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JAMES SALT Photo details:

Age: 30

Date of Offence: 24th September 1862

Offence: Stealing three sheets the property of Edward Fuller at Sandy on the 19th Sept. 1862

Sentence: 4 Years Penal Servitude

Type of trial: Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 3 inches

Hair colour: Light Brown

Eye colour: Grey

Visage: Oval

Complexion: Sallow

Identifying marks: Large scar on legs and hips, one on abdomen, small marks about the shoulders.

Trade or occupation: Labourer

Education: Neither

Marriage status: Married

Number of children: Unknown

Residence details

Birth town: Sutton

Birth country: England

Residence town: Potton

Residence county: Bedfordshire

Residence country: England

 

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Name: James Salt

Age: 19

Date of Offence: 9th January 1851

Offence: On 17th Dec.1850 at Sutton unlawfully using a snare for the purpose of taking Game

Sentence: 21 Days Hard Labour or pay 10 shilling fine 7 shillings and sixpence costs

Type of trial: Summarily Convicted

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 2 ½ inches

Hair colour: Brown

Eye colour: Hazel

Visage: Round

Complexion: Sallow

Identifying marks: Scar on the nose

Trade or occupation: Labourer

Education: Neither

Marriage status: Single

Number of children: Unknown

Residence details

Birth town: Sutton

Residence town: Sutton

Residence county: Bedfordshire.

 

Name: James Salt

Age: 20

Date of Offence: 17th December 1851

Offence: On 14th Dec.1851 at Sutton assaulting and beating William Warden Barrington

Sentence: 1 Calendar Month imprisonment Gaol or pay 20 shilling fine 6 shilling and sixpence costs

Type of trial: Summarily Convicted

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 3 inches

Hair colour: Brown

Eye colour: Hazel

Visage: Round

Complexion: Sallow

Identifying marks:

Trade or occupation: Labourer

Education: Neither

Residence details

Birth town: Sutton

Residence town: Sutton

Residence county: Bedfordshire

 

Name: James Salt

Age: 25

Date of Offence: 23rd January 1856

Offence: Stealing on the 31st December 1855 at Sutton one bushel of barley value 4 shillings and sixpence the property of Frederick Clark

Sentence: 3 Calendar Months Hard Labour

Type of trial: Summarily Convicted

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 3 ½ inches

Hair colour: Light

Eye colour: Grey

Visage: Oval

Complexion: Fair

Identifying marks: Cut across bridge of nose, the nail of forefinger of left hand disfigured from a cut, scar on left shin and two outside left leg

Trade or occupation: Labourer

Education: Neither

Marriage status: Married

Number of children: 1

Residence details

Birth town: Luton

Residence town: Potton

Residence county: Bedfordshire

 

Name: James Salt

Age: 28

Date of Offence: 12th December 1861

Offence: Stealing beef and mutton

Sentence: 12 Months Hard Labour

Type of trial: Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions

 

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Name: William Salt (Brother).

Age: 22

Date of Offence: 28th November 1842

Offence: Misbehaviour in Service

Sentence: 1 Calendar Month Hard Labour

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 4 ½ inches

Hair colour: Dark Brown

Eye colour: Grey

Complexion: Fresh

Identifying marks: Slender, scar over the left eye

Trade or occupation: Labourer

Occupation category: Mill

Marriage status: Single

Number of children: Unknown

Residence details

Birth town: Luton

Residence town: Luton

Residence county: Bedfordshire.

 

Name: Sarah Salt (Sister)..

Age: 25

Date of Offence: 7th December 1842

Offence: Stealing a post of a dead fence

Sentence: 14 Days Hard Labour

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 0 inches

Hair colour: Dark Brown

Eye colour: Hazel

Complexion: Fair

Identifying marks: Stout, scar on two fingers of the left hand

Trade or occupation: Plaiter

Occupation category: Mending Prison linen

Marriage status: Single

Number of children: Unknown

Residence details

Birth town: Wrestlingworth

Residence town: Sutton

Residence county: Bedfordshire.

