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| 451 | DIED. On the 23rd ult., aged 17, at the residence of his father, at Douglas, Isle of Man, George Brogdon Coldicott, son of Mr. John Waters Coldicott, late of this City. | Coldicott, George Brogdon (I12174)
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| 452 | DIED. On the 25th June, at Liverpool, John Marriott Caldecott, Esq., late Liet. 67th Regt., son of the late Abraham Caldecott, Esq., of Rugby Lodge, aged 67. | Caldecott, John Marriott (I4525)
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| 453 | DIED. On the 3rd inst., at Rugby, Ellen, wife of Edmund Harris, Esq., and daughter of Thomas Caldecott, Esq., aged 29 years. | Caldecott, Ellen (I4838)
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| 454 | DIED. - ... On Thursday last, Ann, the beloved wife of Mr. Oswald Caldicott, of St. George's Crescent, in this town. | Coldicott, Ann (I12259)
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| 455 | DIED. - ... On Wednesday last, aged 6a, Anne, the beloved wife of Mr. John Caldicott, of the Wellington-road. | Croydon, Anne (I8306)
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| 456 | DIED. - On Friday last, in his 79th year, Mr. John Caldicott, of Frederick-street, Edgbaston. | Caldicott, John (I9268)
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| 457 | DIED. - On Tuesday week, in his 77th year, Mr. Joseph Waters Coldicott, of Coventry. | Coldicott, Joseph Waters (I12184)
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| 458 | DIED.At his seat, Holbrook Grange, Warwickshire, on Thursday, the 10th inst., John Caldecott, Esq., in the 88th year of his age, respected and regretted. | Caldecott, John (I2326)
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| 459 | DIVIDENDS to be made to Creditors. John Waters Coldicott, of Coventry, Leather-seller, at the Craven Arms Hotel, Coventry. | Coldicott, John Waters (I12165)
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| 460 | EBENEZER ROBINS & CORNELIUS ROBINS, Surveyors, Auctioneers, and Appraisers, having completed the period of their Partnership, beg leave to state, that at the commencement of 1840 they will continue their business in all tits branches in conjunction with their experienced Assistants, Mr. LEONARD CALDICOTT and Mr. JOSEPH FARROR, under the firm of E. and C. ROBINS and COMPANY; and each party hopes that their individual and combined exertions will be satisfactory to their Friends and the Public. 47, New-street, Birmingham, December 21, 1839. | Caldicott, Leonard (I1939)
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| 461 | EDGBASTON OLD CHURCH. - ...Overseers:...Oswald Caldicott | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 462 | EDGBASTON PARISH. - ...Parish wardens and overseers (ex officio): ...Oswald Caldicott | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 463 | EDGBASTON. - ...Overseers. - These gentlemen with the following will constitute the Select Vestry - ...Oswald Caldicott | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 464 | EDGBASTON. - ...Overseers...Oswald Caldicott | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 465 | EDGBASTON. - ...Overseers;...Oswald Caldicott | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 466 | EDGBASTON. - ...Overseers;...Oswald Caldicott | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 467 | EDGBASTON. - SELECT VESTRY: ...Overseers: ...Oswald Caldicott | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 468 | ENGAGED The engagement is announced of Miss Joyce Caldicott, daughter of Mrs. Caldicott, of Tewkesbury, and of the later Mr. J. C. Caldicott, to Mr. J. E. Chatworthy, of Sarimba, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chatworthy, of Cutsey Trull, Taunton. | Family: James Edward Clatworthy / Joyce Caldicott (F3715)
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| 469 | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... *New [FUNE] MISS CONSTANCE CALDICOTT The funeral service took place at All Saints' Church, Gainsborough, yes terday (Thursday) of Miss Constance Caldicott, of 55, Morton Terrace, G ainsborough. Eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Caldicott , she died at the Bromhead Nursing Home, Lincoln, on Tuesday morning fo llowing a brief illness. Always a devout worker for the Church, Miss Caldicott had been connecte d with the work of three parishes in Gainsborough: Holy Trinity, St. Mi chael's, and latterly the parish of All Saints. She was a member of the All Saints' Parish Council and too an interest i n the Conservative Party, being a member of the Women's Unionist Associ ation. The service was conducted by the Rev. Canon J. E. Roberts, Vicar of All S aints, and the Rev J. G. Morton-Howard, Vicar of Worksop (brother-in-la w) and Rev. A. C. Morton-Howard, Vicar of Clifford, Boston Spa (nephew) . Interment was at Morton Cemetery, the graveside service being said by t he Rev. J. G. Morton-Howard. MOURNERS Family mourners present were: Mrs J. G. Morton-Howard (sister), Mr. W. H . Caldicott, J. P. (brother), Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Caldicott (brother and s ister-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Drakes, Mr. and Mrs. D. Youle, Mr. W. H . Caldicott, jnr. (nephews and nieces). Owing to illness, Miss. Gertrud e Caldicott (sister) and Mrs. W. H. Caldicott (sister-in-law) were unab le to be present. Mourners present in Church were: Mr. A. Dawber and Mr. E. A. Donson (Ch urchwardens); Mrs G. W. Belton; Mrs T. Anderson; Mrs R. Clear; Miss M. W ilkinson; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith; Miss L. Bland; Mrs Keeping; Mrs K. U nderwood; Mrs. D. Left; Mrs M. E. Taylor; Mrs. A. S. Curtis, Mr. and Mr s. H. J. Bray; Rev. C. H. Evison; Rev. P. M. Freeman; Mr. F. Bettison; M rs. F. Bowman; Nurse Jinks; Mrs. W. T. Scott; County. N. D. Marshall an d Mrs Marshall (also representing Women's Unionist Association and Mrs. L . Wall);Mr. B. J. Layne; Miss H. C. Bentley; Mrs. E. Ellis; Mrs. E. A. R undell; Mrs. Gaymer Harris; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cross; Miss. D. Dixon; M iss K. Neville; Mrs. E. Robinson; Miss E. Harpham, Mrs. E. Druce; Miss E . Rodgers; Mrs. C. Hilton; Mrs. P. Roberts; Mr.and Mrs. G. Clarke; Mrs. H . Brumby. FLORAL TRIBUTES Floral tributes were received from Gertrude; Will, Nan and Bill; Charle s and Dorothy; Hilda and Morton; Nephews and nieces - Peter and Helen ( New Zealand), Don and Kath, Win and Alan, Don and Joan; Nephew and niec e Alban and May (Clifford); Margaret Gary;Edmond and Anne Rundell and A ngela; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith; Market Place and Trinity Street Staff; S cunthorpe and Bring Staff; Florence; Evelyn and Nellie; Gertrude Ruth a nd Margaret; Mr. and Mrs. N. Croft and Maureen Anne; Betty; Mrs. Hind a nd Mrs. Weeks; Mrs. B. Pumfrey; Harry and Lucy Cross; Irene Kidney; Mrs . R. N. Daniels and Mrs. A. Derrick; Mr. Curtis and family; Mr. and Mrs . F. G. Tolman; George and Violet Savage; Dr. and Mrs. Annison (Worksop ); Mrs. Alice Moore and Margaret (Worksop); Emmeline; Doris Left; Mrs H edge., All Saints' Church, 53, 23, 46, 1 | Caldicott, Constance (I6616)
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| 470 | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... *New [LATR] Mecca of town sport for the last 100 years, the Northolme football grou nd saved from the builder in 1946 by brothers Mr. W. H. and Mr. C. H. C aldicott, then chairman and hon. manager, respectively of Gainsborough T rinity Football Club, has been "sold, lock, stock and barrel" to the Tr inity Supporters' Club. The ground was then owned in 1946 by Lt. Col. Edmund Bacon who had acqu ired it through the state of his uncle, Sir Hickman Bacon, who had died t he previous year. As there was a distinct danger of the ground being bu ilt on, the Caldicott brothers bought iton the understanding that it sh ould be used for town sport. Now following the death of Mr. W. H. Caldicott, his brother has decided " to prevent complications in the future," to sell the ground to the Trin ity Supporters Club for a sim of £4,000. This sum includes all the stands, the cricket pavilion, turnstiles and, i n fact, everything on the ground and all the equipment. It was in 1921 that the brothers Caldicott, whose father, the late Mr. C harles Caldicott had assisted the club for many years, came to the club 's rescue financially. The company which had owned the accommodation, s tands etc., went into voluntary liquidation and Messrs. Caldicott paid a ll the debts. A contract has been drawn up and signed. It provides for facilities bei ng given to the town cricket club, Gainsborough Britannia, who have bee n using the ground for Bassetlaw League matches in the summer for over 5 0 years, and also for the local leagues on which to play their key matc hes. In other words the ground is saved for all time for the town's spo rt and is designated in the Town Plan as an open space. The trustees have drawn up an agreement with the parent football club t o let it to them for a period of ten years at the present nominal rent w ith the option of another ten years. They will have the right to sub-le t, for any function provided it does notinterfere with the playing of f ootball and cricket. Now all this goes into the assets which the Supporters' Club have accru ed with the ground. ADMIRES WORK OF SUPPORTERS' CLUB Mr. Caldicott, now chairman of the club, so admired the work of the Sup porters' Club and considers the officials as being men of sound judgeme nt and business ability that he thinks they are the right people to hav e charge of "this home of sport." It will be vested in four trustees, Messrs. A. H. Kirkby, chairman of t he Supporters' Club, M. R. S. Wallhead, general secretary, Mr. A. Bonni ngton, treasure, and Mr. C. S. Swinton, one of the vice chairmen. Mr. Caldicott commented yesterday when the agreements were finally comp leted: "I think this is a very happy arrangement. It is only right that t he Supporters' Club should have control of the ground, as they have don e, and are doing a great deal for the parent club. "Additionally, certain structural alterations are to be made inn the ne xt few years, especially with regard to the North Street frontage which w ill have to be set back at the request of the County Planning Committee , so that it is vital that the new owners should be those to receive an y compensation. It is also planned to make other improvements to the gr ound." Mr. Caldicott said he was most grateful for the way the Supporters' Clu b had come to the aid of the parent club for some years and he appealed t o the sportsmen of the town to rally round and make Gainsborough Trinit y a really prosperous and successful club." Spokesman for the Supporters' Club, Mr. "Tony" Wallhead, said with the h elp of the sportsmen of the town and the continued success of the Suppo rters' Club he hoped it would be possible to pay off the loan which the y had raised to meet the cost of the ground "this year." COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP "It is only right that as we have received such fine backing from our m embers that the ground should belong to them collectively," he said. "It is our duty to ensure first, the future of the town's major footbal l and cricket clubs, and possession of the ground will make this possib le.", Purchased football ground for Gainsborough Trinity FC with brothe r, Charles Hubert Caldicott from Lt. Col. Edmund Bacon as ground was un der threat of being built on, 53, 23, 46, 1 | Caldicott, William Hargrave (I2957)
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| 471 | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... *New [OCCU] TRINITY F.C. SECRETARY LEAVING Mr. D. F. DRAKES MOVING TO LEICESTER Mr. D. F. Drakes, honorary secretary to Gainsborough Trinity F. C. for t he past five seasons, is to relinquish office on leaving the town at th e end of the month to tac up a new appointment. Before being secretary t o Trinity F.C., Mr. Drakes acted in a similar capacity to Gainsborough R owing Club for five years and played a large part in helping put the cl ub on its present footing as a sporting rather than purely pleasure org anisation. Mr. Drakes has been on the staff of Messrs. Caldicotts, publishers of t he "Gainsborough News" and "Gainsborough Evening News" and associated p apers for the past ten years. He joined the firm in March, 1947, at the i nvitation of his father-in-law, the lateMr. W. H. Caldicott, J.P., join t proprietor, who died last September. He worked on accounts and advert ising before joining the editorial department where has concentrated ma inly on the sport and photographic sides. Mr. Drakes now moves to Leicester where has has been appointed an engin eer in the commercial department of the Nuclear Power Division of the E nglish Electric Company which is one of the great firms helping design a nd construct Britain's Atomic Power Stations. APPRENTICESHIP WITH ROSE BROS. Although having spent the last ten years in the publishing world, Mr. D rakes is a qualified engineer. He left Gainsborough Queen Elizabeth's G rammar School to serve an apprenticeship with the local engineering fir m of Messrs Rose Brothers, Ltd., largely under the direction of the lat e Mr. J. D. Johnson. He studied at Gainsborough and Lincoln Technical C olleges and qualified at the London Polytechnic. He returned to Messrs. Rose Brothers for three years as a tool designer b efore taking an appointment as an Experimental Officer in the Admiralty w here he was engaged in the development of anti-submarine devices at an E xperimental Establishment on the westcoast of Scotland. At the end of the war he became technical assistant to the managing dir ector of a firm of hydraulic engineers in Leeds and was later appointed c hief development engineer. With the English Electric Company, Mr. Drakes will have among his dutie s those of Publicity and Press Liaison Officer for the Nuclear Power se ction and later