Indexed newspapers - what's been your best find?

[SWar]

1862.  Ancestor in Central Criminal Court for counterfeiting gold sovereigns,
also implicated in the robbery of bank note paper from the Bank of England.
Sentenced to 20 years hard labour.

Some years earlier his younger brother appeared in the Old Bailey for attempting to redeem goods from a pawnbroker with a counterfeit gold sovereign - sentenced to 7 years transportation.

Sue

[Finley 1]

ok so a little slow  here... 

please tell me how to access these  newspapers.....  I would like to see Dunfermline and Leicester areas.... thank you

xin

[alpinecottage]

In England, you can access the Gale Newspaper Archive through the County Library Service of several counties.  Just google your county council, click on library services, then on something like virtual learning.  If you can see "19th century Newspapers" you can access them, possibly even from home, by entering your library card number into the box.  Try it and you'll see what I mean.  You can also access Gale from Australia via a similar system.

Sorry Xinia, I don't know where you live, so can't say if you can get access.

[coombs]

My ancestor is mentioned as giving evidence in an 1814 trial.

[Erato]

If you need US newspapers, there are quite a few on Ancestry.  To find  possibly relevant articles, I have found that it is best to do a Google News Archive search and then look at them on Ancestry.  The Google search engine is better than Ancestry’s.

[Finley 1]

OOOh  Of course, silly me... I have used the Library index  -- just misunderstood the post.

xin

[nickgc]

Two of several stand out for me.  One is my great grandfather, and it sounds like they were poking some gentle fun at him:

PAGE 9 of 15 Oct 1907 of Victoria (BC) Daily Colonist:  Headline = "Wrestling Bout is Concluded" sub-head = "Arthur Manson Captures the St. Andrew's Society Caledonian Cup at Last"

I have a picture where he is showing off all his silver sports cups, so he must have become better with age.

The next is a poem written by a 2x great grand uncle published in a newspaper on his 50th wedding anniversary.  A line about his early years led me to finding that his family spent about 10 years in an area of the US that no other researcher had found.

Nick

[nortybaby]

Gggrandfather - separated from wife - not responsible for any debts incurred by gggrandmother.

Gggrandfather - prosecuted for dodgy meat dealings (butcher)

Gggrandfather - death

Gggrandmother (same one as above) - second husband advertised not responsible for any debts she may incur.

That's it so far! All from NLA Beta in Aus.

[hiraeth]

I knew from the 1841/1851 censuses that my g-grandfather had three brothers.  Couldn't find them at all in 1861 or later and wondered if they had gone to sea or emigrated....  I finally found two of them in Death notices in the local newspaper.  Both had died of "decline" - one died age 20 in 1851 and another died in 1859 age 23