Notes for: William Dawes
No baptism found.
From the Cambridgeshire Chronicle and Gazette 19 Mar 1830: Dawes v Dobson
The plaintiff in this case is a carpenter, and the defendant a bricklayer, both living at Trumpington, and the action was brought for slander, in defendant having asserted that the plaintiff stole a quantity of pease, the property of the Rev Mr Hewitt, who holds a farm in the parish of Grantchester -- Martha Green said, the defendant asked her if she had heard that the plaintiff had been stealing Mr Hewitt's pease; she said yes, but did not believe it; he replied, but you may, for I have been to Mr Hewitt's steward, who told me it was true; and also that he was caught in the man-trap that was set in Mrs Humphrey's garden, and further that he would have no more to do with him for he (plaintiff) was a rogue and a gallows rogue. -- Several other witnesses proved that a similar allegation was made in their hearing by the defendant, who said that the steward had told him such was the case. The witnesses admitted on cross-examination that the report was quite prevalent, and one or two of them had heard of it before the defendant told them. -- Mr Kelly, for the defendant, said, words were not actionable unless the party sustained special damage, and it was not attempted to prove that such was the case in this instance. All the witnesses agreed that the report was abroad before the defendant had any thing to do with it. No malice was intended by the defendant from the report; and he did not say that he knew it himself, but that the steward told him. -- The learned Judge said it was necessary that a party should be able to prove that such and such words or allegations were true before he uttered them; it was not sufficient to say that he had heard them, and they were currently reported. -- After a short discussion, with the advice of his Lordship, a verdict was given for the plaintiff -- damages 40s.
Cambridge Chronicle 27 Apr 1844:
Wm. Smith, shoemaker, of Trumpington, who had been charged on oath, on the 1st of April, by William Dawes, with the suspicion of having sundry articles his property, consisting of pictures, chisels, squares, centre-bits, &c., was brought up for further examination. - Mr. Cooper appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cannon for the defence. George Cooper, of the Bell, Trumpington street, proved that the prisoner offered him various articles for sale above five weeks ago, but could not swear those produced were the same. - William Dawes, the prosecutor, lives at Trumpington. His counting-house is on the premises. The counting-house, shop, and house are all within one fence. Was there on the afternoon of Sunday, the 3rd of March, at half-past 4. Went there on Monday morning about half-past 7. Found the room in an uproar, and missed many things. Found pictures, tools, and other goods had been taken away. Made a list of the articles lost, which he now read. There were five large pictures, one oil and four prints: two in oak frames were left behind. The rest of the goods consisted of two musical snuff-boxes, a clasp-knife with a buck-horn handle for carving wood; an elastic shaving-machine with a glass behind it; fourteen centre-bits; two chisels; a brass-backed saw; and divers other things. - Some further evidence was given, and the case was adjourned until Wednesday.
Cambridge Chronicle 27 Jul 1844:
PRISONERS.
(Before Baron Alderson.)
William Smith, aged 29, of Trumpington, shoemaker, was indicted for having, on the night of the 3rd, or morning of the 4th of March last, feloniously broken and entered the counting-house of William Dawes, carpenter and builder, at Trumpington, and stolen therefrom five pictures, a pistol, 14 centre bits, an elastic shaving-machine, a saw, a frock-coat, two musical snuff-boxes, and other articles. Mr. BURCHAM prosecuted, and Mr. PRENDERGAST defended the prisoner. - William Dawes was in his counting-house on the afternoon of Sunday, the 3rd of March, when everything was in a safe and proper state: next morning the whole place was in confusion: he missed the various articles named in the indictment. The door was locked on the Monday morning, and it did not appear how an entrance had been effected; the lock was a very common one. Prisoner was in the habit of being occasionally on his premises. About a fortnight after the robbery, in a conversation with prisoner, he said he had the things, but he found them near Headland's garden. - Mr. PRENDERGAST cross-examined prosecutor with a view of showing that the place broken into was not "a counting-house," but in this he failed. The men in prosecutor's employ had been on the premises on the Monday morning before he discovered the robbery, and they were in the habit, but not without the knowledge of himself or wife, of taking the key of the counting-house to take out nails, &c - John Nicholls, parish-constable of Trumpington, searched prisoner's house on the 26th of March, and he said he found the things first in Trumpington-street, and then in Silver-street, at 4 o'clock, in the afternoon, in a brown paper parcel: the pistol, he said, he borrowed of a man at Cambridge, but he did not know where he lived. Found none of the property in prisoner's house. - George Hayward, landlord of the Bell public-house, Cambridge, deposed to the prisoner having offered various of the articles stolen for sale at his house, towards the end of May. - James Hellit, shoemaker, of Granchester, deposed to the prisoner having, about the 19th or 20th of May, offered to sell him a brass-barrelled pistol, first for 1s 6d and then for 1s. - Thomas Whittacker, picture-dealer, Cambridge, bought several of the pictures lost, from a person like the prisoner, in March, - Edward Morris, bookseller and picture-dealer, had some of the pictures offered for sale in March, by a person whom he could not identify. - Charles Wilson, gamekeeper to Colonel Pemberton, about a quarter before 2 on the morning of the 4th of March, saw prisoner in the street at Trumpington, about 70 yards from prosecutor's house. - His Lordship thought there was no case for the jury; the prisoner was therefore acquitted.
From The London Gazette 1848 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/20916/pages/4160/page.pdf):
WHEREAS a Petition of William Dawes, at present, and for about thirty years last past, residing at Trumpington, in the parish of Trumpington, in the county of Cambridge, carring on the business of a Carpenter and Builder, and also for the last fourteen years Parish Clerk of the parish church of Trumpington aforesaid, his wife, Frances Dawes, during the last six years past, at the aforesaid residence, carrying on the business of a Laundress, an insolvent debtor, having been filed in the County Court of Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge, and an interim order for protection from process having been given to the said William Dawes, under the provisions of the Statutes in that case made and provided, the said William Dawes is hereby required to appear before the said Court, on the 28th day of November instant, at two o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for his first examination touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provisions of the said Statutes; and the choice of the creditors' assignees is to take place at the time so appointed. All persons indebted to the said William Dawes, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. Thomas John Barstow, the Clerk of the said Court, at the office of the said Court, No. 16, Sidney-street, in Cambridge, the Official Assignee of the estate and effects of the said insolvent.