Land in Woolwich, Plumstead and Greenwich

[AlanBoyd]

Searched tithe records for landowner George B* in Kent/Plumstead or Greenwich or Woolwich: the only result was a George Beaver in Greenwich

[hanes teulu]

George seemed to have a finger in lots of pies from newspaper reports (+ a very well stocked cellar).

[california dreamin]

Hi Mason

I would also consider looking at ER's, Rate books and in Directories  You might be surprised at the information you can gather.

CD

[MasonT78]

I'm afraid that I haven't found anything in the tithe records.

Looking for a landowner called Borrett seemed like the most likely option since the events happened well before the tithe survey date.

An exact search for landowner = 'Borrett' gave 255 results mainly in Norfolk and Suffolk.
There were none in Kent and I also looked further afield (Sussex, Surrey, Middlesex) without finding any. There are some Borrett records from Essex/Dagenham, but looking more closely I couldn't see any evidence that they were relevant.

If I broaden the matching criteria then a search for 'Borrett' in Kent turns up lots of 'Barratt', 'Barrett', 'Burt' etc. However if I focussed this broad search I got:

Kent/Greenwich/ 0
Kent/Woolwich/ 0

Was the case reported fully  in newspapers? Such a report may give more details about Borrett's full name. When exactly was the conviction?

I can see a couple of prison records around that time for a Robert Mason, Kent, and I saw newspaper reports from March of a man of that name being convicted at Greenwich of 'uttering a forged bill of exchange for £30' and later being transferred to a prison hulk at Sheerness.

Thank you Alan for looking. Looks likes you spent a lot of time, appreciate that. Yes, that Robert Mason is my grandfather. Uttering a forged bill of exchange. He was sent to Australia on board the Henry Tanner. I havent really searched the British newspapers much (No subscription).

Thanks again

[MasonT78]

George seemed to have a finger in lots of pies from newspaper reports (+ a very well stocked cellar).

Thank you. I would almost guess this might be him. Robert ended up being a licensee of a pub in Van Diemans Land where he subsequently died in the 1860's.