Topics about organisations and activities in Warminster.
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 9th August 1873:
Samuel Humphries, chimney sweep, was fined 10s. and 7s. 6d. costs for having been unlawfully drunk, in Pound Street, on 7th July. P.C. Poolman deposed to having found the accused between 9 and 10 o’clock at night creating a great public disturbance. He was very drunk, and made use of most impious language. Accused admitted he had had a little beer, but said he was not drunk, and his son had behaved badly towards him and made him excited.
Sale particulars of the Mason’s Arms, Warminster; cottages at Woodcock and Bugley, can be found in the archives at the Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN. They date 1873. The reference number is 1485/3.
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.
A list of the inmates at the Wiltshire Reformatory School, at Tascroft, Warminster, Wiltshire, recorded for the Census of 1871 (Sunday 2nd April 1871):
James Andrews, aged 9, born Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Fred Annett, aged 18, born Corsley, Wiltshire.
Charles Beckett, aged 12, born Hindon, Wiltshire.
William Bell, aged 17, born Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Thomas Bridgeman, aged 17, born Dauntsey, Wiltshire.
Thomas Bridgewater, aged 13, born Shinfield, Berkshire.
William Brooks, aged 14, born Bristol, Gloucestershire.
Thomas Burgess, aged 16, born Warminster, Wiltshire.
Jesse Bush, aged 19, born Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Alfred Chorley, aged 15, born Bath, Somerset.
William Clements, aged 14, born Corsley, Wiltshire.
Henry Cross, aged 13, born Banfield, Berkshire.
George Dredge, aged 12, born Wales.
Eli English, aged 16, born Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
Tom Ferrone, aged 17, born Bucklebury, Berkshire.
Walter Ferrone, aged 9, born Bucklebury, Berkshire.
Thomas Finch, aged 13, born Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
William Freeman, aged 16, born Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
John Fox, aged 14, born Ireland.
James Frost, aged 15, born Bath, Somerset.
Frank Gadd, aged 13, born Winchester, Hampshire.
William Gadd, aged 16, born Winchester, Hampshire.
John Gadfrey, aged 17, born Bath, Somerset.
William Halfyard, aged 11, born Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Thomas Hatcher, aged 13, born Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Joseph Hawkin, aged 17, born Bristol, Gloucestershire.
Henry Johnston, aged 17, born Bristol, Gloucestershire.
Robert Johnston, aged 19, born Boston, Lincolnshire.
William Jones, aged 16, born Dudley, Staffordshire.
George Kelley, aged 15, born Berwick St. John, Wiltshire.
George King, aged 18, born Abingdon, Berkshire.
William King, aged 11, born Great Bedwin, Wiltshire.
William Lake, aged 12, born Highworth, Wiltshire.
F. Jno. Laws, aged 20, born Bath, Somerset.
Arthur Longhurst, aged 14, born Sunny Hill, Berkshire.
Mark Massey, aged 16, born Salisbury, Wiltshire.
O.S. Norton, aged 11, born Gravesend, Kent.
Oliver Payne, aged 15, born Crockerton, Wiltshire.
Frank Prangley, aged 16, born Corsley, Wiltshire.
Edwin Roe, aged 19, born Bath, Somerset.
Edwin Short, aged 14, born Frome, Somerset.
Joseph Short, aged 15, born Salisbury, Wiltshire.
William Stallwood, aged 14, born Kingswood, Oxfordshire.
H.C. Swift, aged 15, born Salisbury, Wiltshire.
John Tillott, aged 15, born Bristol, Gloucestershire.
George Wansborough, aged 14, born Chitterne, Wiltshire.
James Ware, aged 13, born Wokingham, Berkshire.
James Warren, aged 14, born Warminster, Wiltshire.
Henry Watson, aged 12, born Kingston, Middlesex.
Alfred Whiteman, aged 12, born Sevenhampton, Wiltshire.
Alfred Wittes, aged 15, born Norton Bavant, Wiltshire.
Joseph Wootton, aged 15, born London, Middlesex.
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 15 October 1870:
Several weeks ago George Brown, haulier, &c., of Warminster Common, whilst engaged in cutting some chaff, pushed the stuff he was cutting into the chaff-box with his hand, and ran a thistle into it. The puncture festered shortly afterwards, causing his hand and arm to swell greatly. The inflammation continued to increase, and ultimately medical advice was obtained. Mortification subsequently set in, and the poor fellow died on Thursday night last.
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 9 April 1870:
On the farm of Mr. Chas. Burfitt, at Woolverton, near Mere, there is to be seen a live calf with six legs. It was born on 26th March. One of the legs comes out of the back between the shoulders, and hangs down on one side of the animal. It is about the proper proportionate length, but from its point of connection on the back down to the knee there is no bone; the other part of the leg, and the hoof are complete and well formed. Out of this leg, from between the knee joint and the hoof, appears the sixth leg, which is diminutive and has an uncloven hoof.
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.
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 30 October 1869:
Upton Scudamore. Monster Spud
Last week a man named Richard Parker, of Upton Scudamore, dug a potato from his garden which weighed 2lbs. 13 ozs.
The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):
Tom Ransom of Norton Bavant, Wiltshire. Berkshire Quarter Sessions Records. Examination Books. Police Examination Book. Age when appointed: 33 years. Residence when appointed: Washington. Date: 1869. Reference: Q/APE/1/1/425
From The Warminster Parish Magazine, June 1869:
The Christ Church [Warminster] choir paid a visit to Stourton on Whit-Tuesday, at the invitation of the Rev. W. Hickman. Although the morning was wet and discouraging the weather became beautifully fine in the afternoon, and the party went over to the house, dined at the inn, and then walked through the beautiful grounds to the tower. Several friends accompanied the Choir, and all we trust spent a pleasant day.
