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From: "Diana Ingram" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] bankrupt
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:14:52 -0000
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You can also look on GENUKI for Insolvent Debtors for Devon (by Lindsey
Withers) various dates, which gives a lot of detail about people petitioning
for their release from prison.

My particular interest William GIBBINGS from Bampton is on there in 1835.
He was "relieved" of his interest in the Town Mill or Bampton Mill left to
him by his father. It was taken on by Trustees on behalf of his four sons.

Diana


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Bruce" <>
To: "'Marion'" <>; "'Devon mailing list'"
<>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [DEV] bankrupt


> <<snipped>>
> Did you find out if Henry Marley was released before he died?
> <<snipped>>
>
> Yes he was - he seems to have been insolvent from (at least) June 1840 to
> his release in November 1840 - things like the London Gazette and the
> Bristol Mercury help. Most of the articles are concerned with his
> release -
> asking for objectors, I guess.
>
> Then again in 1846 - the London Gazette of 6 November 1846 contains a
> notice
> that Henry was to be brought before a Commissioner on Circuit from the
> Court
> for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. I can't find confirmation in those
> papers of his release on the 2nd occasion but he was certainly out in the
> 1851 census.
>
> I've not yet found out exactly why he was in debt, but Bristol RO tell me
> he's mentioned in the June 1840 records of Bristol's Court of Requests
> (which dealt with small debts) and which I've yet to check. It may be that
> the two periods are connected but certainly the first period seems very
> short if the court case was in June and he was being released in the
> November. Hence my cynicism about Victorian melodramas condemning everyone
> for all eternity!
>
> I didn't find much of use at TNA other than index entries for his case.
>
> Other places may record such cases in different courts.
>
> Adrian B
>
>
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