World War One. Gipsy Roll of Honour.

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  if you look at these reports from the very hard research of the people who have in the past already trod this road, well read the few links and you will see some old research, i now will show you some connecting records, lots may be wrong, it is all apart of the big picture though


 https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=729676.msg5743928#msg5743928

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
 
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=132544.0
 
 https://www.GenesReunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1354624
 


 
 
  1851   

 
William Draper age 48, born Moulsoe Beds ; Labourer
wife Mary Draper age 46 born Ridgmont, Beds
son William Draper age 18 born Newport Pagnell, Bucks ; Labourer
son Kirby Draper age 17 born Aspley Guise, Beds ; Labourer
son Alexander Draper age 13 born Westrom, Kent ; Labourer
grandson William Rainbow age 8 born Aspley Guise Beds
William Draper age 48, born Moulsoe Beds ; Labourer
wife Mary Draper age 46 born Ridgmont, Beds
son William Draper age 18 born Newport Pagnell, Bucks ; Labourer
son Kirby Draper age 17 born Aspley Guise, Beds ; Labourer
son Alexander Draper age 13 born Westrom, Kent ; Labourer
grandson William Rainbow age 8 born Aspley Guise Beds

     
 

John Rainbow age 46 born Yardley Hastings, Northants ; General Dealer
wife Eleanor Rainbow age 27 born Ridgmont, Beds
Judith age 18 born Yardley Hastings ; Lacemaker
James age 7 born Sherington, Bucks
Spencer age 4 born Stoke, Kent
Mary Ann age 2 born Bow Brickhill, Bucks
 




1861 census:
 

Kisbee Draper, 24, b. Breckhill, Bucks, Lodger Head, Leighton Buzzard
Ann Baines, 23, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Housekeeper, Leighton Buzzard
Charles Baines, 2, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Housekeeper Son, Leighton Buzzard
Ann S Baines, 1, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Housekeeper Daur, Leighton Buzzard

1871 census:
 
Kisby Cotching, 55, b. Bedcks, Woburn Lands, Head, Leighton Buzzard
Ann Cotching, 33, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Wife, Leighton Buzzard
Charles Cotching, 12, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
Ann Cotching, 10, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Daughter, Leighton Buzzard
Elizabeth Cotching, 8, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Daughter, Leighton Buzzard
William Cotching, 6, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
Maria Cotching, 4, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Daughter, Leighton Buzzard
John Cotching, 2, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard

 1881 census:
 
Kisby Cotchin, 44, b. Woburn Sands, Beds, Head, Leighton Buzzard
Ann Cotchin, 43, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Wife, Leighton Buzzard
William Cotchin, 16, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
Mary Cotchin, 14, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Daughter, Leighton Buzzard
John Cotchin, 12, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
Darney Cotchin, 8, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Daughter, Leighton Buzzard
Thomas Cotchin, 4, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
Ernest Cotchin, 3, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
Sam Cotchin, 3 months, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard


1891 census:
 

Kisby Scotchings, 60, (Place of birth not given), Head, Leighton Buzzard
Ann Scotchings, 53, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Wife, Leighton Buzzard
Thomas Scotchings, 14, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
Ernest Scotchings, 13, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
William Scotchings, 8, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Son, Leighton Buzzard
(Sam Cotching had died in 1882 q1)

 
1901 census:
 

Kisby Colchin, 66, b. Woburn Sands, Bucks, Head, Leighton Buzzard
Ann Colchin, 63, b. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, Wife, Leighton Buzzard

i will put up a few records next of connecting record names, i know this is only for Family and Gipsy Researchers of High Class, you are welcome forever

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Saturday 17 May 1919
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire       

  Sarah Cotchin pleaded not guilty to stealing a quantity of barley




 Saturday 02 October 1909
 Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 

LEIGHTON BUZZARD
  A Till Thief.—A labourer, named William Rainbow, of no fixed abode, was charged on remand with stealing 3s. 6d. from the till of the Black Horse publichouse at Leighton 

 

 Saturday 26 December 1908
  Ampthill & District News
  Bedfordshire 

 

William Cotching, hawker. was summon for having in his possesion a gun and cartridges, when coming from land where had been in search of game



Saturday 25 February 1905
  Croydon's Weekly Standard
  Buckinghamshire 

 Spencer Rainbow was summoned for being drunk and disorderly at Sherington, on Feb. 6. 