of the Gas Turbine section which is also at Leicester. H e will also work on exhibitions which theCompany intend to stage both a t home and all over the world. In addition to taking part in the football and rowing life of Gainsboro ugh, Mr. Drakes is a member of the Lindsay Auto Club and of the Gainsbo rough Aquarist Society. He is a keen Freemason and a member of the Yarb orough Lodge in which his late father-in-law served with such distincti on for so many years. Eldest son of Mr. F. F. Drakes and the late Mrs. Violet Drakes, Mr. Dra kes married in 1942 Miss Kathleen Caldicott, second daughter of Mrs. A. L . and the late Mr. W. H. Caldicott, and they have three children, two s ons and a daughter. The family will moveto their new home in Leicester s oon after Mr. Drakes takes up his appointment., Worked on the staff of C aldicott's publishing and printing business owned by father-in-law, Wil liam Hargrave Caldicott, 53, 23, 46, 1 *New [OCCU] TRINITY F.C. SECRETARY LEAVING Mr. D. F. DRAKES MOVING TO LEICESTER Mr. D. F. Drakes, honorary secretary to Gainsborough Trinity F. C. for t he past five seasons, is to relinquish office on leaving the town at th e end of the month to tac up a new appointment. Before being secretary t o Trinity F.C., Mr. Drakes acted in a similar capacity to Gainsborough R owing Club for five years and played a large part in helping put the cl ub on its present footing as a sporting rather than purely pleasure org anisation. Mr. Drakes has been on the staff of Messrs. Caldicotts, publishers of t he "Gainsborough News" and "Gainsborough Evening News" and associated p apers for the past ten years. He joined the firm in March, 1947, at the i nvitation of his father-in-law, the lateMr. W. H. Caldicott, J.P., join t proprietor, who died last September. He worked on accounts and advert ising before joining the editorial department where has concentrated ma inly on the sport and photographic sides. Mr. Drakes now moves to Leicester where has has been appointed an engin eer in the commercial department of the Nuclear Power Division of the E nglish Electric Company which is one of the great firms helping design a nd construct Britain's Atomic Power Stations. APPRENTICESHIP WITH ROSE BROS. Although having spent the last ten years in the publishing world, Mr. D rakes is a qualified engineer. He left Gainsborough Queen Elizabeth's G rammar School to serve an apprenticeship with the local engineering fir m of Messrs Rose Brothers, Ltd., largely under the direction of the lat e Mr. J. D. Johnson. He studied at Gainsborough and Lincoln Technical C olleges and qualified at the London Polytechnic. He returned to Messrs. Rose Brothers for three years as a tool designer b efore taking an appointment as an Experimental Officer in the Admiralty w here he was engaged in the development of anti-submarine devices at an E xperimental Establishment on the westcoast of Scotland. At the end of the war he became technical assistant to the managing dir ector of a firm of hydraulic engineers in Leeds and was later appointed c hief development engineer. With the English Electric Company, Mr. Drakes will have among his dutie s those of Publicity and Press Liaison Officer for the Nuclear Power se ction and later of the Gas Turbine section which is also at Leicester. H e will also work on exhibitions which theCompany intend to stage both a t home and all over the world. In addition to taking part in the football and rowing life of Gainsboro ugh, Mr. Drakes is a member of the Lindsay Auto Club and of the Gainsbo rough Aquarist Society. He is a keen Freemason and a member of the Yarb orough Lodge in which his late father-in-law served with such distincti on for so many years. Eldest son of Mr. F. F. Drakes and the late Mrs. Violet Drakes, Mr. Dra kes married in 1942 Miss Kathleen Caldicott, second daughter of Mrs. A. L . and the late Mr. W. H. Caldicott, and they have three children, two s ons and a daughter. The family will moveto their new home in Leicester s oon after Mr. Drakes takes up his appointment., Engineer in the commerc ial department of the Nuclear Power Division of the English Electric Co mpany, 52, 37, 59, 1, 7, 59, 1 | Drakes, Donald F (I8118)
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| 472 | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Voluntary Service BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH SESSIONS. General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this borough was held at the P ublic Office on Friday. M. D. Hill, Esq., Q.C, Recorder, accompanied J. B aldwin, Esq., Mayor, and R. W. Winfleld, Esq., entered the Court at ten o 'clock, and having taken his seat upon the bench, the following gentlem en were sworn on the Grand Jury: - Mr. Edward Arthars, foreman ; Messrs . Joseph Baldwin, John Biddle, John Britain, Frederick John Brooks, Hen ry Capner, Oswald Caldicott, Joseph T. Collins, Thomas Z. Clive, James D eykin,jun., Edward Everitt, John Goodwin, George Hope, Christopher Herb ert, John Kendrick, Joseph Knight, and Ebenezer Piercy. The Proclamatio n against Vice and Immorality having been read by Mr. George Edmonds, C lerk of the Peace, The Learned Recorder brieflyaddressed the Grand Jury , and said, in looking over the calendar he did not find anything it to j ustify him in detaining them from the discharge of the onerous duties w hich devolved upon them. He would, however, make one or two observation s upon an offence which he saw with pain too frequently in the calendar . He meant the crime of embezzlement, which was almost invariably commi tted by persons who were in the confidence their employers and empowere d to receive their money, and who, availing themselves ofthat confidenc e, betrayed it, and applied the money to their own purposes. He felt pe culiar pain on seeing charges of that kind set forth in the calendar, b ecause he knew that the persons who had offended were those who general ly had had the advantage ofa good education, and who could not be ignor ant of the nature of the crime. But it was useless to dwell on that sub ject unless they allowed their reflections to fructify into some practi cal results and he hoped the Grand Jury would permit him to throw outa s uggestion which might not perhaps be unattended with benefit It was not f or him to dictate to gentlemen much more capable of conducting their ow n business than he could be how they ought to transact their business ; b ut if there was one thing more indispensably necessary than another, it w as that of keeping short and exact accounts with their clerks and depen dents. It was an old saying that short reckonings made long friends, an d he would also say that short accounts would make good servants He fea redthere was sometimes too great laxity on the part of employer, which w as too often taken advantage of by dishonest servants, and it was again st that he desired to guard the public. If servant, were given to under stand that they would not be called upon regularly and at fixed periods f or their accounts and money entrusted to them, they would tempted to co mmit the very serious crime embezzlement. Trusting these observations w ould be taken in the spirit in which they were intended, he would not d etain the Jury longer from their duties. - The Grand Jury then retired, a nd some "true bills" having been found, the trials of the prisoners wer e proceeded with, and continued until six o'clock in the evening, when t he Court was adjourned. The trials were resumed onSaturday morning, at n ine o'clock. The subjoined is the only case of interest tried during th e day, and which occupied the Court until rising at nine o'clock at nig ht. The business will resumed on Monday morning, and will in all probab ility be brought toa conclusion in the course of the day., Served on th e Grand Jury at the Birmingham Borough Sessions, 52, 28, 53, 1, 53, 59, 1 | Caldicott, Oswald (I3005)
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| 473 | EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT. John Alexander Caldecott, of Long Lawford, gentleman, was summoned for assaulting Charles Thomas Caldecott, of Holbrook Grange, at the parish of Newbold-on-Avon, on Dec 25th. - Mr. T. Wright, of Leicester, appeared for the prosecution. - Defendant pleaded not guilty, but before the case proceeded he wished to say that he had a little experience in military law, but not in civil, and therefore did not know the procedure of Civil Courts. He did not know whether he might not with reason object to Allesley Boughton-Leigh sitting in the case on consideration of what had passed between them, and that he was a witness against him (the defendant) in a matter with his brother which might perhaps be brought before this Court. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh said he had never heard anything of this case, nor did he know what it was about at all; and therefore he intended to sit. - The defendant said Col. Cooper would bear him out that it was the practice in military law to ask a soldier whether he had any objection to be tried by the president or any of the members appointed to try him by Court Martial on the ground that they might be biased. - Col. Cooper replied that the two Courts, civil and military, never clashed, and each showed respect to the other; but these remarks as to military law were extraneous to the subject now before the Bench. - The defendant said he did not wish to speak in a disrespectful spirit, but he merely wondered whether he had the chance in a Civil Court that he should have in a Military Court. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: If you have any objection to my sitting here your proper course will be eventually at the close of this case to apply to the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Wright, in opening the case, said Col. Caldecott felt compelled to institute these proceedings against his brother . The magistrates would readily understand that his position is a very painful one, but he was compelled to take it not simply for the actual occurrence on the 25th December, but because it was one of a series of annoyances, threats, and insults, which he and other members of his family had been unfortunately subjected to by the defendant for some years past. The defendant had for some reason of his own chosen to indulge in the most violent threats, and not long ago he called at the police station, before proceeding to Col. Caldecott’s to say he was going there, and there would probably be bloodshed, so that a policeman had better remain at hand if his services should be required. That was only one instance of the violence indulged in by the defendant. On Christmas Day he went up to Col. Caldecott as he was coming out of church, and, after using offensive language, hustled him, and put his fist in his face, threatened to smash him, and used other threats, so that at last Col Caldecott felt compelled to come to the Court for protection. It was not in a vindictive spirit that Col. Caldecott appeared that day, but it was more in consequence of the system of annoyance he had been subjected to by the defendant in sending post-cards of a vile character to Holbrook Grange, in placing offensive placards and notices on the gates leading to Holbrook in red chalk to represent blood, and other annoyances, which made life almost unendurable. Col. Caldecott was only animated by the kindest possible spirit, and if the magistrates found the case proved he would only ask that his brother should be bound over in substantial sureties to keep the peace for a reasonable time towards himself and all other of her Majesty’s subjects. There was not desire on his part to ask for any serious punishment. He (Mr. Wright) had hoped that the defendant would have seen that his wiser course was to plead guilty, so that he might have saved the necessity for public discussion on matters of this kind, but it might be that the defendant was not aware that his action towards Col. Caldecott upon this occasion really amounted to an assault. Mr. Wright, in conclusion, briefly referred to other means the defendant had taken to annoy Col. Caldecott and the members of his family by inserting absurd advertisements in the local newspapers; but that he would not go into further - he would simply ask the magistrates to take such steps as would protect Col. Caldecott and his family from such annoyances in the future. Col. Caldecott deposed: I reside at Holbrook Grange, and Defendant is my brother. On Dec 25th last I saw my brother at Newbold, both on going to and leaving the church. He waited for me going in and said “Good morning.” As I was leaving the church by the north door to go up for Newbold he came up to me, and said he wanted to speak to me. I said “Very well,” and he asked me “Are we to be friends or enemies?” I told him that we were willing to be friends if he would behave himself. - Defendant (interrupting): I don’t remember those words. - Complainant continuing, said: He began saying that something must be settled - that we must either be friends or we should be enemies. I then said that as long as he went on sending objectionable post-cards, writing on the gates, and cursing and swearing at my mother and sisters we could not be friends. He had been in the habit of sending large numbers of offensive post-cards to myself and to other members of my family, and that is what I referred to. He said to me “I’ll have things settled, or there will be a b——y row some day.” He then commenced to hustle against me and push me with his elbow and shoulder. I asked him not to push against me, and he immediately lifted his fist towards me, and put it within two or three inches of my face. He did not say anything then - at least, I don’t remember that he did. I asked Mr. T. G. Norman, who was near, if he saw that, and defendant immediately said, “Oh! If you want witnesses I’ll do it again,: and he held his fist in my face nearer than before, quite close, and nearly touching me. His fist was held in a threatening