REEKS/REEKES - 'Mini-crime wave' (General)

by MPGriffiths , Sunday, June 11, 2017, 13:12 (2509 days ago) @ diana white

By checking the Gloucestershire Genelogical Database for Goal records of Reeks/Reekes at Woolastone/Woolaston

There are 7 listed (will see what they got up to on Ancestry)

Sarah REEKS - aged 30 - Date of Committal : 25 June 1817
Francis REEKS - aged 21 - 16 January 1827
George REEKES - aged 27 - 22 April 1828
John REEKS - aged 24 - 20 June 1830
John REEKES - 28 - 31 July 1841

Mary REEKES - aged 74 - 16 August 1841 (found not quilty)

Ancestry, Gloucestershire Prison Records

Mary REEKS - 5 foot tall - Grey hair, Brown eyes, round visage, common complextion, labourer
Charged on the oath of Philip FISHER with feloniously having in her profesfion knowing it to be stolen a quanity of 'leather' **??? his property. Behaviour orderly.

* the word leather - is in the fold of the book

1841 census Woolaston

John REEKS - 37
Hannah REEKS - 66
Hariett REEKS - 22
Mary REEKS - 73
John REEKS - 40
Charles REEKS - 28

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John REEKES - aged 28 - 31 July 1841 was also found not guilty of stealing leather from Philip FISHER

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1841 census Woolaston

Philip FISHER - - aged 25 Shoemaker

Philip FISHER 75 - B Smith