William Hurd Family - Woolaston(1800 to 1850) (General)

by MPGriffiths , Monday, September 29, 2014, 14:54 (3716 days ago) @ tomsand

Just to re-cap

In the Miscellaneous Section

Documents and Articles (copy of the trial events at Gloucester Assizes - i.e. Newspaper Article)

Supplied by Rae Clarke

Murder on the Severn.pdf

'William BURTON of Woolaston was hung 1819 at the Gloucester Goal for the murder of William Symms.

Other people mentioned are William HURD of Woolaston and James Henry BALL (Rae Clarke's 3rd great grandfather) who may have been the parish constable at the time.

James Henry BALL later married the widow of William HURD