Gipsy Dan Boswell

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now you have the Family of Swales, did not I tell you Lees Dad said all Gipsys are Related


Daily gazette for Middlesbrough
 Friday 18 October 1878



ALLEGED HOUSE BREAKIN'G AT STOKESLEY.

John Stephenson (20), hawker, was indicted for breaking into the house of Mark Swales, hawker, at Stokesley, on the 13th July last, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel. Mr Luck prosecuted. — ln May last the prosecutor and his wife left Stokesley to attend Northallerton fair. The prisoner was Mrs Swale's brother-in-law, and he had permission to go into the house. On their return some wearing apparel was missed, and it was afterwards ascertained that the prisoner had pawned a portion of it. The prisoner's statement was that he stayed in his sister's house one night with a female, and on the following morning she gave him some clothing to sell, telling him it was her own. After he sold it he found that it belonged to his sister. The jury, after a lengthy deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty.

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Hartlepool northern daily mail
Monday 7 September 1885


Serious Accident at Stokesley. —On Saturday, a lad was filling a cart with grass, the horse took fright and bolted, the only occupant being a little girl. The mother, who is the wife of John Stephenson, hawker, was at the east end as the horse galloped past and tried to stop it. She was struck down the cart shaft and an infant which she had in her arms was thrown violently over her shoulder upon the road. It is not expected to recover. The mother’s collar-bone was broken, but the child in the cart escaped unhurt.

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I found these old records I don't know what to think of them but put them on for future researches to find





York Herald Saturday 11 March
York Assizes 1809

Robert Stephenson, alias Robert Shaw aged 21 of Middleton stole out of a field a black mare the property of Ralf Graham.

Hull Packet Tuesday 28 March 1809
York Assizes Lent
 before Simon De Blanc.

Johnathan Smith and Robert Stephenson Guilty of Horse stealing

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do you remember  Christina Lowther, now here you can meet Chistina Stephenson, remember from the other storys how the Lowthers are Related to the Stephensons

Beverley and East Riding Recorder
Saturday 7may 1910


STORY OF A PHEASANTS EGG.

 At Monday Elizabeth Stephenson, hawker, was (summoned by Jonathan Caisley a gamekeeper, for game  trespass  and Christina Stephenson, the mother of the first defendant. also a hawker, was summoned for being in a unlawful possession of a pheasant egg evidence was given that on April 28 the women were seen by Caisley that they were acting in a suspicious manner near a pheasant’s nest close to the high road. The gamekeeper made investigations, and a pheasant was found in Elizabeth's basket and an egg in Mrs. Stephenson’s basket. The women pleaded not guilty. Elizabeth’s defence was that she found the pheasant on the road with its head off, and the head dropped from its wing. Mrs. Stephenson denied any knowledge of the egg being in her basket, and the daughter said she placed it there without her knowing. Elizabeth was fined Is. and costs, and Mrs. Stephenson was ordered to pay the costs.

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I don't know who this Stephenson is , I just liked the story, that's why I put it on

Tamworth herald
Saturday 10 January 1885

Drunken Pugilists.—Thomas Murray, private in the South Staffordshire Regiment, stationed at Whittington, and William Stephenson, hawker of salt , residing in Aldergate were summoned for being drunk and riotous in Lichfield Street.—lt appeared from the evidence of P.C, Willis, that late Saturday evening, the defendants were fighting in Lichfield Street, and creating a great noise. He ordered them away, and they left quietly.—The Bench said that as the defendants left the streets when ordered they would be discharged on payment of the costs of the court.


Tamworth herald
Saturday 8 august 1885

TAMWORTH BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS.

 Wednesday.—Before Mr. Alderman Clarson and Mr. Alderman Flare. Breach of the Peace.—William Stephenson, hawker, and Francis Wileman, collier, both residing within the borough, were charged by Inspector Dodd with being guilty of a breach of the peace by fighting together, Both defendants pleaded guilty.—lt transpired that on the day in question, the two defendants, who were stripped to the waist, and were fighting one another in the public street, opposite the Bell Inn. Twenty or thirty rounds were fought, with alternate success sometimes one being knocked down and sometimes the other. A crowd of more than a hundred people gathered round the combatants, who did not separate until the police were sent to them. —Seven previous convictions were against Stevenson, and 10 against the other. The men were each bound over for six months, and each to pay the costs

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York herald
Thursday 3 august 1882

KNABESBBO'. Petty Sessions. — Yesterday, the police summoned Benjamin Stephenson, pot hawker, for encamping on the Pole-lane at Greenham Merton with two waggons and six horses. Fined 20s. And costs

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York herald Wednesday
5 august 1874

Alexandra Stephenson of Donby charged with furiously driving his horse and cart on the MoorsHolm

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Yorkshire gazette
Saturday 2 February 1884

Edward Stephens a traveling hawker was fined 1s and costs for encamping on the highway in
“goose lane “on the 11ntl. Defendant had a tent and a fire.

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now a man named Morrison comes in, I,m sure they are also Gipsys and Related, looks like everyone knows everyone


Durham county advertiser
Friday 29 October 1869

Horse stealing

The man who offered the mare for sale at Hett was Benjamin Stephenson. Jas Morrison a hawker living in Stockton said he was present when Benjamin Stephenson, who is a pot hawker, living in York, offered the mare for sale. He saw the prisoner pay three pounds fifteen shillings for the mare, which was delivered over to him, Mr Brignell, the man Stephenson is now running up and down Yorkshire, he will take good care not to come to Durham in a hurry, the Bench thought there was no evidence on which they could proceed against, and therefor discharged the prisoner.