Bejamin Hawkins - County Lunatic Asylum (General)

by Mike Pinchin , Bedford, England, Friday, May 23, 2014, 23:48 (3838 days ago) @ andrewp91

Here is another possible sighting of him from the British Newspaper Archive:-

Worcester Journal, Saturday 12th September 1885,

Pershore Petty Sessions – Tuesday

James BOOTH, Benjamin HAWKINS, George GREEN, William UNDERWOOD and Rowland HILL, all of Tewkesbury, were charged with doing malicious injury to the bank of a brook in the occupation of Mr Penstone A. PIKE at Bredon on 31st August……………………………………

…………………………………..The Bench considered the charges fully proved; and there being several previous convictions against BOOTH, HAWKINS, UNDERWOOD and HILL they were fined 40s, damage 1s and cost 15s 6d each or two months hard labour. Defendants were committed in default of payment.

Bredon is about 3 miles from Tewkesbury.

If this is him it may narrow his admission to the asylum to between 1885 and 1890.

If you need further confirmation of the place of his death it was reported in the Gloucester Journal of Saturday 31st May 1890:-

HAWKINS May 27 at the Wotton Asylum, Gloucester, Benjamin HAWKINS aged 39 years.