaman who spent some of his career as a pirate on the Barbary coast. He was afterwards pardoned and knighted by King James.

My son, who is studying history, came across the pirate Henry Mainwaring and asked if we were related to him.  I replied that I did not think so, but I decided to check for a relationship.  Henry Mainwaring, I discovered, is my third cousin eleven times removed, a relative indeed, though not a close one.

The common ancestor of me and the pirate is Sir John Mainwaring (1470-1515) my 13 times great grandfather.  Sir John had gone to the French wars in the train of the Earl of Shrewsbury. He was knighted at Tournai in 1513. ( Metcalfe, Walter Charles, ed., Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath et., IV Henry VI to 1660, London (1885) page 50 ) Sir John Mainwaring was Henry Mainwaring’s great great grandfather.

Henry Mainwaring was the second son of Sir George Mainwaring and Ann More.  Henry studied at Oxford University. In 1604, about seventeen years old, he was admitted to the Inner Temple as a lawyer.

It is not clear how Henry became a seaman, but in 1610, at the age of about twenty-three, he was commissioned by the Lord High Admiral, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, to capture the pirate Peter Easton, who had been raiding Newfoundland.  Mainwaring was unsuccessful.  He was then given a letter of marque, becoming a privateer against Spanish shipping in the West Indies.  En route there he decided instead to attack Spanish shipping from the coast of Morocco.

Mainwaring was based at La Marmora, present day Mehdya, on the Morocco coast near Rabat, for four years from 1612. He had a fleet of thirty captured Spanish ships.  He claimed that he never attacked English ships.  The French and Spanish governments complained about Mainwaring to the English government and King James I sent an envoy with an offer of a free pardon if he promised to give up piracy. He was pardoned in 1616 and all those who served under him were granted an amnesty.

Later, Mainwaring became a hunter of pirates. He wrote a book on piracy, Discourse of Pirates, which he dedicated to the King.  He was knighted on 20 March 1618 and became one of King James’s courtiers and a friend of the King.

In 1620 he was appointed Lieutenant of Dover Castle and Deputy Warden of the Cinque Ports. In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament for Dover. Around this time Mainwaring wrote the Seaman’s Dictionary. It was not published until 1644 but manuscript copies were distributed before then. It is considered the first authoritative treatise in seamanship.

Mainwaring offended Lord Zouche, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and was dismissed from his post at Dover Castle. Mainwaring sought the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham. At that time Buckingham was Lord High Admiral and it has been asserted that Buckingham and his masters made a serious attempt to reform the naval administration, and that in this Mainwaring played a considerable part. However Buckingham was assassinated in 1628 and Mainwaring lost his patron.

Mainwaring was not wealthy, and after Buckingham’s death, he attempted to improve his fortunes by marrying a rich widow.  She rejected him and in 1630 he eloped with a twenty-three year old heiress.  His father-in-law refused to provide a dowry until Mainwaring had made a settlement. Mainwaring’s wife died in 1633 and their only daughter died about 1640. Mainwaring was outlawed for debt in 1641. In 1651 an assessment of his worth in considering his debt stated that his entire property consisted of ‘a horse and wearing apparel to the value of £8’.

Mainwaring had joined the navy as a captain in 1636.  He was a Vice-Admiral by 1639.

During the English Civil War (1642-1651), Mainwaring joined the King at Oxford. Later he served with Royalist fleet.  He was with the sixteen-year-old Prince Charles, later King Charles II, at Jersey in 1646.

Mainwaring died in 1653, leaving no will.  He was buried at St Giles, Camberwell.  No gravestone, if there was one, has survived.

References and further reading

E. Hunt, “MAINWARING, SIR HENRY,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 20, 2014, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mainwaring_henry_1E.html.

Mainwaring, G. E. (ed.). 1920. The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring. London: The Council of the Navy Records Society. https://archive.org/details/henrymainwaring02manwuoft

Pringle, Patrick Jolly Roger : the story of the great age of piracy. Dover Publications, 2012. pages 43-45 retrieved from Google Books http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WqXDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT43

Thrush Andrew “MAINWARING, Sir Henry (1586/7-1653), of Dover Castle, Kent; later of Camberwell, Surr.” The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790, 1964. Member Biographies from The History of Parliament Online. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/mainwaring-sir-henry-15867-1653>

“SIR HENRY MAINWARING.*.” The Spectator Archive. The Spectator, 19 Feb. 1921. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/19th-february-1921/19/sir-henry-mainwaring>.