position. He went on talking in the same way till we got up to Mr. Norman’s house, and when we got there he said, “Haven’t I often called you a damned cur?” I said “Yes, you have very often.” He then said “You are a damned cur,” and lifted up his fist and said he would smash my damned face in. He was within striking distance - in fact, he was nearly touching me at the time. When he put his fist in my face at Mr. Norman’s door, several people were present. After his last threat I went into Mr. Norman’s house to escape from further annoyance. From his threats and his manner for some time past I am afraid he will do me or some member of my family some serious injury, unless retrained. On being asked if he wished to question the witness, defendant began to state that there was a little confusion, but Mr Boughton-Leigh told him he must not make a statement; he must confine himself at present to questions upon the evidence that had been given. - Defendant to witness: Where did I speak to you first - just inside the churchyard, wasn’t it? - A: Yes, it was just inside. - Were you walking along? - A: I had stopped to wish different people a happy Christmas, and you spoke to me directly I had finished. - Q: What were the words said to you? You had said “Good morning,” and I asked you whether you meant to speak to me further. - A: I don’t remember asking you that. - Q: Didn’t I ask you whether you meant to speak to me further, and what you meant by merely nodding to me after my “Good morning” to you; and on your saying that you did not, didn’t I say that it was mean and cowardly. —— Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Look here, Capt. Caldecott, you must confine yourself to asking questions on the matter which has been given in evidence before the Court, and not make a statement. - Col. Caldecott: I don’t mind answering him. He did not mention anything to me about being mean or cowardly. - Defendant: I don’t know whether I said that; I cannot exactly remember all these things. (To witness) Where did I hustle you? - A: You shoved me with your shoulder two or three times. - Q: And on your saying something I desisted, didn’t I? - A: You shook my fist in my face exactly at the same time. I said to you, “Don’t push against me,” and you shook your fist in my face - within a second. - After a few questions as to the precise locality where the assault occurred, the defendant said he could not remember all the evidence, and asked that it should be read over. That having been done, he continued to witness: You said you knew what I wanted. What do you mean by that? - Witness: Am I bound to answer that? Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Yes. - Witness: Well, I know he hustled me for the purpose of trying to make me strike him; he has done it often - at least not hustled me, but he wants me to strike him. - Defendant: How do you know that? A : I have been told so. - Q: By whom? - A: By lots of people. - Q: Have they any authority for saying that. Who is your authority? A: I shall not give up my authority. - Mr Boughton-Leigh: It was an impression upon your mind from some information you received. I don’t think you need answer that question. - Defendant: What did you say? You and I are both deaf, and we cannot hear very well. Were you speaking to me? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: No, I was speaking to the witness. - Defendant: I thought you were speaking to me, sir. I beg pardon. To witness: How do you know that what they say is true. Its hearsay evidence isn’t it? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: It was the impression upon his mind. We wish you to confine yourself as close as possible to the assault, and not go into matters that have previously taken place. - Defendant: I beg your pardon, I don’t understand a Civil Court. I understood I could cross-examine him on any part of his statement and evidence. This is the most important to me I consider, because he says he is in danger and fear. He says he knows I hustled him to make him strike me. Didn’t he know that I wished him to be friendly with me if he would, and that I said I would make him speak to me. - Col. Cooper: You put it so indistinctly. He has already said you were to be friendly if you would behave yourself. - Defendant to witness: Did you say that at that time - that if I desisted. - Witness: No, I said that as long as you swore at my mother and sisters and did these other things, we could not be friends. Q: Then you said that you knew I hustled you to make you strike me. Don’t you know that I also said you knew that I wanted to take the law against you. - A: Yes, you have often said that. - Defendant continued to question witness with reference to his statement that he knew that he hustled him to make him strike him, until Mr. Boughton-Leigh again told him that that was the impression on the Colonel’s mind. - Defendant to witness: Was my behaviour excited of violent? - A: Decidedly so - both - Q: Was my behaviour that of a gentleman or a blackguard? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh to witness: We don’t wish you to answer that question. Mr. Wright: That’s quite hypothetical. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: It is implied. - Defendant: If it is implied it is quite sufficient for me that it should be put down as blackguardly behaviour. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: We only say that the answer is implied. - Defendant repeated the question; Mr. Wright objected to it, and the Bench would not allow it be put. - Defendant: Had I lost my self-control? - A: Very nearly. - Q: Or seem as if I hadn’t my senses? Defendant was again reminded that he must confine his questions to the actions that formed the subject of the charge. - Defendant: It seems to me that they bring up such of the evidence that suits their cause, and leave out the other. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You must ask him questions on the evidence he has given. - Defendant to witness: Did you not think that it might have been an instance of the hereditary lunacy which you say exists in our family? - Mr. Wright: I object; don’t answer that question. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: We are not trying that now. This Court has no power to go into that question. - Defendant: I am only asking it in my defence. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Have you any other questions as regards the assault? - Defendant: I don’t remember what all the evidence is. - Mr. Wright briefly repeated the fact, and defendant said: There are other questions, but I have nothing more to say now. Mr. T. G. Norman, of Newbold-on-Avon, farmer, deposed that on December 25th he saw the defendant coming into Newbold Church. After service witness saw him near the north door, and saw defendant speak to Col. Caldecott. Defendant said to the Colonel in effect, “What do you mean by saying ‘Good morning;’ you must say more or less — we must either be friends or enemies.” When they go into the street the Captain shook his fist in the Colonel’s face in a very threatening manner. A variety of things were said as to his cursing and the way in which defendant treated his mother and sisters. When they got up to witness’s house, defendant shook his fist in Col. Caldecott’s face twice, and told him he was a damned cur. - By defendant: You asked me to listen to what you said. This completed the case for the complainant. Before proceeding with his defence defendant asked whether he could make any observations on Mr. Wright’s opening. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You can say anything you like - we cannot tell until you have said it. - Defendant then went on to say that his defence was, firstly, provocation, and, secondly, that it was a technical and not an actual assault. What he did in the first instance - in shouldering his brother - was certainly a slip and more that he intended to do. He went there with the view of having the matter settled because he thought bad blood was best out. By that he did not mean, as Tom Duke told him, that it meant murdering people, but that if differences existed between people it was better to have it out and make friends than to let little matters rankle into big ones. Therefore he went with the intention of committing a technical assault upon his brother so as to make him swear the peace against him. As regarded the provocation, this matter had been going on for years - it had arisen from a family quarrel and family misunderstandings - from the want of plain and straightforward speaking and behaviour, and from family differences and obstinacy on the part of his relatives - because he wished the truth to be spoken, and his mother, and sisters, and brothers were determined that it should not be spoken. He wished it spoken for the public good, and they wanted the truth kept back. And there had been a gross miscarriage of justice, partly through his ignorance of the law, and partly because he was subjected, without being put on his defence, to the cruel torture, degradation, insult, and dangerous infections of a madhouse - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Mr. Caldecott, you must really confine yourself to the assault. - Defendant: I want to show my motives for action. - Mr. Wright: I purposely kept this out. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You must recollect that this court cannot try your sanity, these things are perfectly irrelevant; all you have to do is to answer the question of this assault. You have already say that you committed a technical assault for the purpose of enabling your elder brother to cause you to be bound over to keep the peace - and we don’t want to go into your motives. - Defendant: Can I appeal against this. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You must consult your solicitor; but you don’t know what we shall do yet. - Defendant: In justice I claim provocation and I must put my case before you. - Mr. Wright pointed out that defendant ought to have asked questions showing provocation at the time of the assault; what took place weeks or months before was not provocation. - Defendant said he did not know the law, but he maintained that in a Court of Justice he ought to be allowed a fair hearing. He claimed that what happened a short time before should bear on the case, and he claimed to be allowed to say that there had been bad blood between himself and the members of his family, between himself and the members of his family, and they had had quarrels every since. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: I really don’t think you can go into that. - Defendant: There is bad blood between us in consequence of my having been put into a mad-house. They say they are compelled to take this case against me; why did not they take it long ago? I believe he knows very well that my object was to make him take the law, and I said “take it” because I wanted it to be brought before the public through the medium of the Police Court, for I say like Mrs. Weldon that without publicity justice is not going to be had; and I am not going to let this matter drop here. The immediate pro- vocation that I complain of, that drove me to act as I did was this. I say there had been bad blood between us for years, and I wished to be on friendly terms, and so I said, “Let’s either be friends or open enemies; but les us be really friends” - At this point Mr. Boughton-Leigh said they were going to adjourn the Court for five minutes; and the magistrates retired to the ante-room. - On returning into Court, Mr. Boughton-Leigh said the magistrates were sorry to interrupt the defendant, but the proceedings were being prolonged. - Defendant: Oh, thank you; I should have been glad to have adjourned with you. I daresay you were well employed. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You were speaking about provocation. - Defendant having appealed to the Court to know where he left off, and having been informed by the reporters, went on to say that on October 23rd he sent his brother a post-card to the effect that he would endeavour to behave himself. - Mr. Wright objected to any reference to that, because it was not asked for in cross-examination. - Defendant: I mean to show provocation, and I please extenuating circumstances. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Do you mean to say you sent a post-card to cause him to provoke you? - Defendant: Yes, collaterally. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: I am afraid we cannot go into that. - Defendant contended that it ought to be entered into. He made concillatory advances to the family, and had said he would endeavour to abstain from violence or offensive gestures or language to any of them, but they would not accept his advances. His brother had told him he would not have anything to do with him until he could speak to him properly; but how, he could do that if they did not speak? - Defendant was again reminded that he was charged with assault, and he repeated that he wanted to prove provocation. Mr. Boughton-Leigh pointed out to him that if the assault had immediately followed the provocation in hot blood it might have been considered; but what had taken place beforehand was no provocation. - Defendant went on to say that he met his brother several times after he had promised to behave himself, when he simply said “Good morning,’ and nothing else. He (defendant) hoped he was merely trying him and waiting to see whether he would behave quietly; he hoped and wished to be friendly, and that his brother would accept his advances. On Christmas Day he went to the church in the hope that his brother would meet him on friendly terms. He (defendant) said “Good morning” to him, hoping that he would stop and be friendly, but he passed by, and that cut him (defendant) to the heart as it had done before. As he had told his brother, and as his family were aware the thing that made him ill before he was put into an asylum, and since then that his own relations should so misjudge him, and pass him without speaking or with just a distant nod. