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Museum Ref No: MAR 359.97King's Customs by Henry Atton & Henry Hurst Holland, published by John Murray, London, 1908. Pages 212 - 216 (Footnote)
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Extract from Salisbury Journal 12th October 1747 describing a raid on Poole Custom House.
The 'Company of persons' are the Hawkhurst Gang (KH)
Newspaper
Extract from the Salisbury Journal 26th October 1747. A number of the gang of smugglers who broke into the Custom House at Poole have been captured at Dalton by a party of Dragoons.
(The 'gang of smugglers' are known as the Hawkhurst Gang- KH)
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Extract from the Salisbury Journal 30th August 1756. Woman dies from husband's beating.
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The Dorchester Prison Admission and Discharge Registers 1782-1901 can be found at Dorset History Centre and on Ancestry. The registers contain a number of different records documenting prisoners in Dorchester Prison. Details vary but you could find: name, age, place of origin, city of residence, trade, marital status or family, number of children, physical characteristics: height, hair color, eye color, complexion, marks and crimes.
There are gaps in the years that are covered. For example, years 1807–1808, 1837, and 1880–1886 are missing.
Poole History Centre Volunteers have searched the records and transcribed the Poole people, attached is an alphabetical list by surname.
Database
Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423Dorset Smugglers by Roger Guttridge, published by Dorset Publishing Co.,Sherborne, 1984. Illus. ISBN 0902129 53 8. Pages 36-42
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Extract from The Poole Pilot July 1868. Murder of Ann Hancock, 17. George Ivamy sent to trial.
Newspaper
Museum Ref No: PLA 942.337History of the Town and County of Poole by John Sydenham, Poole, Sydenham, 1839 Pages 142-144
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Museum Ref No: PEO 364.1523High Street Murders 1598 by Pat Wilnecker, published by the Borough of Poole Museums Service, 1980. Illus ISBN 0 86251 001 5
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Extract from Salisbury Journal on 2nd December 1740 reporting the brutal murder of Joan Mew of Witchampton. Her body was discovered on the heath at Parkstone.
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