Person:James Savage (21)

12 Jun 1814 / James / son of Robert & Ann / Water Lane / Pattern maker

Address: County Gaol, Winchester, Hampshire
[Many inmates, including:]
James Savage, male, 27 [1813/4], Last maker, born in county
[whole institution not transcribed]

Address: Boundary Row, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
James Savage, head, married, male, 36 [1814/5], Last Maker, b. Winchester, Hampshire
Susan Savage, wife, married, female, 40 [1810/11], b. Bryerly Hill, Staffordshire

James appears to have died sometime between the 1851 census and December 1862, when Susanna remarried, describing herself as a widow. The following are all deaths for people called James Savage within England and Wales between those dates for whom the age implies born between 1809 and 1819:

d. James SAVAGE, March Quarter 1853, Liverpool Registration District, Volume 8b, page 178, aged 34 [1818/19]
d. James SAVAGE, March Quarter 1855, Alverstoke Registration District, Volume 2b, page 368, aged 35 [1819/20]
d. James SAVAGE, September Quarter 1857, Carlisle Registration District, Volume 10b, page 244, aged 37 [1819/20]
d. James SAVAGE, December Quarter 1857, Alton Registration District, Volume 2c, page 95, aged 37 [1819/20]
d. James SAVAGE, March Quarter 1859, Winchester Registration District, Volume 2c, page 69, aged 39 [1819/20]
d. James SAVAGE, June Quarter 1859, Huddersfield Registration District, Volume 9a, page 229, aged 45 [1813/14]
d. James Henry SAVAGE, Marylebone Registration District, Volume 1a, page 338, aged 46 [1819/20]
d. James SAVAGE, March Quarter 1862, Clerkenwell Registration District, Volume 1b, page 413, aged 47 [1814/15]
d. James SAVAGE, September Quarter 1862, Warrington Registration District, Volume 8c, page 56, aged 47 [1814/15]

None are particularly close to where James had been living in 1851. The closest, in Huddersfield in 1859, had an obituary notice in the Huddersfield Chronicle, describing him as a boatman; a very different trade to last maker. In light of the 1861 newspaper report and prison record below for a last maker called James Savage of the correct age convicted of indecently assaulting a girl and being sent to Cold Bath Fields prison, which was in Clerkenwell district, it is considered that the 1862 death in Clerkenwell is the most likely to be him.

MARRIAGES...
On Monday, Mr. James Savage, last maker, to Mrs. Susanna Homer.

WORKSOP.
WORKSOP BENCH.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13.
(Before the Rev. George Mason, Robert Ramsden, Esq., and Captain Welfitt.)
James Savage, of Worksop, last maker, was charged by Mr. Curzon, constable, with being drunk and disorderly near the George Inn, Worksop, on Thursday, the 7th inst.
The charge was fully proved, and
The defendant, in defence, stated that he went to the George Inn with a man of the same trade, who, with another man, were the principal aggressors.
Fined 13s, including the expenses.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct. 16.
(Before the Assistant-Judge.)
James Savage, 47, last-maker, was indicted at the instance of the Associate Institute for Promoting and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women, for unlawfully and indecently assaulting Ruth Elizabeth Goodier.
Mr. Kemp was counsel for the prosecution; Mr. F.H. Lewis for the defence.
The parties lived in Dove-court, Leather-lane, and it appeared that the prisoner, while in a state of intoxication, enticed the girl, who was only nine years of age, from her parents' door, and committed an assault upon her.
He was found Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to nine months' hard labour.

Summary:
Name: James Savage
Age: 47 [1813/14]
Occupation: Last-maker
Offence: Unlawfully and indecently assaulting Ruth Elizabeth Goodier
Punishment summary: 9 Calendar Months. House of Correction, Cold Bath Field
Trial date: 16 Oct 1861