 

Saturday 23 May 1896
  Croydon's Weekly Standard
  Buckinghamshire 

  also EIGHT COTTAGES and Gardens, situated in Water Lane, Gun Lane,. and Church Walk, Sherington, in the occupation of :Spencer Rainbow, Mrs. Muskett. John Simms, and other., at rent. amounting to £33 a year. The property may be viewed upon application to ...




Friday 01 July 1898
 Northampton Mercury
  Northamptonshire

BEDFORD
  —John Rainbow guilty to a charge of drivinig a cart without having a lighted lamp  on the 12th 

 

Saturday 05 October 1895
  Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press
  Buckinghamshire 

 
 Thos. Scotchin, John Proctor, Wm. Linney and Geo. Proctor, all hailing from Leighton Buzzard, were summoned for using obscene language at ...
 


Saturday 15 December 1894
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire



LEIGHTON BUZZARD
 — Dametta Cotchin, single woman, of Leighton Buzzard, had been summoned upon a charge of using obscene language in the pnblic streets 


 Saturday 22 April 1893
  Bucks Herald
 Buckinghamshire 

NEWPORT PAGNELL
 . William Rainbow and David Mobbs pleaded guilty to being drunk at Sherington, on April 1, and fined 2s. 6d. and 9s. 6d. costs each

 
 

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  Tuesday 23 May 1893
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 
Local Poachers Abroad.— On Wednesday last, in the Newport Pagnell petty sessions John Eggleton, of Leighton Buzzard, and William Finch Baines, of Heath-and-Reach. summoned for having trespassed in search of rabbits on land at Moulsoe, were fined £2 and 12s ...

 Friday 29 September 1893
  South Bucks Standard
  Buckinghamshire 

 
—Kisby Draper said that he was returning home from Amersham fair on Tuesday evening he found deceased lying on the road quite unconscious ...


Saturday 25 July 1891
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 



 NEWPORT PAGNELL
 —Captain Drake, Chief Constable of the county, was also present.— Spencer Rainbow, who did not appear, was charged with being drunk at Sherington, on July 4th, and fined 2s. 6d. and 13s. 6d costs or fourteen ...

 

Tuesday 08 April 1890
 Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire

 
TURNIP-TOP STEALING.
Eliza Baines, Annie Baines, and Jane Betts, young women of Leighton Buzzard, were charged with having stolen a quantity turnip-tops, valued at Is. 6d., the property of Mr. W.CUridge, farmer, of Leighton Buzzard, from a field at Eggington ...


Saturday 23 February 1889
  Northampton Mercury
  Northamptonshire

YARDLEY HASTINGS
... confined to her bed for weeks, was a staunch member of the Church of England. On the Same Day, Mrs. Sarah Rainbow (widow of the late Mr. John Rainbow) was buried in the parish churchyard at Denton. Deceased was a native of Yardley Hastings, and before her ...

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  Tuesday 23 April 1889
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 
 RABBITING HEATH-AND-BEACH.
 William Finch Baines, Thomas Kempster, and Arthur Baldwin, labourers, of Heath-and-Reach, were charged with having trespassed in search of game on land in the oecupation of Baron de Ville, at Heath-and-Reach, on the 3rd of April ...



Saturday 28 May 1887
  Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press
  Buckinghamshire 

 
Spencer Rainbow was charged by P.C. Cooper with being drunk and disorderly in the streets of Sherington, on the 11th of the present month ...
 


Saturday 13 February 1886
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire

 
  John Eggleton, Richard Baines, John Cotchin, Charles Pratt, and William Webster, of Leighton Buzzard, labourers, were charged with trespassing for rabbits on land ...
 
 Tuesday 16 February 1886
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 


 
MORR RABBITING. William Finch Baines and John Sear, labourers, Leighton Buzzard, were charged with having trespassed in search rabbits on land in the occupation of Sir Hanmer, at Heath-and- Reach, on the 10th of January. Baines pleaded guilty ; Sear’s ...
 
 

Tuesday 11 March 1884
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

BAINES V. CALVERT
 BAINES V. CALVERT, Mary Ann Baines, domestic servant, of Buzzard, sued William Calvert, of the Bedford Arms Inn, Linslade, to recover 7s. 6d., three weeks’ wages at 2s. 6d. per week. Plaintiff said she went into defendant’s service, upon a weekly agreement ...