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: But the Colonel did not speak to you. - Defendant: But this is the point. I say it is mean and cowardly and hypocritical on his part to pretend to accept my advances and to nod to me before the world, apparently friendly to deceive the world into the idea that we are friendly, whereas, in his hears, he does not mean to accept my advances. When I have made advances to my friends they would not accept them. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: According to the evidence, your brother said he would be very happy to be good friends, but he could not so long as you cursed his mother and sisters. - The defendant contended that it was provocation when he went to the church hoping his brother would be friendly, and he would not be. He wanted to have it settled one way or the other, and his object was only to commit a technical assault. He never intended to strike him any more than he (defendant) intended to strike his father in May, 1881. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You need not go into that. - Defendant: (continuing): In May 1881, when I was put into a madhouse- Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Hustling him and shaking your fists in his face was not a technical assault. - Defendant: I acknowledge that the hustling was a mistake on my part, and then I changed it to the other - I wanted a technical assault so as to have the matter settled one way or the other. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Is that all you want to say about the assault? - Defendant: I must speak to extenuating circumstances. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: All you have said about the assault has nothing to do with the case. It’s really waste of time. Provocation for an assault of that sort does not arise except it is in hot blood. - Defendant admitted that he made a mistake in hustling his brother, but he did not intend an actual assault. He went on to say that his brother’s manner had been offensive to him, and they had been nearly coming to blows; and if men of their age came to blows it meant something. If they were to strike each other there was no knowing where it would end. -Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You are doing your case no good saying so - you make it worse. - Defendant repeated that he wished to be on friendly terms with his brother, but they had behaved in an irritating and annoying manner to him. This being the conclusion of the case, Mr. Seabroke said there was another complaint against the defendant, asking that he should be ordered to find sureties of the peace to be of good behaviour. He asked the defendant if he had anything to say why an order should not be made upon him. - Defendant’s answer was to the effect that he was quite willing to be friendly with his brother, and there was no necessity for it. He wished to be on the best possible terms with him. - Mr. Seabroke: The magistrates will have to judge of that. Have you anything to say why an order should not be made? - Defendant: I have said it is not necessary. I have brought the matter before the public, as I felt ought to do. The magistrates were about to retire, when defendant said he wished to make objection to words used by Mr. Wright, that the post-cards he sent were of a vile character. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh remarked that it was only a statement, not evidence. - Defendant: I want to be shown which of the post-cards were of a vile character. I deny it. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You deny it, and that’s sufficient. The magistrates then retired to consult, and returned into Court after an absence of about ten minutes. - Addressing the defendant, Mr. Boughton-Leigh said: Capt. Caldecott - Defendant: I am not Capt. Caldecott; I am John Caldecott. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Well, Mr. Caldecott - John Caldecott, the magistrates have heard this case, and have given it their most careful consideration, and we find you guilty of what we consider a very serious assault upon your brother. - Defendant: A serious assault? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Don’t speak now, please. I’ll tell you why we consider it serious if you wish. You cam out of church, you shook your fist in your brother’s face on two occasions, and made use of the expression that you would smash his d——d face in or something of that. We consider that a very serious assault. You also hustled him, and, according to your own statement, you went to meet him, and committed a technical assault upon him for the purpose of inducing him to take out sureties of the peace against you. We find you guilty of the assault, and we sentence you to pay a fine of £5, and we also order you to find sureties of the peace for your good behaviour for six months - yourself in £300, and two sureties in £30 each; and, in default, one month’s imprisonment. - Defendant: I want just to say —— Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You can stand down now. On Tuesday the defendant had not obtained the required sureties. | Caldecott, Captain John Alexander (I8165)
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| 474 | EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT. John Alexander Caldecott, of Long Lawford, gentleman, was summoned for assaulting Charles Thomas Caldecott, of Holbrook Grange, at the parish of Newbold-on-Avon, on Dec 25th. - Mr. T. Wright, of Leicester, appeared for the prosecution. - Defendant pleaded not guilty, but before the case proceeded he wished to say that he had a little experience in military law, but not in civil, and therefore did not know the procedure of Civil Courts. He did not know whether he might not with reason object to Allesley Boughton-Leigh sitting in the case on consideration of what had passed between them, and that he was a witness against him (the defendant) in a matter with his brother which might perhaps be brought before this Court. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh said he had never heard anything of this case, nor did he know what it was about at all; and therefore he intended to sit. - The defendant said Col. Cooper would bear him out that it was the practice in military law to ask a soldier whether he had any objection to be tried by the president or any of the members appointed to try him by Court Martial on the ground that they might be biased. - Col. Cooper replied that the two Courts, civil and military, never clashed, and each showed respect to the other; but these remarks as to military law were extraneous to the subject now before the Bench. - The defendant said he did not wish to speak in a disrespectful spirit, but he merely wondered whether he had the chance in a Civil Court that he should have in a Military Court. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: If you have any objection to my sitting here your proper course will be eventually at the close of this case to apply to the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Wright, in opening the case, said Col. Caldecott felt compelled to institute these proceedings against his brother . The magistrates would readily understand that his position is a very painful one, but he was compelled to take it not simply for the actual occurrence on the 25th December, but because it was one of a series of annoyances, threats, and insults, which he and other members of his family had been unfortunately subjected to by the defendant for some years past. The defendant had for some reason of his own chosen to indulge in the most violent threats, and not long ago he called at the police station, before proceeding to Col. Caldecott’s to say he was going there, and there would probably be bloodshed, so that a policeman had better remain at hand if his services should be required. That was only one instance of the violence indulged in by the defendant. On Christmas Day he went up to Col. Caldecott as he was coming out of church, and, after using offensive language, hustled him, and put his fist in his face, threatened to smash him, and used other threats, so that at last Col Caldecott felt compelled to come to the Court for protection. It was not in a vindictive spirit that Col. Caldecott appeared that day, but it was more in consequence of the system of annoyance he had been subjected to by the defendant in sending post-cards of a vile character to Holbrook Grange, in placing offensive placards and notices on the gates leading to Holbrook in red chalk to represent blood, and other annoyances, which made life almost unendurable. Col. Caldecott was only animated by the kindest possible spirit, and if the magistrates found the case proved he would only ask that his brother should be bound over in substantial sureties to keep the peace for a reasonable time towards himself and all other of her Majesty’s subjects. There was not desire on his part to ask for any serious punishment. He (Mr. Wright) had hoped that the defendant would have seen that his wiser course was to plead guilty, so that he might have saved the necessity for public discussion on matters of this kind, but it might be that the defendant was not aware that his action towards Col. Caldecott upon this occasion really amounted to an assault. Mr. Wright, in conclusion, briefly referred to other means the defendant had taken to annoy Col. Caldecott and the members of his family by inserting absurd advertisements in the local newspapers; but that he would not go into further - he would simply ask the magistrates to take such steps as would protect Col. Caldecott and his family from such annoyances in the future. Col. Caldecott deposed: I reside at Holbrook Grange, and Defendant is my brother. On Dec 25th last I saw my brother at Newbold, both on going to and leaving the church. He waited for me going in and said “Good morning.” As I was leaving the church by the north door to go up for Newbold he came up to me, and said he wanted to speak to me. I said “Very well,” and he asked me “Are we to be friends or enemies?” I told him that we were willing to be friends if he would behave himself. - Defendant (interrupting): I don’t remember those words. - Complainant continuing, said: He began saying that something must be settled - that we must either be friends or we should be enemies. I then said that as long as he went on sending objectionable post-cards, writing on the gates, and cursing and swearing at my mother and sisters we could not be friends. He had been in the habit of sending large numbers of offensive post-cards to myself and to other members of my family, and that is what I referred to. He said to me “I’ll have things settled, or there will be a b——y row some day.” He then commenced to hustle against me and push me with his elbow and shoulder. I asked him not to push against me, and he immediately lifted his fist towards me, and put it within two or three inches of my face. He did not say anything then - at least, I don’t remember that he did. I asked Mr. T. G. Norman, who was near, if he saw that, and defendant immediately said, “Oh! If you want witnesses I’ll do it again,: and he held his fist in my face nearer than before, quite close, and nearly touching me. His fist was held in a threatening position. He went on talking in the same way till we got up to Mr. Norman’s house, and when we got there he said, “Haven’t I often called you a damned cur?” I said “Yes, you have very often.” He then said “You are a damned cur,” and lifted up his fist and said he would smash my damned face in. He was within striking distance - in fact, he was nearly touching me at the time. When he put his fist in my face at Mr. Norman’s door, several people were present. After his last threat I went into Mr. Norman’s house to escape from further annoyance. From his threats and his manner for some time past I am afraid he will do me or some member of my family some serious injury, unless retrained. On being asked if he wished to question the witness, defendant began to state that there was a little confusion, but Mr Boughton-Leigh told him he must not make a statement; he must confine himself at present to questions upon the evidence that had been given. - Defendant to witness: Where did I speak to you first - just inside the churchyard, wasn’t it? - A: Yes, it was just inside. - Were you walking along? - A: I had stopped to wish different people a happy Christmas, and you spoke to me directly I had finished. - Q: What were the words said to you? You had said “Good morning,” and I asked you whether you meant to speak to me further. - A: I don’t remember asking you that. - Q: Didn’t I ask you whether you meant to speak to me further, and what you meant by merely nodding to me after my “Good morning” to you; and on your saying that you did not, didn’t I say that it was mean and cowardly. —— Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Look here, Capt. Caldecott, you must confine yourself to asking questions on the matter which has been given in evidence before the Court, and not make a statement. - Col. Caldecott: I don’t mind answering him. He did not mention anything to me about being mean or cowardly. - Defendant: I don’t know whether I said that; I cannot exactly remember all these things. (To witness) Where did I hustle you? - A: You shoved me with your shoulder two or three times. - Q: And on your saying something I desisted, didn’t I? - A: You shook my fist in my face exactly at the same time. I said to you, “Don’t push against me,” and you shook your fist in my face - within a second. - After a few questions as to the precise locality where the assault occurred, the defendant said he could not remember all the evidence, and asked that it should be read over. That having been done, he continued to witness: You said you knew what I wanted. What do you mean by that? - Witness: Am I bound to answer that? Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Yes. - Witness: Well, I know he hustled me for the purpose of trying to make me strike him; he has done it often - at least not hustled me, but he wants me to strike him. - Defendant: How do you know that? A : I have been told so. - Q: By whom? - A: By lots of people. - Q: Have they any authority for saying that. Who is your authority? A: I shall not give up my authority. - Mr Boughton-Leigh: It was an impression upon your mind from some information you received. I don’t think you need answer that question. - Defendant: What did you say? You and I are both deaf, and we cannot hear very well. Were you speaking to me? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: No, I was speaking to the witness. - Defendant: I thought you were speaking to me, sir. I beg pardon. To witness: How do you know that what they say is true. Its hearsay evidence isn’t it? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: It was the impression upon his mind. We wish you to confine yourself as close as possible to the assault, and not go into matters that have previously taken place. - Defendant: I beg your pardon, I don’t understand a Civil Court. I understood I could cross-examine him on any part of his statement and evidence. This is the most important to me I consider, because he says he is in danger and fear. He says he knows I hustled him to make him strike me. Didn’t he know that I wished him to be friendly with me if he would, and that I said I would make him speak to me. - Col. Cooper: You put it so indistinctly. He has already said you were to be friendly if you would behave yourself. - Defendant to witness: Did you say that at that time - that if I desisted. - Witness: No, I said that as long as you swore at my mother and sisters and did these other things, we could not be friends. Q: Then you said that you knew I hustled you to make you strike me. Don’t you know that I also said you knew that I wanted to take the law against you. - A: Yes, you have often said that. - Defendant continued to question witness with reference to his statement that he knew that he hustled him to make him strike him, until Mr. Boughton-Leigh again told him that that was the impression on the Colonel’s mind. - Defendant to witness: Was my behaviour excited of violent? - A: Decidedly so - both - Q: Was my behaviour that of a gentleman or a blackguard? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh to witness: We don’t wish you to answer that question. Mr. Wright: That’s quite hypothetical. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: It is implied. - Defendant: If it is implied it is quite sufficient for me that it should be put down as blackguardly behaviour. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: We only say that the answer is implied. - Defendant repeated the question; Mr. Wright objected to it, and the Bench would not allow it be put. - Defendant: Had I lost my self-control? - A: Very nearly. - Q: Or seem as if I hadn’t my senses? Defendant was again reminded that he must confine his questions to the actions that formed the subject of the charge. - Defendant: It seems to me that they bring up such of the evidence that suits their cause, and leave out the other. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You must ask him questions on the evidence he has given. - Defendant to witness: Did you not think that it might have been an instance of the hereditary lunacy which you say exists in our family? - Mr. Wright: I object; don’t answer that question. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: We are not trying that now. This Court has no power to go into that question. - Defendant: I am only asking it in my defence. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Have you any other questions as regards the assault? - Defendant: I don’t remember what all the evidence is. - Mr. Wright briefly repeated the fact, and defendant said: There are other questions, but I have nothing more to say now. Mr. T. G. Norman, of Newbold-on-Avon, farmer, deposed that on December 25th he saw the defendant coming into Newbold Church. After service witness saw him near the north door, and saw defendant speak to Col. Caldecott. Defendant said to the Colonel in effect, “What do you mean by saying ‘Good morning;’ you must say more or less — we must either be friends or enemies.” When they go into the street the Captain shook his fist in the Colonel’s face in a very threatening manner. A variety of things were said as to his cursing and the way in which defendant treated his mother and sisters. When they got up to witness’s house, defendant shook his fist in Col. Caldecott’s face twice, and told him he was a damned cur. - By defendant: You asked me to listen to what you said. This completed the case for the complainant. Before proceeding with his defence defendant asked whether he could make any observations on Mr. Wright’s opening. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You can say anything you like - we cannot tell until you have said it. - Defendant then went on to say that his defence was, firstly, provocation, and, secondly, that it was a technical and not an actual assault. What he did in the first instance - in shouldering his brother - was certainly a slip and more that he intended to do. He went there with the view of having the matter settled because he thought bad blood was best out. By that he did not mean, as Tom Duke told him, that it meant murdering people, but that if differences existed between people it was better to have it out and make friends than to let little matters rankle into big ones. Therefore he went with the intention of committing a technical assault upon his brother so as to make him swear the peace against him. As regarded the provocation, this matter had been going on for years - it had arisen from a family quarrel and family misunderstandings - from the want of plain and straightforward speaking and behaviour, and from family differences and obstinacy on the part of his relatives - because he wished the truth to be spoken, and his mother, and sisters, and brothers were determined that it should not be spoken. He wished it spoken for the public good, and they wanted the truth kept back. And there had been a gross miscarriage of justice, partly through his ignorance of the law, and partly because he was subjected, without being put on his defence, to the cruel torture, degradation, insult, and dangerous infections of a madhouse - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Mr. Caldecott, you must really confine yourself to the assault. - Defendant: I want to show my motives for action. - Mr. Wright: I purposely kept this out. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You must recollect that this court cannot try your sanity, these things are perfectly irrelevant; all you have to do is to answer the question of this assault. You have already say that you committed a technical assault for the purpose of enabling your elder brother to cause you to be bound over to keep the peace - and we don’t want to go into your motives. - Defendant: Can I appeal against this. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You must consult your solicitor; but you don’t know what we shall do yet. - Defendant: In justice I claim provocation and I must put my case before you. - Mr. Wright pointed out that defendant ought to have asked questions showing provocation at the time of the assault; what took place weeks or months before was not provocation. - Defendant said he did not know the law, but he maintained that in a Court of Justice he ought to be allowed a fair hearing. He claimed that what happened a short time before should bear on the case, and he claimed to be allowed to say that there had been bad blood between himself and the members of his family, between himself and the members of his family, and they had had quarrels every since. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: I really don’t think you can go into that. - Defendant: There is bad blood between us in consequence of my having been put into a mad-house. They say they are compelled to take this case against me; why did not they take it long ago? I believe he knows very well that my object was to make him take the law, and I said “take it” because I wanted it to be brought before the public through the medium of the Police Court, for I say like Mrs. Weldon that without publicity justice is not going to be had; and I am not going to let this matter drop here. The immediate pro- vocation that I complain of, that drove me to act as I did was this. I say there had been bad blood between us for years, and I wished to be on friendly terms, and so I said, “Let’s either be friends or open enemies; but les us be really friends” - At this point Mr. Boughton-Leigh said they were going to adjourn the Court for five minutes; and the magistrates retired to the ante-room. - On returning into Court, Mr. Boughton-Leigh said the magistrates were sorry to interrupt the defendant, but the proceedings were being prolonged. - Defendant: Oh, thank you; I should have been glad to have adjourned with you. I daresay you were well employed. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You were speaking about provocation. - Defendant having appealed to the Court to know where he left off, and having been informed by the reporters, went on to say that on October 23rd he sent his brother a post-card to the effect that he would endeavour to behave himself. - Mr. Wright objected to any reference to that, because it was not asked for in cross-examination. - Defendant: I mean to show provocation, and I please extenuating circumstances. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Do you mean to say you sent a post-card to cause him to provoke you? - Defendant: Yes, collaterally. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: I am afraid we cannot go into that. - Defendant contended that it ought to be entered into. He made concillatory advances to the family, and had said he would endeavour to abstain from violence or offensive gestures or language to any of them, but they would not accept his advances. His brother had told him he would not have anything to do with him until he could speak to him properly; but how, he could do that if they did not speak? - Defendant was again reminded that he was charged with assault, and he repeated that he wanted to prove provocation. Mr. Boughton-Leigh pointed out to him that if the assault had immediately followed the provocation in hot blood it might have been considered; but what had taken place beforehand was no provocation. - Defendant went on to say that he met his brother several times after he had promised to behave himself, when he simply said “Good morning,’ and nothing else. He (defendant) hoped he was merely trying him and waiting to see whether he would behave quietly; he hoped and wished to be friendly, and that his brother would accept his advances. On Christmas Day he went to the church in the hope that his brother would meet him on friendly terms. He (defendant) said “Good morning” to him, hoping that he would stop and be friendly, but he passed by, and that cut him (defendant) to the heart as it had done before. As he had told his brother, and as his family were aware the thing that made him ill before he was put into an asylum, and since then that his own relations should so misjudge him, and pass him without speaking or with just a distant nod. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: But the Colonel did not speak to you. - Defendant: But this is the point. I say it is mean and cowardly and hypocritical on his part to pretend to accept my advances and to nod to me before the world, apparently friendly to deceive the world into the idea that we are friendly, whereas, in his hears, he does not mean to accept my advances. When I have made advances to my friends they would not accept them. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: According to the evidence, your brother said he would be very happy to be good friends, but he could not so long as you cursed his mother and sisters. - The defendant contended that it was provocation when he went to the church hoping his brother would be friendly, and he would not be. He wanted to have it settled one way or the other, and his object was only to commit a technical assault. He never intended to strike him any more than he (defendant) intended to strike his father in May, 1881. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You need not go into that. - Defendant: (continuing): In May 1881, when I was put into a madhouse- Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Hustling him and shaking your fists in his face was not a technical assault. - Defendant: I acknowledge that the hustling was a mistake on my part, and then I changed it to the other - I wanted a technical assault so as to have the matter settled one way or the other. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Is that all you want to say about the assault? - Defendant: I must speak to extenuating circumstances. