Little Dean Petty Sessions (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, February 28, 2015, 21:53 (3567 days ago) @ DavidHankey

Hi David,
did you find that article by free-searching the BNA website ?. I ask as I cannot find it yet on the BNA site, perhaps it's spelt differently ?

However I do find this;

Gloucestershire Chronicle - Saturday 03 August 1889

"Littledean Petty Sessions
Eliza Malson, Elizabeth Malson, Maria Phillips, and Maria Harris, married women, of Cinderford, were fined 1s. each, and ordered to pay damages 2s. 6d. and costs, for breaking down Crown timber at Haywood."

From this site's PRs, as you'll know Conrad and his mother were clearly living a hard life;

Record_ID: 16323
Entry_Number: 1385
Year: 1885
Month: Oct
Day: 4
Parents_Surname: MILSON
Child_Forenames: Conrad
Fathers_Forenames: [not stated]
Mothers_Forenames: Eliza
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Nailbridge
Occupation: [not stated]
Officiating_Minister: F.H.Hawkins Curate
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: PFC109 IN 1/4
Page_Number: 174
Parish_Chapel: Drybrook
Soundex: M425

I see from Ancestry he bravely gave his life for his country, if you havn't already got his WW1 Records I can happily supply, but no newspaper records though;

Name: Conrad Malson
Birth Place: Drybrook, Glos
Death Date: 11 Sep 1916
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Putney, London
Rank: Private
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Battalion: 10th (Service) Battalion
Regimental Number: 23644
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre.

See http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/171715/MALSON,%20C

Conrad lies at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France;

"During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city.
Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross, one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension.
St. Sever Cemetery contains 3,082 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There is also 1 French burial and 1 non war service burial here."

There is only one MALSON currently in this site's WW1 Servicemen database, looks a different man as below, so please could Admin consider adding Conrad ?;

Surname: MALSON
Forename: H
Rank: Private
Regiment: 13th (Forest of Dean) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
Service_Number: _
Residence: _
Notes_1: Enlisted 24_January_1915 _ _
Notes_2: _
Newspaper: _
Date_Published: _
Image: _
Soundex: M425

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Could this be his mother before Conrad was born ?, from the Welsh newspapers site;

CARDIFF TIMES of 1st June 1878

"LITTLEDEAN PETTY SESSIONS.
IMPUDENT THEFT OF BUTTER.—Elizabeth and David Malson, mother and boy, residing at Cinderford, were charged with stealing half a Ib of butter, value 7d the property of Edwin Long. The parties called at Mr Long's shop and asked for relief, representing that they were in great distress owing to the stoppage of works in the neighbourhood of Cinderford. Mrs Long left the shop to get them food, and meanwhile they "lifted" the butter. It was missed on their leaving the shop. Sergeant Swatton, who was sent in pursuit, found the butter in the woman's possession. She had also a basket of provisions - bread, butter, cheese, &c.—weighing 17 Ibs. The justices sent prisoner to gaol for two months."
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3388963/ART31/malson%20dean