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Saturday 18 April 1885
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 


LEIGHTON BUZZARD
— William Finch Baines and Ephraim Stone, labourers, of Heath-and-Reach, were summoned for trespassing search of conies on land of Sir W. E. Hanmer, Heath-and-Reach, on the 26th March. John Bishop, gamekeeper, proved the charge.—Baines was fined £2, and ...
 



Tuesday 07 October 1884
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 
 CHARGE OF FOWL STEALING
 William Finch Baines, labourer, of Leighton Buzzard, was brought up in custody, charged with having stolen three fowls, the property of Mr. T. Atterton, at Leighton Buzzard, on the 18th of May last

  Tuesday 20 March 1883
 Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 

 William Finch Baines, labourer, a young man belonging to Heath-and-Reach, was summoned for having damaged the front door of the King’s Arms lnn, North Street, Leighton Buzzard, the property William James, the of February, the ...

   
Saturday 31 March 1883
 Oxford Journal
  Oxfordshire 

 OXFORD CITY POLICE COURT, TUESDAY
... RIOTOUS.-John Rainbow, hawker, of the or Lamb and Flag Yard, St. Thomas's, pleaded guilty to  being drunk and riotous in Castle-street and was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour
 


Tuesday 31 July 1883
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 
   
  SUNDAY MORNING POACHING AND TRESPASSING.
Richard Baines, William Cotchin, Alfred Brandom, Charles Hickinbottom, and John Daniels, labourers, of Leighton Buzzard, were charged for having trespassed in search game on land in the occupation of Mr. W. Claridge ...


 
Saturday 28 July 1883
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 


... the defendants appeared and pleaded guilty. Baines was fined 10s. and Bs. 6d. costs  Cotchin and Hickinbottom 5s. each and 8s. 6d. costs ; Brandom and Daniels 2s. 6d. each and 8s. 6d. costs ; Baines, Cotchin, and Hickinbottom were committed in default ...

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Saturday 21 July 1883
  Oxford Journal
  Oxfordshire

John Rainbow, hawker, St. Thomas's, was fined 6s. and 4 3s. 6d. costs, for being drunk and fighting in the Corn Market. street on Tuesday

  Tuesday 02 May 1882
 Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 
 
 

  DRUNKENNESS. William Finch Baines, labourer, of Heath-and- Reach (the defendant in the above case) was also charged with having been drunk on the highway, at Heath-and-Reach, on the 18th of April. Police constable Cook stated that, half-past seven in ...


 Saturday 10 June 1882
 Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire

NEWPORT PAGNELL
  William Facey was charged with being drunk on licensed premises—the White Hart Inn, Sherington, on the 22nd May, and fined 55., and 13s. 6d. costs ; or seven days.— Spencer Rainbow was also charged with being drunk the same time and place, and fined 55., and 13s. 6d. costs ; or seven days

 Saturday 12 February 1881
  Croydon's Weekly Standard
  Buckinghamshire 

 
  he was in company with Spencer Rainbow going for breakfast, about a quarter to nine o'clock. they were going along and they saw Rainbow pick up a  hare and put it into his pocket.—By Inspector Yoore.—Rainbow was with him the whole ...

  Tuesday 21 June 1881
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 FAMILY FEUD 
  Mary Baines had been in company with William and Elizabeth Stevens when Amos Stevens and his wife met them. Martha began clapping her hands in the face of William, who said he did not wish to have any words. Martha Stevens struck William Stevens in ...
 

 
 

  Tuesday 20 September 1881
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 
SUNDAY DEPREDATIONS. —ORGANISED ATTACK ON KEEPERS. William Baines, labourer, of Heath-and-Reach; William Cosby, and dealer, Thomas Williams and and William Meacham, labourers, of Leighton Buzzard, were severally charged, on summons, with ...

  Saturday 03 December 1881
  Oxford Journal
  Oxfordshire 

OXFORD CITY POLICE COURT, TUESDAY
 
 Henry Rainbow, hawker was charged with receiving a portion knowing to have been stolen. - Remanded 

  Wednesday 14 December 1881
  Oxfordshire Weekly News
  Oxfordshire 



THE OXFORDSHIRE WEEKLY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEIT HER 14, 1881
  and John Henry Rainbow, hawker, of no fixed home, was charged with having received a portion  well-knowing it to have been stolen.—This case was adjourned from last week, and Mr. Dudley now appeared todefend rainbow.—The prosecutor. examined ...

