>From Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, August 15, 1840; Issue 4555. OXFORDSHIRE ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. - It will be in the recollection of many of our readers that in the action, HARDY v GREENWOLLERS , which came on for trial at our last Assizes, a verdict was found for the plaintiff with 2000 pounds damages; but that such verdict should be conditional only, and subject to the award of William CRIPPS , Esq., barrister at law. We now learn that the arbitrator has made his award in this case, directing such verdict to be set aside, and, instead thereof, a verdict to be entered for the defendant on each and all the issues.

On 21/07/2011 10:46, MICHAELCOOMBER@aol.com wrote: > >> From Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, August 15, 1840; Issue 4555. > > OXFORDSHIRE ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. - It will be in the recollection of > many of our readers that in the action, HARDY v GREENWOLLERS , which came on > for trial at our last Assizes >... The report of the nisi prius case at the assizes appears in JOJ on 25 July 1840 (under the name "Hardy v. Greenwallers".) Mr Hardy was the executor of a Mr Wastie; the defendant Greenwallers was the sister of the late Mr Wastie, and apparently owed him money. Greenwallers or Greenwollers isn't a name you come across that often, so I thought it should be too difficult to identify which Mr and Miss Wastie were involved. There is a Charles Greenwallers buried at St Peter in the East in 1792, and in 1791 in the same place an Eliza Greenwallers, infant. And turning to the baptisms, a Frances GRUNWALLER daughter of Charles and Mary Harriotte baptised in 1788, and a Maria Anne GRUNWOLLER, daughter of the same parents, baptised in 1789. A little bit of digging turns up in the 1841 census a Mary GREENWOOLERS in Tubney, Berkshire (aged "70"), living with a Frances SYMS ("45") and Emily SYMS (aged 10). This is presumably the defendant in Hardy v. Greenwollers, with her daughter Frances baptised in 1788. However, still no link to the WASTIE family. Ah, but earlier in the same article in JOJ on the nisi prius cases at the assizes is "Hunt v. Lockhart". The newspaper states "The plaintiff ... [had] formerly been in the service of John Ingram Lockhart, Esq., otherwise Wastie, deceased..." and that he "sought to recover of the defendant, a brother of the deceased". So the maiden name of Mrs Greenwollers is likely to have been Lockhart, not Wastie. And the same newspaper account includes mention of a John Hardy, agent and steward to the late Mr Lockhart (the plaintiff in Hardy v. Greenwollers), that Mr Lockhart had changed his name to Wastie about 3 years before his death, and that he (Hardy) had also acted for the deceased sister, Mrs Greenwaller. At this stage, I still hadn't found a marriage between Mary Lockhart and Charles Greenwallers - I wonder what his name was originally? But there is a marriage at Great Haseley in 1804 between John Ingram Lockhart, bart, of St Johns Holborn, and Mary Gibbard Wastie. And now much more becomes apparent - Lockhart was one of the MPs for Oxford; and there is a private act for his change of name to Wastie: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=19257#s8 Oh, and here in the IGI is that marriage: Charles Greenwollers married to Mary Harriot Lockhart at St Paul, Covent Garden, London, in June 1787. A notice in the London Gazette for the dissolution of a partnership shows Charles was a linen draper. That's probably enough of that. Some lessons: it's a useful hint to look at all the cases in the law report, not just the one of immediate interest. And my initial assumption that Mrs Greenwallers was formerly Miss Wastie appears to have been quite wrong. And a question: does anyone know if there is a link between Mary Gibbard Wastie and Francis Wastie of Great Haseley, and the Wastie family of Eynsham and district? Best wishes Paul -- Paul Betteridge, Leafield, Oxfordshire pbetteridge@pobox.com