Notes for: John Rowling
Cambridge Chronicle 9 Sep 1848:
HOUSE & BAKE-OFFICE TO LET, NEWMARKET.
TO LET, with immediate possession, - A substantial well-built HOUSE, with seven rooms, and BAKE-OFFICE, excellent oven and shop-front, in an increasing neighbourhood, near the Railway Station.
Application to be made to Mr. ROWLING, Builder, Trumpington, Cambs.
Cambridge Chronicle 8 Jun 1850:
John Rawling, of Trumpington, builder, appeared to a summons granted on the complaint of the Guardians of the Newmarket Union, under the Nuisances Act, alleging that there was a drain and certain privies on his property at Newmarket All Saints, which were a nuisance, and injurious to the health of the occupiers of the cottages. The defendant agreed to abate the nuisance within a week, and the magistrates signed an order to that effect.
Cambridge Chronicle 31 May 1851:
CAMBRIDGE DIVISION PETTY SESSIONS.
SATURDAY, MAY 24.
(Before the Revs. W. Smith and J. Thornhill; and J. P. Baumgartner Esq.)
TRUMPINGTON. - John Rowling, of Trumpington, appeared by Mr. BELL, his attorney, to a summons charging him with cruelty to an animal, having impounded a cow, the property of Mr. John Toller, of the same place, and kept the said cow without food for 24 hours. Convicted in penalty of £1, and £1 5s. expences.
Cambridge Independent Press 26 Feb 1853:
Mr. Rowling, farmer, of Trumpington, was charged with pound breach, he having caused to be liberated two sheep and two lambs, his property, which had been seized on land in the occupation of Mr. C. Wilson. It appears that 1s. was tendered for the damage done, which being rejected, the defendant committed the offence he was charged with. Mr. NAYLOR appeared for the defendant. - The Bench fined Mr. Rowling 7s. and expenses.
From the Bury and Norwich Post, 28 Mar 1855:
To builders, surveyors of highways, and others.
Five thousand yards of building flints and 20,000 yards of first-rate road flints, delivered in trucks at any station on the Eastern Counties Railway between Bury, Royston, and St Ives; will be supplied on advantageous terms. -- Application to be made to Mr John Rowling, builder, Trumpington.
Cambridge Independent Press 4 Aug 1855:
An Irishman Charged with Stealing Fruit. - On Monday last, John Dains, an Irishman, was brought before Mr. Ficklin, at Mr. Barlow’s office, charged with stealing fruit on Sunday morning, from a garden belonging to Mr. Rowling, of Trumpington. Magistrate, to the defendant: "What have you to say?" Defendant: "Please your Worship, I’ll throw myself upon the mercy of the Court, and I hope you will have mercy upon me.: - Magistrate: "What are you?" Defendant: "I am an Irishman: I came to this country in my youthful days." - Magistrate: "What have you to say in answer to the charge?" Defendant: "Please your Worship, I acknowledge I’ve committed myself, and ye may do as ye plase with me." - Magistrate: "What is your employment?" Defendant: "To tell ye the truth, you Worship, I want to get up to Babraham for work, and I hope ye will have pity on me". Magistrate: "It is a very serious offence, and you must either pay the expenses or go to prison." -Defendant: "I haven’t got one farthing in the world." - Magistrate: "Then you must go to prison for seven days, with hard labour, and take care for the future." Defendant: "I am much obleeged to your Worship, I’ll take care another time."
Bury Free Press 26 Sep 1857:
MILDENHALL.
COUNTY COURT, SEPTEMBER 21.
Before J. Worlledge, Esq., Judge.
Fletcher v. Rowling. - Claim £30. The plaintiff is the owner of some property at Kentford, and the defendant a contractor at Trumpington, near Cambridge. It appeared that the defendant agreed for the purchase of gravel from Plaintiff’s lands, and that he was to level the soil; in lieu of this he allowed the soil to be put into a pit belonging to the Newmarket Railway Company, and it was carted away and used by them. - Verdict for Plaintiff - Damages £18 6s. 3d. - Mr. Salmon appeared for plaintiff; Mr. Naylor for defendant.