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: All you have said about the assault has nothing to do with the case. It’s really waste of time. Provocation for an assault of that sort does not arise except it is in hot blood. - Defendant admitted that he made a mistake in hustling his brother, but he did not intend an actual assault. He went on to say that his brother’s manner had been offensive to him, and they had been nearly coming to blows; and if men of their age came to blows it meant something. If they were to strike each other there was no knowing where it would end. -Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You are doing your case no good saying so - you make it worse. - Defendant repeated that he wished to be on friendly terms with his brother, but they had behaved in an irritating and annoying manner to him. This being the conclusion of the case, Mr. Seabroke said there was another complaint against the defendant, asking that he should be ordered to find sureties of the peace to be of good behaviour. He asked the defendant if he had anything to say why an order should not be made upon him. - Defendant’s answer was to the effect that he was quite willing to be friendly with his brother, and there was no necessity for it. He wished to be on the best possible terms with him. - Mr. Seabroke: The magistrates will have to judge of that. Have you anything to say why an order should not be made? - Defendant: I have said it is not necessary. I have brought the matter before the public, as I felt ought to do. The magistrates were about to retire, when defendant said he wished to make objection to words used by Mr. Wright, that the post-cards he sent were of a vile character. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh remarked that it was only a statement, not evidence. - Defendant: I want to be shown which of the post-cards were of a vile character. I deny it. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You deny it, and that’s sufficient. The magistrates then retired to consult, and returned into Court after an absence of about ten minutes. - Addressing the defendant, Mr. Boughton-Leigh said: Capt. Caldecott - Defendant: I am not Capt. Caldecott; I am John Caldecott. - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Well, Mr. Caldecott - John Caldecott, the magistrates have heard this case, and have given it their most careful consideration, and we find you guilty of what we consider a very serious assault upon your brother. - Defendant: A serious assault? - Mr. Boughton-Leigh: Don’t speak now, please. I’ll tell you why we consider it serious if you wish. You cam out of church, you shook your fist in your brother’s face on two occasions, and made use of the expression that you would smash his d——d face in or something of that. We consider that a very serious assault. You also hustled him, and, according to your own statement, you went to meet him, and committed a technical assault upon him for the purpose of inducing him to take out sureties of the peace against you. We find you guilty of the assault, and we sentence you to pay a fine of £5, and we also order you to find sureties of the peace for your good behaviour for six months - yourself in £300, and two sureties in £30 each; and, in default, one month’s imprisonment. - Defendant: I want just to say —— Mr. Boughton-Leigh: You can stand down now. On Tuesday the defendant had not obtained the required sureties. | Caldecott, Colonel Charles Thomas (I8360)
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| 475 | Facebook Messenger 14/7/2018 - Gaynor Pollard I was looking at the ancestry site and following up my Great Uncle Sid. I used to visit his cottage in Pershore with my father and was very impressed that Cadbury used it for their chocolate boxes. I put it into Google and found that there was a postcard written by my grandma on eBay. No 202324002236 I have snaffled it up. Hi Gaynor yes very nice couple of days thanks. Hope you and the family are ok. Oh wow how exciting! What a find! Would love to hear more information. Let me know address of cottage if you have it. I'd love it if you could scan the postcard and send it to me if that's ok when you get it. Thanks for letting me know xx The address is the old thatch pershore road little comberton. I understood (although too young to be trustworthy) that he was leader of a team that invented Bakelite (forerunner to plastic). The cottage burned down and the present building is a perfect copy that the insurance paid for. My postcard is the original building. I have a painting in my conservatory that G U Sid painted. | Caldicott, Louie (I1627)
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| 476 | FALSE TAX RETURN "MY method of calculating income tax is entirely different from that of the Taxation Department," William Henry Caldicott, fruit merchant, 4 Bernard Avenue, Gladesville, declared at Central Summons Court today when charged with lodging a false income tax return for 1941. "The only difference between your method and ours is that you underestimated your income by a trifling £1584," Mr Bardy (for the Taxation Department) replied. Mr. Goldie, S.M., accepted the Taxation Department's method and fined Caldicott £25. | Caldicott, William Henry (I535)
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| 477 | FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN A. W. B. CALDECOTT, 103RD REGIMENT (ROYAL BOMBAY FUSILEERS, OR “OLD TOUGHS”). Captain Caldecott was out tiger-shooting with Lieutenants Neill and Hare, of his regiment, in the jungles near Doolares, 48 miles from Seepree, which is 76 miles 3 ? of Gwalior, and on the mail road from Agra to Mhow. On the morning of the 27th May they posted themselves on three low trees in the bed of a ravine, about thirty yards apart, and the beaters were “driving” towards them. Neill saw a cub come out near him, and a large tigress followed it. He fired at and shot her through the body, too far back to kill, and she gave a roar and went off towards Caldecott, who fired at her as she came up, but apparently missed , owing, no doubt, to the thickness of the basher. The beast then paced close by his tree, and he turned round to have another shot at her. The noise he made in doing so must have attracted her attention, for immediately after Hare saw her on his head and shoulders. She had seized his right arm above the elbow in her mouth, and dragged him out of the tree to the ground, where she left him. The arm was bitten through in three or four places, and the flesh and muscles dreadfully torn. His companions sent off a trooper to Seepree, 48 miles off, where a detachment of the 93rd Highlanders was stationed, for medical aid, and then got a litter made for him and started off in the same direction. The motion of the litter, carried on men’s heads, made the arm bleed so, and gave such pain, they they had to stop several times to give him rest, and they did not reach Sepree till the morning of the 29th, when his wounds were dressed by the Doctor who had gone out to meet him, but, after missing his way in the jungle and wandering about for several hours in fruitless search of the party, had returned to the station. On the 31st mortification set in; another surgeon was telegraphed for to Gwalior, who came down the same evening by the mail cart, and the arm was amputated at the shoulder; but the great shock to the system, and the severe loss of blood sustained before medical assistance could be had, so weakened him that he gradually sank and at last expired at 3.30 a.m. of the 2nd June, and was buried the next day by the Highlanders , in the cemetery at Seepree. Captain Caldecott joined the Bombay Fusileers in 1857 and was sent to Mooltan, where he took an active and efficient part in defeating the outbreak of the Sepoy mutineers on the 31st August. He afterwards became Quarter-master, then Interpreter, and for some years Adjutant; the latter appointment he had only vacated on the 25th March last on his promotion to a Captaincy. He had introduced and successfully established a printing press and several sorts of workshops for the employment and benefit of the soldiers, and also managed all their games and other amusements. The Delhi Gazette says:- “He was as fine an officer as ever lived; in the prime of manhood, cool, daring, and courageous, without a knowledge of what fear meant.” And another paper says - “The acci- dent to, and subsequent death of, Captain Caldecott, has cast an entire gloom over the whole of the “Old Toughs,” as he was a great and universal favourite with both officers and men, and, as was expressed by the correspondent of the Dehli Gazette, as brave and daring a soldier as ever draw a sword in Her Majesty’s service. As Adjutant none ever surpassed him: vigilant, energetic, and faithful in the performance of his duty, but without the slightest trace of tyranny or harshness - where kindness would check an evil, the contrary was farthest from his thoughts. As superintendent of workshops, and the amusements of the men, his tact and discrimination in dealing with the various temperaments he had under his control was proverbial. Often have I, when in difficulty connected with the theatre, gone to him in a state of disconsolation, only to be sent away cheerful and light-hearted. By the dwellers on Poona he was well-known and esteemed. Who has not heard his exclamations of joy when his Eleven came off victorious in many a well-contested game of cricket on the Deccan soil. Methinks I see him now, sitting down with his pipe, watching with eager gaze the turning of a game, and as a bold stroke was made, or a wicket fell, the peculiar laugh which rang out, and the well-remembered expression “good” came fleeting down the field. The men as well as officers wear mourning for him, such is the respect for his memory. Like some distant evil that we all endeavour to put off as long as we can, in the hope that it can be avoided, came the news of his death. None could credit it. Face sought face, endeavouring to read a contradiction of it; and when at last the mind could hope no longer, then the truth broke upon all, that not only a beloved commander had been taken from them, but a dear and valued friend, whose place it will be difficult to supply. With what eagerness was the Order Book watched for, and everything that could on that day throw light on the calamity the regiment had sustained. | Caldecott, Alexander William Bradfield (I5514)
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| 479 | FIRE-FIGHTERS FORM GUARD OF HONOUR PLYMOUTH FUNERALS OF A.F.S. MEMBERS COLLEAGUES WERE BEARERS. Another young member of the Plymouth A.F.S., Mr. Thomas John Callicott, was buried at Weston Mill Cemetery yesterday. Rev. T. Iles officiated. A. F. S. men escorted the cortege, and six of the dead man’s colleagues were bearers. Aged 30, Mr. Callicott was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Callicott, of 28 Parker-road, Beacon Park. He was employed as a baker and confectioner, and in August 1938 volunteered for the A. F. S. The chief mourners were Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Callicott, father and mother; Mr. F. Callicott, brother; Mrs. J. Flood, sister, Mrs. M. Prior, grandmother; Mr. A. E. Callicott, uncle; Mesdames A. Laity and N. Robinson, aunts, Mr. and Mrs. R. Canterbury, Mr. and Mrs. T. Laity, Mr. and Mrs. L. Shortt, Messrs. N. Orchard and G. Hartly, Mrs. A Joiliffe and Miss R. Stidwell, cousins; Mr. and Mrs. W. Edwards, Mesdames F. Pidgeon and J. Bawden, Miss Eva, Messrs. E. and R. Pine, and Mrs. E. March. Bearers were Ldg-Fireman L. Stanburg and Fireman E. Daniels, W. R. Edwards, T. Martin, A. Robins and C. Bowns. Section Officer F. Briggs was in charge of the party. An officer and two members of the regular fire brigade also attended. Mr. S. G. Pester represented Mr. and Mrs. S. Stephens, and Staff-Sergt. R. W. Skinner represented Mr. H. V. Miller, County Commissioner, St. John Ambulance. Among floral tributes was a wreath from Crews 1 and 2 of an A. F. S. station. | Callicott, Thomas John (I10104)
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| 480 | First codicil of will | Caldecott, Charles Marriott J.P. D.L. (I8316)
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| 481 | First member of family to adopt Caldecott spelling of surname | Calcott \ Caldecott, Thomas (I11713)
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| 482 | FROM COVENTRY TO SHANGHAI VIA SIBERIA. 12,000 MILES IN 16 DAYS. SOME INTERESTING EXPERIENCES. Leaving Coventry on November 12th a day was spent in London, and on the morning of the 14th Victoria Station was the rendezvois for several friends, who kindly came down to give me a send-off. We left at 9.45, and passing through Rochester reached Queenborough at 11 o'clock, and went on board the S.S. "Engaland" at once. My last sight of England was a very dismal one. Queenborough is an unlovely place at the best of times, and as I saw it, with a Scotch mist falling an a cold east wind which chilled one to the bone, it looked the most cheerless place imaginable. The "Engaland" was not much better, being a dirty, uncomfortable boat, without even the redeeming feature of a good saloon, and lunch was a penance rather than a pleasure. A thick fog came down about 5 o'clock, and we ran into Flushing a good hour late, but without accident. Passing the Customs without any trouble (I found that having my luggage labelled Shanghai saved me much inconvenience from over-zealous officials all the way East) it was very pleasant to exchange the cheerless boat for a comfortable and well-lit Waggon-Lit compartment, and after an excellent dinner I turned in and slept soundly until the attendant at 7 a.m. announced "Berlin, Monsieur." I shall not easily forget my first view of Germany. When I pulled up the blind I saw an absolutely nat country, very carefully cultivated, and cut up by large forests of pines and chestnut trees, ice everywhere, the thermometer at zero, and all the land lit up by the most gorgeous sunrise, in the East one could just see the arch of the sun, like a ball of crimson nre, rising against the hard metallic blue of the sky, with a handful of emerald clouds love down on the horizon, and in the clear atmosphere every twig stood out with startling clearness and sharpness of outline. Arrived at the Freziderichstrasse Station at 8 o'clock I soon transferred myself and my kit to the comfortable Continental hotel, and after breakfast I went out to buy cigars and to see as much of Berlin as I could in the time at my disposal. Soon arriving at Unter den Linden I was much impressed by the magnificence of this historic thoroughfare, with its foreign embassies and fine palaces at one end, its sumptuous shops in the middle, and at the lower and the towering Schloss and colossal statue erected in honour of Wilhelm 1st, King of