On Sunday 11th December 1859, the neighbourhood of Marchwiel was full of rumours and gossip about an awful event that had occurred in the village the previous day, Saturday 10th December. It was only when [more]
At some time around the month of April 1899, Constantine M’Glone, a labourer, became a lodger at the home of Anne Williams in Wrexham Road, Brymbo. After he had become a lodger, he started drinking [more]
On Friday 3rd March 1854 the residents of Marford had the grizzly discovery of a suicide that had occurred at Roft Mount. A male known as Finchett had been living in the family for the [more]
On Monday 27th March 1854, Mrs. Emma Owen, a confectioner from Yorke Street, Wrexham, and the wife of Mr. Richard Owen, a tailor, was not feeling to well. She approached Mrs. Higgins, a neighbour living [more]
At about half past two on the afternoon of Saturday 16th September 1854, two men employed by Mr. Morris, were engaged in unloading wheat from three railway trucks on railway sidings just off the main [more]
During the Victorian era people who suffered dire financial hardship who had no one else to rely on had to take the drastic action of seeking the charity of their local Poor Law Union. This [more]
On Thursday 9th October 1879, John Smith and Thomas Bougham appeared before the Wrexham Court. They were both charged by Mr Ralph, the Master of the Wrexham Workhouse, with obtaining admission to the workhouse under [more]
At seven o’clock, on Friday 2nd May 1873, William Bell, a shepherd, employed by David Jones, a butcher trading from Wrexham High Street, went to check on the flock of sheep kept in a field [more]
On Monday 26th April 1875, Elizabeth Lewis, described in the court as a prostitute, found herself before the Wrexham Court charged with the offence of Vagrancy by Police Constable Rawlins. Elizabeth Lewis had been found [more]
In February 1893 Wrexham Magistrates Court was packed by a varied audience anxious to hear the case of alleged child stealing. The accused was Alice Bellis, the young wife of Thomas Edward Bellis who lived [more]
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