Northampton Gaol records

[Lola5]

Please is anyone going to Northamptonshire Records Office? If so can he/she do a look up for me. in the gaol records for 1816? I would be very grateful.
I have Hannah Linnett baptised  Dec5th 1834 in Claycoton but a note beside the baptism says privately baptised by Chaplain of the Gaol at northampton Jan 1816. Parents Thomas and Sarah.
Would Sarah have been in prison for the birth of Hannah? and for what crime was she indicted-if any?

[seahall]

Hi Lola.

Welcome to the Northants Boards. 

I have looked at the baptisms I have for Claycoton and it seems as though
Thomas and Sarah baptised a lot of children on Decr 5th 1824
including Hannah with the above notation at the bottom of the page.

Sandy

[seahall]

Looking at the British Newspaper Archive for Northants Mercury
no one is coming up under the name Linnet(t).

Will look further in a mo.

Sandy

[seahall]

Mmmmm. I can not find any Linnett's in the Criminal Registers.

It might mean someone looking through the Newspaper at the
Petty/Quarter Sessions around about those years.

Sorry.

Sandy

[Lola5]

Thank you Sandy,
  I have files of stuff on Linnetts of Northants and Rugby  and elsewhere but I have been puzzled  for years about Hannah being baptised by the gaol Chaplain. None of ours were criminals  or transported  but why would Sarah have been in gaol?
If ever you come across anything I should be  very glad to hear from you.
Marie

[Genetta]

Thank you Sandy,
  I have files of stuff on Linnetts of Northants and Rugby  and elsewhere but I have been puzzled  for years about Hannah being baptised by the gaol Chaplain. None of ours were criminals  or transported  but why would Sarah have been in gaol?
If ever you come across anything I should be  very glad to hear from you.
Marie

@ Lola5 I'm new on this board and realise that this is a very old post but I too wonder why Hannah was baptised in gaol.
 It seems that you are still active on this site and  we may be researching the same people  Sarah was my 4xggrandmother on my mothers side (her mother was a Linnett)

[Lola5]

Hallo,
Very pleased to hear from you. We must be of the same line.
I come down via Mary Linnet 1810 Claycoton.
Robert Mawby wed Sarah Gibbs in yelvertoft. They had a daughter Sarah Mawby who wed John Linnit.
Did you know our Robert  Mawby was descended from the De Mauteby family of Mautby Hall in Norfolk.
Why Hannah Linnet was baptised by the Chaplin of Northampton Gaol I have no idea. Was Hannah born in gaol?  Or did the Chaplin live nearby ? Or what?
If the mother was actually in gaol then surely Hannah would be on the gaol's baptism register.
How does one see the records for baptisms there I have no idea. Northampton Record Office would have them I guess.
My days of travelling are over  so unless someone has these records we will never know.

[Genetta]

My descent is through  Thomas Linnett, son of John and Ann Spriggs and his son son also Thomas.  I haven't really looked at the Mawbys beyond Robert.
 Thomas  Linnett did see the inside of a gaol as a young man. He must have been working as an indentured labourer and:
"Thomas Linnett, farm servant, was charged by his master, Mr Webb of Easenhall, with absconding from his service. Prosecutor said that Linnett had pursued a very dissolute course of life for some time past and he absented himself for some time, bringing with him on his return, a young woman of bad character. Sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour' Northampton Mercury  December 1856.  I don't know if  Betsy Salisbury (my gg grandmother)  was the woman of bad character but she had a child Emily baptised in October 1857 who seems to become Emily Linnett after their marriage in early 1858.

[Lola5]

Hi,
Thanks for the info.
Your John(my Mary's brother) married Anne Spriggs(who is buried St. Andrews Clay Coton.

They had various children including Thomas. George and a John and others plus some daughters.
When Ann Spriggs died John remarried Mary(forgotten her surname).

Maybe it was early death of their mother that sent some of the children off the rails?
As for your Thomas . I knew of his marriage to Elizabeth Salisbury but not  that he was a naughty boy. (but remember minor offences then were nothing as nowadays). Too they were poor and  life must have been hard.

Thomas brother, John,  was also not very good. He married a Sarah Davies and had 2/3 children and then left her and went south to Kent where he took up with another woman and had more children. He died in Buckland Dover workhouse ,poor fellow.
Musn't judge as we haven't walked in their shoes.
I knew nothing about Thomas so nice to know he had a family.
 The name was originally Linnit but changed over the years.
Have you ever contacted Leslea in Oz. She sent me piles of stuff on our Linnetts. She helped lots of folk.
John Linnit who married Sarah Mawby came from West haddon, a farmer i think. Possibly son of John and Ann nee Farndon(but not 100% sure on this)
Robt Mawby was a churchwarden at yelvertoft. I think he was weaver. He left a will.
Can't get at my papers so am trying to remember.

I only found the Robert Mawby  link with the de Mautby's of  Norfolk quite recently.
One son of the Norfolk family moved to S Kilworth befor 1500 and the name gradually evolved to Mawby. Robert was baptised South Kilworth  leics.12 Oct 1712 .
If you google Mautby/Mawby S Kilworth you will find all the line back.
I am hoping  to get some info on the Mautbys from NRO one day.