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Local News on this day 24th November 1863. Information
from Philippa Jane.
Ceila Richardson applied that George Bowes might be bound over to keep
the peace towards her, as she was in danger of her life. It appeared
from the evidence of the complainant, that Bowes had been to a beershop,
kept by his brother on Sunday 22nd November and created a disturbance,
and had done so on several occasions before. Bowes visited the house
while she was out for a walk, and on her return she heard "high words"
used between William Bowes (to whom she was housekeeper), the defendant
and another man, concerning herself and she heard the defendant
distinctly say he would "do something" for her. The quarrel afterwards
became more fierce and the complainant was compelled to keep herself
from the presence of the defendant altogether.
The defendant said the
complainant lived with his brother, by whom she had several children,
and finding that the family belonging to his first wife was used cruelly
by the complainant, he had sometimes called his brother's attention to
it and had so on the day in question.
The defendant then narrated at
great length certain facts, from which it appeared that the complainant
and his brother lived together as man and wife, she having deserted her
own husband, which seemed to have occasioned much anxiety to several
members of defendant's family.
He had never used any words which would
show that he entertained malicious intentions against the complainant,
and in answer to the Bench, said he would promise not to interfere with
her at all.
The Bench remarking that whatever occurred between the
complainant and his brother's children had nothing to do with him.
Interestingly the 1861 census shows William Bowes living with Celia
Richardson at St Peter's Street, Maidstone, she is described as his
cousin and they have eight children between them. His occupation at this
time, a bricklayer. By the 1871 census, the census gives their status as
married and his occupation as bricklayer and "Little Star" Beer Shop, and
their address as 33 Brewer Street/2 Woollett Street.
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