25 April 1854, Sussex Advertiser:
2 May 1854, Sussex Advertiser:
30 May 1854, Sussex Advertiser:
[Auction by Mr Vosey [Voysey ?] at the South Saxon Hotel, 1 June 1854. Now the site of Bonjour’s in rebuilt premises. Under the will of Edward Bassett, of St Leonards, builder, who had his Canterbury will proven 4 April 1854. He was buried 14 January 1854 at St Mary’s Magdalen, of that parish, aged 45]Lot 1. A freehold messuage situate and being No. 7, Gensing Road, in the parish of St Mary Magdalen, now let to Joseph Smith, as a monthly tenant, at a rent of £16 16s per annum.
Lot 2. All that freehold messuage situate and being No. 11, Gensing Terrace, Gensing Road aforesaid.
Lot 3. A freehold messuage situate and being No. 2, Cross Street, in the aforesaid parish, let at the annual rent of £13.
Lot 4. A freehold messuage with Cottage adjoining in the rear, situate and being No. 3, Cross Street, in the aforesaid parish, and adjoining Lot 3, and producing a rent of £23 8s per annum.
Lot 5. A freehold messuage with Cottage and washhouse adjoining in the rear, situate and being No. 4, Cross Street, in the aforesaid parish, and producing the same rent.
30 May 1854, London Gazette:
[Insolvent debtor] William Sutton, late of 32 London Road, carpenter and builder. In the gaol at Lewes.23 June 1854, London Gazette:
Bankrupt. Dover, 7 July 1854 hearing. John Hughes, formerly of Norman Road West, St Leonards, shoemaker, and late of the Cottage of Content, London Road, St Leonards aforesaid, beerseller and shoemaker.
29 August 1854, Sussex Advertiser:
5 September 1854, Sussex Advertiser:
Mary Ann Barnes, described as a charwoman, a young woman of by no means prepossessing appearance, charged Phillip White, a waiter and lodging-house keeper, at Rockbourne House, No. 9, Eversfield Place, with having indecently assaulted her. Mr Kell called Mr Mostyn, a next door neighbour of the defendant, and Charlotte Jenner, and Harriet Shepperfield, the fellow servant of the complainant. Mr Mostyn spoke as to character, and the servants said that their master (Mr White), had formerly been in the habit of carrying his eldest child from the room occupied by the complainant.
The Magistrates, after retiring, dismissed the case.
31 October1854, Sussex Advertiser:
POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LEAVING AN OPEN DRAIN UNGUARDED. William Foster was summoned for leaving a drain open by night unguarded.
The defendant did not appear.
P.C. Fryman stated that the defendant had commenced opening, on the 9th inst., the main drain leading into North Street, St Mary Magdalen, in order to lay in a branch drain from some houses belonging to Mr Towner. The place dug was about six feet by four and eight or nine feet deep, and just under a gas lamp. Though repeatedly cautioned, the defendant left the place unguarded up to the 16th inst.
P.C. Brazier had also, he said, repeatedly cautioned both Foster and Towner about leaving the place unguarded.
The defendant was fined 20s, 13s costs, or in default a month’s imprisonment at Lewes.
The defendant appeared before the sitting of the magistrates concluded, and was allowed a fortnight to pay the money [Towner was the landlord of the Carpenter’s Arms, then at 1 Union Road, now numbered 27 Alfred Street, on the corner with Union Street].
BEGGING. – Jane Douglas, a miserable looking old woman, was charged with begging at Eversfield Place, the previous evening.
The prisoner was discharged on promising to leave the town.
7 November 1854, Sussex Advertiser:
REMOVAL. – An order was made for the removal of Harriett Dunk (deserted by her husband, Solomon Dunk) and her six children, from the parish of St Mary Magdalen to Catsfield.
CASES UNDER THE EXCISE. – James Nabbs, lately of the Crown beer-shop, St Leonards, was summoned under the Board of Inland Revenue, for selling spirits without a license… [William Martin, a Tunbridge Wells gardener, had laid an information, that is, informed on Nabbs to the Excise. Case dismissed]
16 January 1855, Sussex Advertiser:
BEGGING. – James Crowley, a young man, was charged with begging.