Prussia and Emperor of all the Germans. The Brandenberger Thor is a finer monument than the Marble Arch, but I prefer Hyde Park to the Siegers Allee, despite the statues to all of Germany's best and greatest, which so worthily crown the latter. IN BERLIN. After lunch I took a taxi, intending to pay a visit to the famous Zoological Gardens, but my fierce and hairy chauffeur (he was dressed in sheep skin besides his own locks, which badly needed a little attention) mistook my directions, couched in civil English, of which he naturally took no notice, and drove me to the Dog Show instead. Here I was cheered by the reflection that the Coventry enthusiasts, at whose show I was privileged to attend last Spring, and show far finer representatives of the various breeds than their contreres in Berlin, and I fancy that a few of the exhibits would have had some difficulty in establishing a claim to registration in the Kennel Club Book. However, I was impressed by some very useful-looking and wiry dogs of the smooth collie type. My lack of knowledge of German unfortunately prevented me from making enquiries as to their antecedents and their mission in life, but they appeared very intelligent and full of pluck. The German ladies could some of them, outdo our own lady enthusiasts in the way they cover their darlings with trappings and clothes, the uses of which are rather obscured to the masuline eye. The height of luxury was reached by a small Italian greyhound, who was couched in a bed of pink satin trimmed with roses. Tearing myself away from the Dog Show I went to the Zoo and spent a very pleasant time, admiring the fine condition of the beasts and birds, and the excellent houses provided for them. Here are some very fine specimens of the almost extinct American bison and of the aurocks, the indigenous wild cattle of the forests of Central Europe. I was especially pleased with a fine pair of lion cubs, the gift of H. I. M. the Emporer Menelik of Abyssinia, and a fine leopard from the same donor, One of the animals of which the Germans are very proud is an enormous white stag, standing nearly 6ft. high at the shoulder, and carrying a magnificent head, which has luckily escaped the accidents that generally befall the antlers of a stag kept in captivity. Eventually, it was time to return to the hotel and from there take the 7 p.m. train for Moscow. At 1 o'clock a.m. the Russian frontier was reached at Alexandrovo, and here I had my first taste of the Russian official and his easy-going methods, but I soon found out that the judicious expenditure of a rouble can save one a great deal of trouble. After keeping us waiting for nearly two hours we were allowed to go back to bed again until Warsaw was reached at 8 o'clock the same morning, and here we were hurried out of our train into the arms of a crowd of ragged thieves disguised as dhrosky drivers. After much bargaining in several tongues, none of which these ruffians understood, we secured the services of a miserable pair of horese and a dilapidated brougham made by Thrupp and Maberly several centuries ago, but still bearing their axle caps and some remnants of its former comfort, to take us and our baggage to the Moscow Station some three miles distant. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is not an impressive town, having the general air of untidyness and lack of soap and water that belongs to the whole of Russia. On our way we crossed the Vistula by a fine iron bridge, and I noticed that the river was nearly frozen over, only a narrow channel being left in the middle, and that was partially blocked by by icebergs. One cannot avoid beporter, but one is consoled by the fact that he probably thinks very much the same of the ordinary voyager. MOSCOW. Entraining here, we journeyed without incident to Moscow, where I was met by a very pleasant Englishman, who took a great deal of trouble to make my short stay in Moscow as pleasant as possible. The country all along this line is very flat and monotonous, mostly arable land bearing crops of corn and flax, interspersed with forests of silver birch, which wood the Russians use practically to the exclusion of every other kind, and from the roots they make very pretty furniture among other things too numerous to mention. The first thing that strikes the casual observed is the total lack of game. There are quantities of rooks, jackdaws, and hoodie crows everywhere, but only one covey of seven partridges was to be seen all the way from Berlin to Dainy. Storks' nests are to be seen on every farm and in nearly every large tree, and when a waggon wheel drops off they prop it up on a pole, and the storks build on it, though I should think they must find the hub rather an uncomfortable egg. Another noticeable thing is the quantity of small wooden churches scattered all over the country, each one fenced in with its own little grove of birch trees growing in the cemetery. In nearly every field one sees a cross on a tall pole and very often an ikon or picture of the Saviour or the Holy Mother, to which the peasants invariably bow and say a prayer as they pass. They are the most wretched-looking people, as if all the life and spirits had been taken out of them, and they present the most pitiable spectacle as they slouch about in their felt boots wretched rage making a most poor defence against the bitter cold wind which sweeps over the frozen country and stings the face like the cut of whip. At every station is to be seen a Corporal and a file of about ten soldiers, crafty and absolutely stolid, with narrow cruel eyes wthat miss nothing, all armed to the teeth with sword, rifle, and revolver, and looking much bigger than they really are beneath an enormous fur cap and a huge posteen (sheepskin coat). It was the distance their operations were from their base, and how they worked that enormous army and commissariat with but a single line of railway for close on 2,000 miles, is and must always be regarded as one of the greatest feats of modern warfare. Some day, and not so very far off now, the Russians will win back Manchuria, and Dainy will once more become as thoroughly Russian as it now is Japanese, and very few people will miss the Japs, or "little monkeys," which name they hate more than any. Moscow was rather disappointing. Of course, the churches are quite unique and very wonderful, but the town itself is very dirty, with narrow streets. It is a town of contrasts; one sees an enormous new shop which looks as if it ought to be Regent Street, and next to it a dirty dilapidated hovel, covering an old woman selling apples and unhealthy varieties of sweets. The Metropole Hotel is the best, and it contains a very fine dining room, and at dinner time a French orchestra appears and plays really well, far better than the usual run of restaurant orchestral effort. During my stay in Moscow I was privileged to inspect a new but obviously successful undertaking on the line of Harrods Stores. One of the directors, who is very proud of its venture, as he has every right to be, for it is the finest thing of its kind in Russia, very kindly conducted me through a maze of galleries and passages, up and down innumerable lifts, showing me the inside wheels of the great machine, which supplies half Russia and finds employment, under the most congenial conditions, for close upon 2,000 men and women. I arrived at lunch time and was greatly interested in the preparation of the various viands, which looked so tempting and were all so nicely served up in the most dainty and appetising manner. I can well believe that they never have the least difficulty in finding employees, and several of them told me that they would sooner work for the foreigners than the Russians. "Our director, he is always so just," was the verdict one heard on all sides, and it shows how, all the world over, the Englishman who comes to colonise begins by treating the natives, no matter what their colour, as if they were human beings, and ends by winning their respect and their affection. One fact that one notices directly one arrives in Moscow is the slow pace at which everyone walks. This is perhaps accounted for by the fact that everyone wears felt overshoes or goloshes to keep out the snow, and it must be difficult to walk fast when one is hampered by think felt boots coming half-way up the thigh. Until one is accustomed to it, it seems rather incongruous to see a calvary officer in full uniform wearing goloshes with brass-bound slits at the back for his spurs to come through. The Moscow market is a most interesting place to walk through. One sees a fishmonger selling sturgeon and cutting them in half with a saw, for they are frozen as rigid as boarad, and next door is a peasant woman buying a sucking-pig for supper and passing caustic comments upon its thinness and general unfitness for human consumption, and drawing a harrowing picture of the trouble that will come when Johann comes home from his day's work driving the tram and sees this miserable object upon the table instead of the well-fed and fat animal that his soul desires. So much I gather from the lady's impassioned eloquence and vigorous gesture, though the general drift of her remarks is beyond me. And so the good woman departs, dumping the maligned pig down into a capacious basket, containing, among other things, a dozen crayfish and an and an enormous wedge of kwass, which is made from apples crushed to a pulp and allowed to ferment in their own lliquor. In the Moscow market this is sawn into blocks, though in a milder climate it would be dealt out into bowls. I believe it is very good to eat, though I never had the opportunity to try for myself. THE URAL MOUNTAINS. I left Moscow at 11.30 p.m. on the 18th, and the next twelve days were spent in the train. The Compagnie des Waggons-Lits does all its power to study the comfort of its passengers, providing comfortable bunks and a civil attendant in each compartment, who generally speaks English, slthough German is by far the most useful language on this trip. There is also a library in the dining saloon and some shower baths fitted up next door to the repair shop, but as they had unfortunately filled the tank nearly half full of kerosene in mistake for water we all decided that we would prefer to remain as we would prefer to remain as we were, and the charges I rouble 50 kopecks (3s.), we were certainly excessive for the little satisfaction one was able to obtain. The next few days passed without incident, the country being as flat as a billiard table, and alternating between plough land and dwarf birch trees, which will eventually feed the engines of this marvellous line. On the 21st we passed through the Urai mountains, and it was delightful to exchange the dull monotony of the rich wheatlands for the savage beauty of these barren hills which stood out boldly in the grey dawn, looking almost unreal with wisps of cloud hung across their black and frowning precipices. The same day we stopped at Tcheleoinsk, a place famous for its amethysts, and a general market for the less valuable stones found these in great quantities, and at the station one can purchase specimens of the lapidary's art at exorbitant rates. On the 25th we reached Irkutsk, which is a large convict settlement, and from this point to Kharbine wood fuel was used in the engines. Here we changed trains, and the second train was a great improvement on the first one: the bunks were far more comfortable, and more attention was paid to ventilation. The food also was much better. The 28th saw us at Kharbine, where the Shanghai passengers changed, leaving those bound for Japan to go on to Vladivostock. From here I took a ticket to Dalny, luckily securing the services of an interpreter, who fought manfully for my luggage, which a crowd of porters would insist upon piling on a dhrosky, despite my protest that I was going to Shaghai. I was very nearly left behind here, for the trains to Kean Tchen Tze was timed to leave at 12 o'clock, and at 10.30 I was talking to a friend who was going to Japan by the train I had just left. Suddenly I saw my train moving out and had to run about a quarter of a mile through thick sand, with a heavy overcoat on, until I overtook the rest of the passengers, nearly all of whom had suffered the same fate. Eventually we came up with the train and took our places, though no sort of apology was forthcoming from the guard, despite our complaints. The next eight hours were full of discomfort. The first-class Russian carriages would disgrace any reputable English line which attempted to label them third- class, and to add to our misery there was no dining car on the train, so at every little station we adjourned and cleared the refreshment room of all the eatables which looked fairly safe, in most cases having to be content with hard-boiled egss and dry bread. However, with the aid of a Thermos flask we made tea and finished a box of biscuits which one many had fortunately brought with him. Arrived at Kwan Tchen Tze we found that it was nexessary to get out and take tickets to the Japanese station about ten minutes further on; this is a pitfall for the unwary. When we go to the Japanese station all our troubles were at an end, for we found a maginificent Pullman train waiting for us, replete with every comfort. From this place to Dalny is the line belonging to the company which had just been successfully floated in London, known as the South Manchurian Railway; and they run two trains per week in connection with the Trans-Siberian express. This is undoubtedly the best way for travellers to Shanghai, as it saves at least a week on the journey. There were 60 passengers on the Trans-Siberian train, of which 30 came on to Shanghai and various other destinations in North China. THE CHINESE AND THE JAPS. On the way from Kharbine I made my first acquaintance with the Chinese coolie, and found him a dirty, cheery, good-tempered individual, wiht a very keen sense of humour. Attached to the train were several carriages for