Hi Elizabeth Thanks for pointing that out. That record came up when I searched on Ancestry but in my excitement at finding him in the Prison Hulk list I missed it! Wikipedia says the curtilage of a house is the land surrounding it (with a stack of provisos). Maybe the fact that he did not enter the dwelling is why he got Life. All the other burglars listed got sentenced to Death though one had the sentence commuted to Life. Now all I need to do is find where the house and curtilage were situated. Best wishes fro Diana Sent from my iPad > On 28 Dec 2013, at 11:11 pm, "elizabeth howard" <elizgh@btinternet.com> wrote: > > Hi, Ancestry`s Criminal registers 1791-1892 shows a number > of John Bishops being tried over the years in the Devon assizes , the one in > 1831 is at the Lent Assizes and is accused of " Breaking within the > curtilage and stealing " I am not sure exactly what that means but he got > Life . So his crime seems to be in a different category . I checked the > 1841 census in case I could find him in Exeter Gaol but without success. > There may be Gaol registers somewhere , DRO will know . > > > > > > life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diana Stevens" <diagramdiana@iinet.net.au> > To: <devon@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 1:07 PM > Subject: [DEV] John BISHOP convicted at Exeter 1831 > > >> Seasons greetings to all. >> >> For years I have been trying to find out what happened to my >> GG-Grandfather John BISHOP. He disappeared ca 1830-1831. >> >> I have now found in Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette of 19 Mar 1831 >> the Calendar for the Lent Assizes in Exeter which includes a John BISHOP >> age 27 (he was bap 10 Apr 1803 at Teigngrace) accused of burglary. >> >> I have also found the sentence/acquittal of 5 of the other 6 burglars on >> the list in the E&PG of 26 Mar 1831 but not John. >> >> I have found him in a prison hulk, with a life sentence, convicted at >> Exeter on 17 Mar 1831 of 'breaking into a house with tools'. >> >> I can't find him in any of the Australian Convict Indexes but of course >> not all the prisoners on hulks were transported. Before I do anything else >> I need to find where the crime took place so that I can judge if he is my >> John. >> >> A report in The North Devon Journal and General Advertiser of 31 Mar 1831 >> gives the sentence of the 6th burglar but not John. The article is >> 'concluded from our last' but despite trying many names of other >> prisoners in the Calendar I can't find the previous NDJ. >> >> Trove, the Australian newspaper site allows you to search for a specific >> paper by date but that does not seem possible on FMP. >> >> Any suggestions gratefully received. >> >> Best wishes from Diana in Perth WA >> DFHS 8119 >> ------------------------------------------ >> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >> and >> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >> List archive for Devon can be found at >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message