 

Name: Richard Salt (Brother)..

Age: 14

Date of Offence: 21st December 1842

Offence: Damaging trees

Sentence: 14 Days Hard Labour

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 3 inches

Hair colour: Brown

Eye colour: Grey

Complexion: Fair

Identifying marks: Stout, scar on the left thumb

Trade or occupation: Labourer

Occupation category: Mill

Residence details

Birth town: Sutton

Residence town: Sutton

Residence county: Bedfordshire..

 

Name: Mercy Salt (Sister)..

Age: 21

Date of Offence: 15th November 1855

Offence: Vagrancy deserting her illegitimate child

Sentence: 1 Calendar Month Hard Labour

Type of trial: Summarily Convicted

Personal details

Height: 5 ft 3 inches

Hair colour: Brown

Eye colour: Hazel

Visage: Oval

Complexion: Fair

Identifying marks: Stout made

Trade or occupation: Plaiter

Education: Neither

Marriage status: Single

Number of children: 2

Residence details

Birth town: Sutton

Residence town: Biggleswade

Residence county: Bedfordshire

 

Name: Eliza Salt (Wife),,

Age: 25

Date of Offence: 23rd October 1861

Offence: Misbehavious in Union (breaking a window)

Sentence: 1 Calendar Month Hard Labour

Type of trial: summarily convicted..

 

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JAMES Salt 1829-1915, son of Thomas and Mercy was christen on the 27th September 1829 at Sutton in Bedfordshire.

Thomas 1795-1838 married Mercy Chesham or Chessum, on the 5th November 1815 at Wrestlingworth in Bedfordshire. Their had eight children between 1817-1834. Thomas who was christen on the 24th June 1795, at Wrestlingworth in Bedfordshire, was the son of Thomas and Susannah nee Conder, who married on the 8th November 1787. Thomas died in September 1838, when his youngest daughter was only 4 years-old. His burial took place at All Saints Church, Sutton in Bedfordshire, on the 29th September 1838.

 

Siblings of James Salt 1829-1915 are:

 

SARAH, christen 2nd February 1817 at Wrestlingworth. After the death of her father, she had at lease, three illegitimate children, before she Married William Papworth on the 30th July 1848 at the Wesleyan chapel, Biggleswade in Bedfordshire.

Hertford Mercury and Reformer.

Saturday 26th November 1842

Wm. Brown, Thomas Salt, and Richard Salt, were fined 5s., each, for damaging a tree at Sutton.

Sarah Salt, of Sutton was fined 10s., for breaking a hurdle. (Sarah didn't pay her fine, so).

Cambridge Independent Press.

10th December 1842

Committed, Sarah Salt, of Sutton, for 14 days, for breaking a hurdle, belonging to Thomas Masters, of Sutton. (Post of a dead fence.)..

Sarah moved to Australia with her family in the 1850's..

 

WILLIAM, christen on the 10th June 1821, at Sutton in Bedfordshire. I don't know what was going on in November 1842, but it looks like half the Salt family, had been charged with one crime or another. William received 1 Calendar Month Hard Labour 28th November 1842, for Misbehaviour in Service?..

I believe William died in 1852..

 

THOMAS 1823-1844, christen on the 9th March 1823, at Sutton. Along with his younger brother Richard was fined 5s., for damaging an Elm Tree in November 1842. Thomas paid his fined. Richard didn't and was sentenced to 14 days hard labour in December 1842. Thomas died in 1844 aged 21 his burial took place on the 9th March 1844 at All Saints Church, Sutton in Bedfordshire.

 

RICHARD 1825-1898, christen on the 10th April 1825, at Sutton. He Married Caroline Daseley on the 3rd September 1844 at Sutton in Bedfordshire.

It look like Sarah, Thomas, and Richard where only after wood to burn, for the cold weather.

 

SUSANNAH, christen 5th August 1827, at Sutton, No more info at this time.

 

SAMUEL 1832-1834, christen 29th April 1832, burial 25th October 1834 at All Saints Church, Sutton in Bedfordshire.