Mr T. Eversfield stated that he saw the prisoner on the previous day at White Rock, crouched down, making a most dreadful crying noise, saying he was starving. Witness gave him six-pence, he also saw other persons giving him money. He afterwards saw him at Eversfield Place, making a similar noise, and gave him into custody.
P.C. Senior deposed to having cautioned the prisoner at an earlier part of the day, and to having afterwards taking him into custody.
Sentenced to one month’s imprisonment at Lewes.
BEGGING. – John Moor, an old offender, was committed to Lewes for a month for begging at St Leonards the previous day.
Thomas Baggell, apparently a mechanic, but upon evidence a regular beggar, was committed to Lewes for fourteen days’ for begging at St Leonards.
19 January 1855, Hastings and St Leonards News:
George Watson, 18, who said he came from Ayrshire, was brought up by police-constable Munn charged with begging at St Leonards, on Saturday evening.
Prisoner said he had been about to different places to get a berth on board ship, but could not get admitted on account of a wound in his breast.
Ordered to leave the town, as in the case above.
25 January 1855, Brighton Gazette:
BURIAL BOARD. – The Hastings Board have accepted the offer of the Magdalen Charity Trustees of 15 acres of the northern part of the “Great Field,” lying on the southern side of the Tivoli Road, at £200 per acre.
9 February 1855, Hastings and St Leonards News:
GENSING STREET. It was ordered that Gensing street should hereafter be called South street, the latter having became its popular designation [South Street is parallel and to the east of London Road].
20 February 1855, London Gazette:
Insolvent debtor. William Wellsted, late of 9 East Ascent, stationer. In the gaol at Dover.
6 March 1855, London Gazette:
Partnership between John Whiteman Webb and Robert Webb Firth, as butchers, at St Leonards, under the firm of Firth and Co., has been amicably dissolved. 31 Jan 1855.
16 March 1855, Hastings and St Leonards News:
LOCAL STATISTICS
At the beginning of the present century, the borough contained nearly 3,200 inhabitants; in 1851, the population was more than 17,600… In the third decennial period (1821-31), the increase of population was still more rapid, being at the rate of about 62 per cent; this was due chiefly to the erection of the new town of St Leonards, which was commenced in 1828, and caused the number of inhabitants in the parishes of St Mary Magdalene and St Leonard to be more than quadrupled. Then followed (1831-41) a period of great comparative depression, which many of our readers will remember. The increase of population in the western parishes sank from 313 per cent to 33 per cent; throughout the borough it was only 15 per cent; and in the two eastern parishes, the number of inhabitants suffered a slight decrease, notwithstanding the immigration of 700 or 800 persons, who had been expelled from the Priory ground on which Robertson street now stands. During the past ten years (1841-51), or rather during the latter half of that period, the population again rapidly increased throughout the borough at the rate of about 49 per cent, the greatest increase being once more in the western parishes, where the population has been nearly doubled… [due to the railways]… It is believed that this rapid increase of population still continues, — at least, while new houses continue to be built in Robertson terrace, Eversfield place, Warrior square, and the Marina…
30 March 1855, Hastings and St Leonards News:
Lewes Assizes. John McDermott, 25, was charged with a criminal assault on Mary Morris, in the parish of St Mary Magdalen, Hastings, on the 1st December last.
The prosecutrix was a nursery maid, and went with the prisoner into a public house where they had four quarterns of rum, and left the house by the back door, after which the offence was committed. Verdict Guilty; twelve months’ imprisonment, hard labour [Other newspapers state the public house was the Wheatsheaf, Bohemia. She was in the service of Mr Hurst, Hastings. McDermott was a married man who committed the offence while Morris was in a state of unconsciousness, as seen by a witness].
6 April 1855, Hastings and St Leonards News:
BEGGING. – Margaret Callaghan, an Irish woman with a child in her arms, was brought up by police-constable Adams for begging at Eversfield place about noon, on the previous day. Adams found her annoying people very much. He first cautioned her, but she refused to go away, so her took her into custody.
Sent to Lewes Gaol for fourteen days.