Person:Richard Heaton (3)

LANCASHIRE COUNTY QUARTER SESSIONS Catalogue Ref. Q
Creator‎‎‎‎‎(s)‎‎‎‎‎: Lancashire Quarter Sessions

PETITIONS: Salford: Easter 1832 - ref. QSP/2961
FILE - Bill of costs of prosecution of John Heaton and Richard Heaton - ref. QSP/2961/304 - date: c1832

Possibly in Millgate Prison before transportation

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=253&j=1

ASSO:

1. ↑ SA Death Records
   http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=1997.

   Official history notes about the George Street Asylum, a "Government Asylum for infirm and destitute men", where Richard H Heaton died.
   
   On 13 March 1862 medical and administrative personnel were appointed to George Street Asylum, Parramatta ‎(1)‎, which began functioning as a Government Asylum for infirm and destitute men following the findings of the Report from the Select Committee on the Benevolent Asylum, Sydney ‎(2)‎, and subsequent Government assumption of responsibility for provision for the infirm and destitute. The main building of the George Street Asylum was completed in 1824 and had functioned as a barracks for the military, and later for convicts.‎(3)‎
   
   In 1884 the Asylum accommodated 351 residents, and had acquired an adjacent building used as a Tweed Mill. ‎(4)‎, which was converted for use as hospital wards and remained in use for this purpose until 1920 when it was demolished.‎(5)‎
   
   After administrative responsibility for Government Asylums transferred from the Department of Charitable Institutions to Public Health in 1913, George Street Asylum became known as the State Hospital and Asylum for Aged and Infirm Men, George Street, Parramatta.‎(6)‎
   
   1.NSW Government Blue Book 1862, p.28 2.Report from the Select Committee on the Benevolent Asylum, Sydney, 7 January 1862, in Votes and Proceedings 1861-62, Vol 2, p.910 3.Health Dept, Histories of various NSW Government Hospitals 1879-1980, Folder for Parramatta Asylums, SRNSW Ref: 10/50590 4.Government Asylums for the Infirm and Destitute, Report for 1884, in Votes and Proceedings 1885, Second Session, Vol 2, p.612 5.Health Dept, Histories of various NSW Government Hospitals, op cit 6.Report of the Director-General of Public Health for the year ended 31 December 1913, in Parliamentary Papers 1914-15, Vol 4, p.339

2. ↑ The Bolton Chronicle. (The Bolton Chronicle 8 Jan 1831 to Dec 1832 Reel No NP16280)
   Sat Jan 28 1832, Page 1, 28 JAN 1832.

   Bolton Petty Sessions, Monday Jan 23
   
   Before Major Watkins, Joseph Ridgway, Robert Lomax, and James Kearsley, Esquires, and the Rev. W. Allen.
   
   HIGHWAY ROBBERY - John Heaton and Richard Heaton were committed to the New Bailey, for trial at the next sessions, on a charge of highway robbery. The investigation was a very long one, from which it appeared that as John Horrocks, farmer, of Breightmet, 87 years of age, was returning from Bolton Market, on Saturday the 21st instant, about half-past five o'clock in the evening, he was attacked by some men when within two fields of his residence. They siezed him behind, threw him down and put a plaister over his mouth. He struggled until he managed to get the plaister pulled off his mouth again. They then nearly suffocated him by putting their hands over his mouth, after which the kicked him, and otherwise abused him, and took from his pockets three halfcrowns, and nine or ten shillings in smaller silver. They also took from him a market basket and its contents consisting of groceries, bread, butter &c. They then ran away and on the old man arriving at his own residence, he told the family what had happened, and he also sent his wife to the residence of one of the prisoners, to see if he was at home, but it turned out that he was not. The evidence against the prisoners was of a very strong nature, but entirely circumstantial. They had been seen by different persons, running in the direction which Horrocks had to go on his way home, about the same time; and a young woman who happened to be passing near to the place where the robbery took place, said that she heard a scream of murder, and a little after, she saw the prisoners jump over a hedge and run away. The prisoners denied that they had been in Bolton on the day, but proof was adduced that they were drinking in a New Beer shop in Deansgate from seven till half-past nine o'clock in the evening, and that the beer was paid for in the same description of money as that of which Mr Horrocks was robbed. Major Watkins said that as the evidence, though strong, was entirely circumstantial, he should only commit to the New Bailey; but had it been more direct, he certainly should have committed to Lancaster Castle. The evidence, which was of a very voluminous description, was well got up, and reflects credit upon Mr. R.A. Hibbert, solicitor, who has been indefatigable in his exertion to bring the offenders to justice.

3. ↑
   Sat 14 Apr 1832, 14 APR 1832.

   Salford Easter Sessions.
   
   John Heaton and Richard Heaton, charged with a highway robbery and assult, at Breightmet, upon John Horrocks, of Breightmet, an old man aged 87 years, were found guilty. 14 years transportation each. Quality: High

4. ↑ Heaton: Cotton Bleacher (W. Meredith). (Story of the Heatons from a book by Wendy Meredith)
   ‎‎‎‎‎Wheelers’ Manchester Chronicle, Saturday 14 April 1832. Salford Quarter Sessions Wednesday.

   ‎Richard Heaton, 20, and John Heaton, 25, were indicted for stealing from the person of John Horrox, at Breightmet, on the 21st of January last, about 18s in silver, one pound of butter, and other articles, the property of the said John Horrox. The prosecutor is between 86 and 87 years of age, and the outrage committed upon his person and property was of a most aggravated description. It appeared that he was stopped on his return from the Bolton market to Brightmet, on the evening of the day named in the indictment, by three men, who savagely struck and kicked him and ultimately rifled his pockets and carried of the contents of his market-basket. The evidence against the prisoners, although entirely circumstantial, was as conclusive as the nature of such testimony can be: and, in consideration of the violence exercised and the bad character of the persons charged they were severally sentenced to fourteen years transportation.

5. ↑ Findmypast.com.

   Ship Parmelia (1)
   Arrived 16 11 1832
   Port NSW
   Sailed 28 07 1832
   From Sheerness
   Days 111
   Embarked 200 Males
   Sydney 196 Males
   Master Jas Gilbert
   Surgeon Rchd Allen
   
   http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/shi
   pNSW2.html

6. ↑ Findmypast.com.
7. ↑ SA Death Records
   Ticket no.: 41/581.
8. ↑ SA Death Records
   Index to Deposition Registers.

   Surname HEATON
   Firstname Richard H
   Alias -
   Place of Committal Maitland
   Date of Committal 3 Apr 1868
   Alleged Offence Assault
   Committed for trial at Maitland
   Page Number 090
   Series No NRS 849
   Item No 2
   Reel No 2760

9.   Lancashire County Quarter Sessions Petitions. (Lancashire Record Office: Lancashire County Quarter Sessions Petitions)
   Salford: Easter 1832 - ref. QSP/2961/304 - date: c1832.
10. ↑ Ticket no.: 41/581