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Saturday 22 May 1880
  Northampton Mercury
  Northamptonshire 

BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS
  Bell Case. —John Rainbow, Spring-lane, was summoned for being found on the licensed premises of William Blamire, ou the Bth inst.—The Chief Constable stated that the defendant gave the name of John Williams, Cyrilstreet —Defendant ...

 
  Tuesday 07 September 1880
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 
 LEIGHTON BUZZABD
 On Monday (yesterday) morning a man named Charles Baines, labourer, of Leighton Buxzard, was taken before Theodore Harris, Esq., at the magistrates’ clerk’s office, charged with stealing



Saturday 11 September 1880
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 
 

Singular Charge of Robbery. —On Monday last a man named Charles Baines, labourer, of Leighton Buzzard, was taken before Theodore Harris, Esq., at the magistrates' clerk's office, charged with ...

   Tuesday 04 February 1879
 Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 
 

The names of the prisoners were William Rolls, George Rolls, Thomas Baines, William Durrant, Frederick Smith, and Thomas Read. Their depredations had been mixed together that will best ...

 
  Saturday 01 November 1879
 Bedfordshire Mercury
  Bedfordshire 

 
 DAMAGE A WOOD. William Baines, labourer, Leighton; Henry Judge, labourer, of Woburn; John Gibbons, labourer, of Heath-and-Reach. Richard Kenny, labourer, of Heath-and Reach ; and John Rolls, labourer, of the same place, were severally charged with damaging ...


Saturday 26 January 1878
  Buckingham Express
  Buckinghamshire

LEIGHTON BUZZARD
  —Robert Tapsall, labourer, of Leighton Baszaad, was apprehended on Tuesday last, Charles Baines also of Leighton, charged with stealing sevenpence from John Battams, labourers  pocket, at the Plume of Feathers Inn



Saturday 14 September 1878
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 


LEIGHTON BUZZARD
  Assault.— Charles Baines, a labourer, of Leighton, was charged with assaulting Mr. Ashby on the same day.—lt appeared that when the prosecutor ...

 
 
   
Wednesday 31 October 1877
 Oxfordshire Weekly News
  Oxfordshire 

 
 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
  LARCENY.—Thomas Rainbow, of Shipton-under-Wehwood, hawker, was taken before the Rev. W. E. D. Carter, on Monday last, and remanded until today (Wednesday) on a charge ...

   

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Tuesday 18 January 1876
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire 

 
LEIGHTON BUZZARD
  —Thomas Baines, Amos Stevens, and Martha Stevens were snmmooed for having committed breach of the peace, by fighting together, at Leighton Buzzard, on the 26th of December. Baines did not appear ; the other two defendants ...
 


  Saturday 22 January 1876
 Luton Times and Advertiser
  Bedfordshire 

  Petty Sessions Last.— Thomas Bains, Amos Stevens, were summoned for Having committed a beach of peace, by fighgting together, at Leignton, Bains did not appear

 

 Saturday 29 April 1876
  Croydon's Weekly Standard
  Buckinghamshire


LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. NEWPORT PAGNELL PETTY SESSIONS, 
  Spencer Rainbow was charged with committing a game trespass, in the parish of Lathbury, on the 19th of April. Defendant pleaded not guilty ...

 
  Saturday 12 September 1874
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
  Gaming.—A fine of Is., and 9s. 9d. costs, was inflicted on each of two youths, Jeremiah Cooper and Kisby Draper, of the age of 17 and lb respectively, for gaming on the highway, on Sunday week last.—An alternative of 14 days



Saturday 28 September 1872
 Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire

For Trial at the Sessions. —Thomas Rainbow, assault with intent

 
Saturday 12 October 1872
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire


 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
 
Thomas Rainbow, 55, labourer, charged with assaulting Sarah Ann Stones


Saturday 18 March 1871
  Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press
  Buckinghamshire 


 
 STEALING FOWLS. Spencer Rainbow, 22, labourer, was charged with breaking and entering a building, the dwelling-house of Ellen Horton, at Sherrington, and stealing two fowls, the property of the said Ellen Horton. Sentenced to two ...


 
Saturday 15 January 1870
     Buckinghamshire 
   

Aaron Parrott, Spencer Rainbow, and Joseph Proctor, were charged with information of William Reeve, gamekeeper, with trespassing after rabbits at Chicheley ...