 

MERCY CHESHAM, christen 22nd June 1834 at Sutton. Like her big sister Mercy had two, illegitimate children, Thomas Salt was christen on the 4th January 1852 at Sutton, and George Salt christen 17th November 1854 at Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire.

On the 15th November 1855, she was sentence to 1 Calendar Month Hard Labour, for vagrancy and deserting her illegitimate child.

Mercy married Richard Howard on the 14th June 1859, at Biggleswade.

Bedfordshire Times and Independent

Saturday 24th August 1861

Mercy Howard and Sarah Austin were charged by George Dalton gardener, with stealing half a peck of potatoes, growing in his field, on the 17th inst.

Fined, including costs, 10s., each, or in default 14 days' imprisonment. Allowed a fortnight.

 

A son Jesse Howard was born in 1862, who was christen on the 30th April 1864, at Biggleswade, Mercy died on the 11th December 1864.

Bedfordshire Times and Independent

Saturday 17th December 1864

BIGGLESWADE

On Monday an inquest was held in the town by Mr. Whyley, deputy-coroner for the county, on the body of Mercy Howard, a young married woman. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been in poor health some time and was near her confinement. On Sunday evening her husband was from home a little time. On his way home two men were fighting near his house. On one of the men falling to the ground he went and picked him up, and got set upon for his interference. About the same time his wife, who was subject to spasms, was taken ill and died almost immediately.

Mr. Sutton, the medical witness, could not exactly state the cause of death but thought it might have been occasioned by fright.

Verdict: Natural causes.

 

Richard remarried, and in 1870, he had a daughter, who he named Mercy. She married Ernest Saunders Howard on the 5th November 1888 at St. Mary's Church Hitchin, in Hertfordshire. George Salt, Mercy Salt's illegitimate son, was one the witnesses.

 

 

JAMES SALT, Married, Eliza Giddings daughter of William at Sutton in Bedfordshire on the 1st May 1854. James and Eliza had nine children between 1854-1877.

William Charles Salt 1854-1874 Sutton Bedfordshire. Christen 25th January 1865 at Biggleswade.

Thomas Salt 1857 Potton Bedfordshire. Christen 28th February 1864 at Biggleswade.

Emma Louisa Salt 1860 ?, Sutton. Christen 28th February 1864 at Biggleswade.

Mary Ann Salt 1862 Sutton Bedfordshire. Christen 28th February 1864 at Biggleswade.

Charles (Cornelius) Salt 1867-1877 Biggleswade Christen 24th March 1876 at Biggleswade.

Mercy Salt 1869. Christen 24th March 1876 at Biggleswade.

John Salt Christen 2nd October 1871. Death 7th October 1871, at Biggleswade.

James Salt 1873 Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

Sarah Jane Salt 1877. Christen 16th February 1877 at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

 

Eliza died in 1880 aged 45. James died on the 2nd November 1915.

 

Biggleswade Chronicle

Friday 05th November 1915

OCTOGENARIAN'S DEATH

We regret to record the death of Mr. James Salt of 19 Cowfairlands, which took place on Tuesday Morning at the great age of 85 years, he was for many years a well-known chimney sweep in the town, and latterly has enjoyed the old-age pension. He has been cared for by his youngest daughter, who kept his house.

 

Biggleswade Chronicle

Friday 12th November 1915

FUNERAL

The Rev. G.H. Strange, M.A. Officiated on Saturday afternaoon at the funeral of the late Mr. James Salt, of Cowfairlands.

The mourners were Miss S. Salt (daughter), Mr. James Salt (son), Mr. and Mrs. A. Woods (son-in-law and daughter), Miss Florence Salt (grand-daughter), and Mrs. Frank Jones.

Floral tributes were sent by the daughters, son and grand-daughters of the deceased, Mrs. Wm. Albone, Mrs. F. Jones, Mrs. Sarah Pates and Miss. M. Warner.

Deceased was 85 years of age. Mr. Geo Styles was the undertaker.

Done