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Trying to find trial Records

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Pamela

Pamela Report 5 Nov 2007 19:06

Vyk...

There is also the National Newspaper Archive at Collingdale, London which may have more than one newspaper reporting the incident.

Good luck... !

Victoria

Victoria Report 5 Nov 2007 08:46

Hi Micheal Thankyou so much for this information this answers quite alot & gives me an excuse to go to Kew as I would like to know whether Thomas was convicted & also what happened the rest of the Family. If I amnage to get to Kew I will deffinately keep and eye out for John Burgess. Idont know if you know but their is a Yahoo E-group for people Researching Ascention History. My Grt Grt Grandmother Annie Herring was born on Ascention in 1852. Elizabeth Perkins her Mother married within Months of her Fathers Death at a very young age. Best Wishes Vyk

webwiz

webwiz Report 4 Nov 2007 17:39

Have a look at http://www.pastfinders.net/trialinfo.htm
this is a firm that charges extortionate rates but they do give a useful description of the records available (nothing much on line).

Also found by entering the names into http://www.a2a.org.uk/:

Treasury Solicitor: General Series Papers TS 18/62
Murder at Ascension Island: John Perkins, Q.M.S. of Royal Marines at Ascension, murdered as a result of a drunken quarrel with Thomas Peel, engine fitter, his son-in-law. Statements of witnesses at court-martial, and correspondence . Murder at Ascension
Date: 1851.
Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives
You will have to go to the National Archives, Kew to read this paper.


My great-grandmother was born on Ascension in 1856. Her father was serving in the Marines and may have been there in 1851. I have not been able to find out much, so wish you good luck with your research. If you do go to Kew would you keep an eye out for any reference to John Burgess.

Heather

Heather Report 4 Nov 2007 17:39

I found a court case just by entering a rellies name in National Archives search.

Of course, having re read that, your chaps army records may record some detail.

Pamela

Pamela Report 4 Nov 2007 17:25

Perhaps the Times archives would be a good place, if it was a murder trial it may have been covered.

Victoria

Victoria Report 4 Nov 2007 16:48

Hi I have been researching my tree for a few years now and I have discovered that one of my Grt Grt Grt Grandfather was Murdered possibly by his own Son-in-Law who had married his Eldest Daughter the Previous year.
He was Royal Marine Sargent John Perkins, who died on 19 Jul 1851, On Acention Island Africa. He is said to have been Murdered by an Engineer known as Peel. A Thomas Peel married John's Eldest Daughter Mary and is the most likely culprit. Although the Crime as Committed on the Island, the Prisoner & Witnesses were brought to England for the Trial. What I would like to know is where would I find a record of this trial so that I could find what happened to this family. Best Wishes Victoria Hadley (nee Knight)