(Library Assistant), Nabila. “The Seaman’s Dictionary: ‘This Book Shall Make a Man Understand'” Royal Museums Greenwich. National Maritime Museum, 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. <http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/collections/by-type/archive-and-library/item-of-the-month/previous/the-seaman%27s-dictionary>

PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST. IN PIRATE DAYS. (1914, July 9). Cobram Courier (Vic. : 1914 – 1918), p. 6. Retrieved March 21, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129536151

Trove Tuesday: George Taylor (1800 – 1826) killed by aborigines in Tasmania

02 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by Anne Young in crime, encounters with indigenous Australians, Tasmania, Taylor, Trove, Trove Tuesday

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DREADFUL MURDERS. (1826, November 17). Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser (Hobart, Tas. : 1825 – 1827), p. 3. Retrieved August 29, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2448903

George Taylor (1800 – 1826) was my 4th great grand uncle.
His murder was reported in more detail the next day.  
THE BLACK NATIVES,. (1826, November 18). Hobart Town Gazette (Tas. : 1825 – 1827), p. 2. Retrieved August 29, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8790357
A hundred years after the arrival of the Taylor family in Australia, there was a feature on the family history in the Launceston Examiner.  George’s death and burial were remembered. 

   
SPEARED BY BLACKS. (1923, January 11). Examiner(Launceston, Tas. : 1900 – 1954), p. 2 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved August 29, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51204155

George Bowyer transported for pickpocketing

17 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Anne Young in Champion de Crespigny, court case, crime

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The proceedings of the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court are online at oldbaileyonline.org in a useful searchable format.  My attention was brought to this resource by a talk given by Joshua Taylor in Melbourne which was sponsored by findmypast.com.au .

Browsing for my forebears, whether victims or villains, I came across an item where George Bowyer was found guilty of pickpocketing and sentenced to seven years transportation. (Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.0, 17 August 2013), July 1790, trial of GEORGE BOWYER (t17900707-35).)

The trial was on 7 July 1790 and the victim, Claude Crespigny, described how he was alerted to the theft by a footman and pursued the thief.

CLAUDE CRESPIGNY , Esq. sworn.
On the 2d of June last, about noon, under Newcastle-house , a footman told me I was robbed, and pointed to the prisoner, and called to him; and in King-street I came up to him; I never lost sight of him; towards the end of Gate-street, a man caught him in his arms; and he had thrown my handkerchief into a passage; I saw him make a motion with his right arm, as he was running, before he was stopped: I stooped passing by the passage, and picked up my handkerchief; that was in the pursuit, scarcely stopping in my career: he was instantly stopped within a few yards of that passage: I saw my initials, and No. 14, on the handkerchief: the prisoner was taken to Bow-street.

Newcastle House  is a mansion in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in central London, England. It was one of the two largest houses built in London’s largest square. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1688.  In 1790, at the time of the crime, half the house was purchased by James Farrer ; the firm of solicitors Farrer & Co still occupy the building. (Newcastle House. (2013, April 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:10, August 17, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newcastle_House&oldid=548786613)

Newcastle House in Lincolns’ Inn Fields, London. John Bowles, 1754. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons.  The building looks very similar today as can be seen from street view on Google maps.

From Google maps: the route can still be walked today.  In distance it equals 1/10th of a mile and would take 2 minutes to walk.

George Bowyer was found guilty and sentenced to 7 years transportation. He was transported with the third fleet setting sail in January 1791 sailing on the Albermarle. (Ancestry.com. Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Third Fleet, 1791 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Home Office: Convict Transportation Registers; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO11); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.)

The Albermarle left Portsmouth on  27 March 1791 with 282 male convicts and six female convicts.  She was one of eleven ships in the convoy.  Not long after departure there was a mutiny, but it was foiled and the perpetrators executed.  In the mean time the ship fell behind the fleet.  The voyage lasted 200 days.  There were 32 deaths of male convicts on the voyage. (Convict Ship Albemarle 1791 from http://www.jenwilletts.com/convict_ship_albemarle_1791.htm retrieved 17 August 2013).

It is not certain what became of George Bowyer.  I can find no further reference to him.  He may have been one of the 32 men who died on the voyage.  No lists of those men are available.

Transportation to Australia seems a very harsh punishment for the pickpocketing of a handkerchief, even a silk handkerchief.

Claude Champion Crespigny (1734-1818) was my fifth great uncle.  He lived at Lincolns inn Fields at the end of his life, and was Receiver of the Droits of Admiralty and Director of the South Sea Company.  He was the first Champion de Crespigny baronet, having been created baronet after entertaining the Prince of Wales, later George IV, at his house at Camberwell. At the time of the incident he would have been 55 years old.

Claude Champion Crespigny

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