Around And About Warminster – Page 332

Second Conviction For Felony

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 18th January 1873:

Police – Town Hall. Saturday. – Before the Jon. W.L. Holmes a’Court, and Nathaniel Barton, Esq.

Emma Carr, an elderly woman of Warminster Common, wearing a green shade over one eye, was charged with stealing 2 pig’s eye-pieces, a piece of cheese, and a piece of lard, value 4/6, from Mr. Ransome’s shop, Warminster Common, on 7th January.

Lucy Ransome, daughter of the prosecutor, stated that on the day in question, she was in her father’s shop when the prisoner came in during the evening. She bought several things and then went out, and returned and bought some more things, and after she was served she kept lingering about the shop while other customers were being served. Witness saw the prisoner pick up a pig’s eye-piece and put it under her cloak. She told her father, who sent for P.C. Wheeler, and on the prisoner being searched in the shop the articles mentioned in the charge were found upon her. Mr. Ransome, the prosecutor, corroborated his daughter.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one calendar month with hard labour. This appeared to be the prisoner’s second conviction for felony.

Death Of Joseph Gaisford

From The Warminster Herald:

DIED
On 8th inst. [July 1872], at his residence, Pound Street,. Warminster, Mr. Joseph Gaisford, aged 82 years, deeply lamented by his family and friends.

Documents Of Mary Barnes (1866) and Joseph Debnam (1872), Relating To Two Cottages In Fore Street, Warminster Common ~ Parties: Board of Guardians, Debnam, Barnes, Toone, Vicary. 1835-1872

The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):

Eight legal papers, three deeds, sale particulars, succession duty account, and copy wills of Mary Barnes (1866) and Joseph Debnam (1872), relating to two cottages in Fore Street, Warminster Common (later a house, shop and bakehouse). Parties: Board of Guardians, Debnam, Barnes, Toone, Vicary. 1835-1872. Reference 860/4.

A Good Crop Of ‘Schoolmaster’ Potatoes At Sambourne, Warminster

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 30 October 1869:

Warminster. A Good Potato Crop
During the planting season, Mr. Timothy Moore, of Sambourne, planted 5 lbs. of the “Schoolmaster’ potatoes, and on digging the same a few days ago, found that the said 5 lbs. had produced four bushels of good sized potatoes. We should say that the seed planted was very small.

Burial Of Mary Dutch

Mary Dutch, aged 87, of Boreham Road, Warminster, was buried at Christ Church, Warminster, on 4th May 1869.

Opening of The Boys’ Orphanage, Warminster

From The Warminster Parish Magazine, May 1869:

On the 24th [April 1869], the Eve of the Festival of S. Mark, the Boys’ Orphanage in Silver Street, was opened with a short service in the House to invoke the blessing of Almighty God on the undertaking.

The Orphanage opened with two little orphan boys of Warminster, and the same afternoon a third orphan was admitted from Wootton-under-Edge. The boys attend the national school.

This Orphanage, which is a part of the Orphanage of Pity, is on exactly the same principle as the girls’ orphanage. Admission is free. No one will be asked to support it. Prayer and faith will be exercised on its behalf. There will be a common fund for the two houses.

We gratefully record that there has been quite sufficient money in hand to furnish the boys’ orphanage. The fittings of the Prayer Room are the gift of a friend. All the ironmongery also was given by one who has the care of the orphans much at heart.

Another little orphan girl of Warminster has been admitted this month, into the Girls’ Orphanage, making our number in that house seventeen.

The Marriage Of Frank Exten

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 17th October 1868:

Married, October 15th, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Frome, by the incumbent the Rev. A. Daniells, Frank, only son of Mr. R. Exten of Boreham, Warminster, to Emma Sophia, only daughter of Mr. J.M. Heal, Cheap Street, Frome.

Death Of Mary Ann Ford

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 1st August 1868:

Died. On the 29th ult., at Boreham, after a long and painful illness, Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. W. Ford, carpenter, aged 51.

Death Of Charles Holdaway

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 1st August 1868:

Died. July 28th at Boreham, Mr Charles Holdaway, aged 27.

The Orphanage Of Pity, Warminster

From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, April 1868:

The Orphanage Of Pity, which was opened on the 1st of last November, now contains eight fatherless and motherless girls. They are supported entirely by voluntary unasked donations of those who feel with the Vicar that children circumstanced as they are should not be left only to the workhouse. The little house in Church Street was partly furnished before it was opened, but furnished only as the offerings were given for the purpose, nor throughout has anything been bought until the money has been given that is to pay for it. Hitherto we have to thank God. He has sent always sufficient for the immediate wants. When the quarterly rent-day arrived the rent was ready. Many kind friends have arisen whose hearts He has stirred up to help. In addition to money gifts there have been most useful and acceptable presents in kind – clothing, coals, wood, straw, flour, cheese, joints of meat, pies, puddings and potatoes, besides articles of furniture. Any, the smallest offerings, may be sent to the Vicarage for the orphans.