BARNET(T) - Dixton and Staunton (General)

by Mike Pinchin , Bedford, England, Sunday, May 24, 2015, 16:46 (3480 days ago) @ Mientajb

Buried in the BNA Cheltenham Chronicle Thursday 15 October 1829,

On Thursday evening last, a young man of the name of Richard BYBEE, in passing by Wittenton’s Brook, near Staunton, was tempted to reach over a hedge and take several apples from a tree belonging to Wm. BARNETT (father of the unfortunate Edward BARNETT , who was executed at Monmouth for the murder of Esther STEPHENS). Without speaking a word, BARNETT shot at the young man and wounded him in the thighs: the poor fellow with great difficulty reached home, which was about a mile off, where he now lies in a very dangerous state. On the following morning BARNETT was taken before P.J.DUCARELL Esq. but was remanded till the next day, when at a meeting held at the Angel Inn, Coleford, he was committed to gaol: he has since been liberated on bail.

A report in the London Standard Tuesday 07 October 1828 reveals that Edward’s mother (fast declining in years) was at the inquest and that Edward was her youngest son.