   
Saturday 22 January 1870
 Bucks Chronicle and Bucks Gazette
  Buckinghamshire


 ... fourteen days; William Duukley, stealing a gun, seven days; Charles Williams, destroying his own clothes, one month; Spencer Rainbow, tresspass, twenty-one days; George Saunders, stealing swede turnips, two months; George Burnes, vagrancy, twenty-one days ...

  Saturday 29 January 1870
  Buckingham Express
  Buckinghamshire 

   
—Aaron Parrott, Spencer Rainbow and Joseph Procter, were charged with trespassing on land in the occupation of Major Chester, at Chicheley, on the 9th of January, in search of conies.—Aaron Parrott and Spencer Rainbow did not appear 
 
 

Friday 29 April 1870
  Bicester Herald
  Oxfordshire

 
... be saw the defendant is company with Spencer Rainbow, go into a field occupied by Mr. Joseph Field, and when there he took a gun from his pocket and shot a hare. Witness was 100 yards from them when SpencerRainbow picked the hare up.—Mr. Field stated ...
 

Wednesday 25 May 1870
 Oxfordshire Telegraph
  Oxfordshire 

 
 Aaron Parrott and Spencer Rainbow, who were summoned for poaching and threatining the life of the keeper at Sherington

  Saturday 06 August 1870
  Oxford Journal
  Oxfordshire 

   Thos. Rainbow, of Milton-under-Wychwood, labourer, is. was charged by Mr. Geo. Bayliss, district surveyor, with  allowing an ass to stray ...

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Saturday 08 October 1870
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 

 NEWPORT PAGNELL
 
GAME CASES. Spencer Rainbow and James Elliott were charged with trespassing in pursuit of conies, on land in the occupation of Mr. F. J. Field, at Sherington, on the 22nd of September. Spencer Rainbow did not appear
 
 
 Tuesday 15 November 1870
  Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette
  Bedfordshire


 Thomas Baines, a labourer, of Leighton, was charged with having, the 22nd ult, been drunk and riotous at Leighton Buzzard. The defendant pleaded guilty. It appeared from the evidence that Baines was drunk and noisy at North Street ...


 
Wednesday 03 November 1869
 Oxfordshire Telegraph
  Oxfordshire 

Spencer Rainbow.  of Sherington, were charged with being drunk and disordetly as the White.. 
   
  Saturday 16 January 1864
  Bedfordshire Mercury
  Bedfordshire 


 —Kisby Draper, for throe months, (and to find sureties for twelve months) for night poaching, at Heath and Reach, on the 6th December 

 
Saturday 16 January 1864
  Bedfordshire Times and Independent
  Bedfordshire 

 EVERTON
 PETTY SESSIONS, January 12. Present : Col. R. T. Gilpin, M.P. ; Major W. E. Hanmer, and Rev. G. E. Whyley. Night Poaching. —Kisby Draper was brought up in custody on a charge of entering a wood, at Heath and Reach, with two other men, armed with guns



 Saturday 02 July 1864
  Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 

Uhauthenticated Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths  Marriage 
 
MARRIAGES. Cotchtng—Briggs.—On the 26th ult, Leighton Buzzard, by the Rev. T. W. Richards, Kisby Cotching, of North-street, to Sarah Briggs, both of Leighton
 

Saturday 17 October 1863
 Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
  Stealng Eggs.— John Rainbow, was convicted for stealing 10 hens eggs, on the 27th September 
 
 

Saturday 26 December 1863
  Croydon's Weekly Standard
  Buckinghamshire 

 
 And Spencer Rainbow charged with trespassing for game at Sherington 

 

Friday 31 January 1862
  Bicester Herald
  Oxfordshire 

 TRESSPSS FOR RABBITS .—  Abel Parrott,  for a trespass after rabbits, at Chicheley, on 17th January   


 Saturday 11 May 1861
 Bucks Chronicle and Bucks Gazette
  Buckinghamshire 

LEIGHTON BUZZARD,
 fanny Cotching, aged 13, was charged with stealing a silk handkerchief   

   
  Saturday 29 December 1860
 Bucks Herald
  Buckinghamshire 


 Spencer Rainbow, a lad about twelve years of age, pleaded guilty to a charge of setting a snare for game, at Sherington, on the 10th inst ...