See also

Starling Butcher (1848-1878)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • Q1 1848

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England1 3 4

  •  

  • as Stirling Butcher

  • Baptism:

  • 28 Jan 1849 (age 0-1)

  • Holy Trinity Church, Back Hamlet, Ipswich, Suffolk, England2

  •  

  • son of Starling Butcher (labourer) and Eliza of Albion Street Ipswich

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 3)

  • Albion Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England3

  •  

  • son living with his parents and a brother and born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Criminal:

  • 6 Feb 1860 (age 11-12)

  • Ipswich Police Court, Ipswich, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • pleaded guilty with Charles Turner for stealing five clock weights and a clock pendulum from George Christie. They were let off on this occasion

  • Criminal:

  • 28 Jan 1861 (age 12-13)

  • Ipswich Police Court, Ipswich, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • was charged along with Charles Turner aged 10 of stealing a white calico shirt from Mary Ann Wenham. The bench were unwilling to send them to prison and remanded them until the evening whilst deciding what to do with them

  • Census:

  • 7 Apr 1861 (age 13)

  • 30 Siloam Place, Ipswich, Suffolk, England4

  •  

  • son aged 13 unmarried, living with his parents and a brother. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Criminal:

  • 3 Jul 1862 (age 14)

  • Ipswich Police Court, Ipswich, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • was imprisoned for 14 days for damaging a shrub in Mr H C Bond's garden in Rose Hill Road

  • Criminal:

  • 27 Mar 1865 (age 16-17)

  • Ipswich Police Court, Ipswich, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • was charged with Jeremiah Bennett for stealing two rabbits from Susan Butcher, they were sentenced to three weeks hard labour

  • Criminal:

  • 6 Jan 1866 (age 17-18)

  • Quarter Sessions - Shire Hall, St. Helens Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • was charged with stealing 30lbs of iron from Messers Woods and Cocksedge ironfounders of Stowmarket on 30th December 1865. He claimed he had picked it up on the dock but was sentenced to six weeks hard labour

  • Military Service:

  • 1871 (age 22-23)

  • gunner No.1862 with 1st Brigade Royal Artillery; Woolwich, Kent, England10

  • Death:

  • 20 May 1878 (age 29)

  • Meerut, Bengal, India11

  •  

  • Cause: of enteric fever

    as a gunner in the Royal Artillery

  • Burial:

  • 21 May 1878

  • Meerut, Bengal, India11

  •  

  • aged 29

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1848 quarter:1 volume:12 page:363.

2.

Suffolk Family History Society - Ipswich Baptisms 1813-1900, (2011 SFK-BPI-06/P1 own copy).

3.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:HO107 piece:1800 folio:146 page:7.

4.

England and Wales Census 1861, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG09 piece:1164 folio:122 page:19.

5.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). The Suffolk Chronicle 11th February 1860 page:6.

6.

Ibid. The Suffolk Chronicle 29th January 1861 page:9.

7.

Ibid. The Suffolk Chronicle 5th July 1862 page:5.

8.

Ibid. The Suffolk Chronicle 18th March 1865 page:12.

9.

Ibid. The Suffolk Chronicle Tuesday 9th January 1866 page:12. Cit. Date: 7 December 2016.

10.

FindMyPast British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 Transcription, (www.findmypast.co.uk). class:WO 10/2403 period:01/04/1871-30/06/1871. Cit. Date: 7 December 2016.

11.

FindMyPast British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns - Deaths & Burials, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). ref:N-1-164 pager:274. Cit. Date: 7 December 2016.