coolies, queer box-like places, in which these coolies sat or lay full length, some of them smoking opium, the reek of which was suffocating. The Chinese from the North, or Manchus, to give them their proper name, are mostly a fine race, broad shouldered and strong, very different from the undersized and wretched-looking coolie one sees in Shanghai, who nevertheless, tows one's rickshaw faily until he comes to a bridge, which is the only approach to a hill that can be found anywhere near Shaghai. On Sunday morning, November 28th, we stopped at Mukden, and here all the passengers for Pekin and Tiensin had to change. From here to Dalny is most magnificent hilly country, cut up by fine rivers, and doubly interesting from the fact that it was the theatre of the chief operations in the Russo-Japanese War, and on every side one can see the trenches and riflepits. On all the hills anywhere near the line are flat platforms, which were cut for the guns. We crossed the Liao Yang River, and were shown the Russian position, which would have been impregnable if the Japanese, according to their invariable custom, had not utterly disregarded all agreements and turned the Russian flank by advancing across territory which both combatants had agreed should be neutral. One of the first impressions that the stranger realises about here is the universal hatred with which everyone regards the Japanese; no one ever has a good word to say for them, at least no one who has ever had any dealings with them. They are utterly unscrupulous and are only too pleased if they can rob the foreigner, and the more dishonourable the robbery the better they are pleased. Their untrustworthiness makes them absolutely impossible to do business with and everyone here will be greatly surprised and disgusted if the Treaty with Japan should be renewed. At home the Japanese are feted and made much of, but here they are despised and hated on all sides, and this hatred is justified. A favourite trick of theirs is to acquire an undertaking of some kind, for choice an imitation of some goods of universal reputation, as for instance Buchanan's whiskey and Cross and Blackwell's jams, two articles of consumption that have recently been victimised. These they produce as fast as they can, never troubling about such mere details as cost of production, etc., and pocketing all the money from the sales. Eventually they find that they cannot go on any more, so they sell the show as a going concern and wisely clear out. This trick is as old as the and wisely clear out. This trick is as old as the hills and was probably practised in the days of Noah, but it has served the Japanese very well. They are such objectionable little animals, too, directly one gets into a train or one of their hotels like the Yomato Hotel at Dairen, the waiters and people crowd round and want to know where you come from, what your name is, and where you are going to, and various other questions that one might expect from savages, but that seem rather curious from a civilised nation, as they call themselves, although no one who had ever come in contact with them can admit that they are heart anything except savages pure and simple. PORT ARTHUR. The South Manchuria Railway is at present a very clean and comfortable line, and the Japanese certainly take trouble over it. At every station where we stopped between Kwan Tchan Tze and Dairen, to give it its Japanese name, although Dalny was good enough for the Russians, porters crowded round the train with feather dusters and swept it all down outside, even going over the wheels and axles. And yet after all this fussing that train will be in a deplorable state in about three months' time. Arrived at Dalny we found the hotel full, so had to sleep on the steamer, the Kobe Maru which was lying in the harbour ready to take us to Shaghai on the Monday morning. From the steamer one had a very good view of perhaps the most blood-stained spot in Manchuria, Port Arthur, and one could see the trenches up which the Japanese were driven to feed the Russian fire) by the bayonets and the bullets of their comrades. We left Dalny at 12 o'clock noon on Monday and after a very smooth passage arrived at the Nippen Yusen Kaisha Wharf. Shanghai, at 8 o'clock a.m., exactly 16 days out from London. Thus ended a trip which had its discomforts, but the many enthrallingly, interesting things and people one net en route were ample atonement, and only the pleasant recollections, and they were many, remain to me. In conclusion let me add that those who undertake this trip must provide themselves with a passport, and if this is vised by the Russian Embassy, "Passing through to China." it will save them endless trouble in Russia. They should also have a pair of felt boots if they make this trip in winter to keep their feet warm and to prevent them from slipping on the platforms and carriage steps. When they get out for exercise a bottle of Worcester sauce and a safety razor. If I can give any of your readers any information regarding this route I shall only be too pleased to do so. RICHARD CALDICOTT. Chingbiang, January, 1909. P.S. - Distance from Shanghai to London 12,800 miles, sea passage 53 hours. | Caldicott, Captain Richard (I7736)
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| 483 | FUNERAL NOTICES. CALDICOTT. - The Friends of the late MISS PEARL DAISY CALDICOTT are respectfully informed that her FUNERAL will Leave her parents' Residence, Hilton Post Office, on WEDNESDAY, at 4.30 p.m., for the West Terrace Cemetery. R. T. WALLMANN & SONS, Undertakers. The TEACHERS and SCHOLARS of the GROTE STREET CHURCH OF CHRIST SUNDAY SCHOOL are requested to ASSEMBLE at the West Terrace Cemetery at 4:40 THIS AFTERNOON to meet the Funeral of our later Teacher (Miss Caldicott). Members of the Church Choir are also requested to attend. | Caldicott, Pearl Daisy (I6774)
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| 484 | Gen written after name on Elizabeth's baptism record | Caldecott, Thomas (I1392)
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| 485 | GOLDEN WEDDING Anniversary Celebrated Today Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sanders Caldicott, of 3 Ebor avenue, Torrensville, today celebrated their golden wedding. They were married in St. Luke's Church by Rev. James Pollock in 1879. Mr. Caldicott was for many years a representative for Hilton Ward on West Torrens Council. It was largely due ot his efforts that trams were run to Hilton. He is keenly interested in music and singing, and still visits the wards at Adelaide Hospital with Mile-End Church of Christ choir, which he has conducted for many years on its weekly visit. There are 11 children, 24 grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Tomorrow evening a reception will be tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Caldicott at the home of a daughter, Mrs. W. R. Dorling, of Rose-street, Mile-End. A Golden Wedding The 50th anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sanders Caldicott, of Ebor avenue, Torrensville, was celebrated at the residence of their daughter, Mrs. W. R. Dorling, Rose-street, Mile-End. Mr. Caldicott, who is a son of Mr. Sanders Caldicott, a former official of the Postmaster-General's Department, was born at Wright street, Adelaide, on April 16, 1859. On July 12, 1879, he married Miss E. Hayward, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hayward, of Hilton. For many years Mr. Caldicott was in the wholesale produce business at the East-End Market. That business under the firm name of R. S. Caldicott & Son, is now managed by a son. He then combined the duties of postmaster at Hilton with those of a general storekeeper. During 23 years in this position he was a representative of Hilton ward in the West Torrens District Council, and was largely instrumental in having a tram service to Hilton established. He is a talented musician, and still visits the wards at the Adelaide Hospital with the Mile-End Church of Christ choir, which he has conducted for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Caldicott are now living in retirement. Of a family of 12, eleven survive. A daughter Miss Elsie Caldicott, who is a missionary at Baramati Station, Poona, India, is at present home on leave. She will return to India early next month. With the exception of two son, who are in business in Sydney, and Mr. E. S. Caldicott, all members of the family were present at the celebration. Wedding breakfast was served, and the evening spent in music, singing and games. Those present included Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Caldicott, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Caldicott, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Dorling, Mr. and Mrs. F. Clarke, Mrs. P. T. Shaughnessy, Misses Daphne and Elsie Caldicott, Mrs W. Harden, Miss M. Harden, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Caldicott, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dorling, sen., Miss Blanche Dorling, Pastor and Mrs. W. L. Ewers, Miss Alison Condell, and Miss J. Havers. | Family: Robert Sanders Caldicott / Elizabeth Hayward (F55)
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| 486 | GOSFORD-STREET WARD MUNICIPAL ELECTION. The polling for the election of a Councillor to the vacancy in the representation of Gosford-street Ward - caused by Mr. W. W. Neale, solicitor, being adjudicated a bankrupt - took place on Monday. The candidates were Mr. Edward Parsons, ironmonger, Jordan-well, Conservative; and Mr. Frederick Caldicott, Cross-cheaping, printer and stationer, Liberal. There were four polling stations, one at St. Peter's schools, another at the South-street Board schools, a third at St. Mary's schools, Raglan-street, and a fourth at St. Mary's Hall, in the collector's office. The poll opened at 8 o'clock in the morning, and continued without any great amount of pressure during the whole of the day, it being scarcely possible to realise that an election was taking place n the ward. Voting continued till 8 o'clock, when the boxes were taken to St. Mary's Hall, where the counting took place before Alderman Dalton, returning officer. The result was made known about 9 o'clock as follows ;- Parsons (C) - 836 Caldicott (L) - 767 Majority - 69 The number of voters on the register was 2,254, so that 657 were unpolled. There were four spoiled papers. - Mr. Parsons contested the ward last November, when he was at the bottom of the poll with a record of 824 votes. It will therefore be seen that he polled 12 more votes than at the election in November. | Caldicott, Frederick (I7196)
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| 487 | Grave location - 22-4 | Coldicott, Underhill (I12197)
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| 488 | Grave location 70-49 | Caldicott, James (I9266)
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| 489 | Heir to his brother, Thomas of Caldecote and Bishopton, Wilts | Caldecott, Randolph D.D. (I12004)
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| 490 | Heir to his father. Died without offspring | Caldecott, Thomas (I12003)
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| 491 | Herbert Kelly, nephew recorded with household in 1921 Census | Caldecott, Robert (I2539)
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| 492 | HILLFIELDS WARD. Henry Edmund Caldicott (L.) Alfred Wood (C.) Polling Stations: Vine Street Chapel Schools, Vine Street (16); St. Peter's Schools, Yardley Street (17). Voters on the register 1,746. The Liberals of Hillfields had their second opportunity of helping Mr. Caldicott in his effort to gain a seat in the City Council. His opponent, Mr. Wood, is well-known in the district, and Mr. Caldicott was a contestant for the seat last year when in a three-cornered fight Dr. Collington was returned with a majority of 38 above Mr. Caldicott. "A feature of the contest in the Ward." said a prominent worker to our representative, has been the our excellent feeling which has prevailed throughout. Which ever of is the defeated candidate I am sure he will be one of the first to shake hands with his opponent and congratulate him on having won a straight and pleasant fight." It was a curious coincidence that at 3.20 this afternoon the number of voters who had exercised their right should have been within a dozen of the total polled at the same time last November 1st, though on that occasion there were three candidates in the field. A tour of the ward impressed one with the quiet manner in which the contest was being conducted, though, as usual, a big rush of electors after tea was expected to add more life to the proceedings. | Caldicott, Henry Edmund (I7603)
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| 493 | HILLFIELDS WARD. Henry Edmund Caldicott (L.), 146, Earlsdon Avenue, printer. Proposed by Thomas Carvell, sen., seconded by Arthur Joseph Allen: also by Charles Standbridge and William Everell. *Alfred Wood (C). Ambleside, 105, Holyhead Road, gentleman. Proposed by Percy Edgar Over- ton, seconded by Charles Beaufoy; also by George Herbert Shuttleworth and Henry Summers; also by George Edwin Preston and Frank Arnatt Collington; also by Jabez Jackson and Edmund Joseph Griffin. COVENTRY MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS NOVEMBER 1912. TO THE BURGESSES OF HILLFIELDS WARD. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,- IN response to unanimous invitation from the Hillfields Ward Liberal Association, and a large number of Burgesses of the Ward, I have consented to allow myself to be nominated as a candidate. Last year, in a three-cornered contest, I came within 38 votes of victory, and I am, therefore, encouraged to again solicit your support. My firm employs a considerable number of hands and PAYS TRADE UNION WAGES. I am strongly in favour of providing Allotments upon reasonable terms, and with security of tenure, believing the relaxation thus afforded to the workers will be of benefit to them. I should always be prepared to do my utmost to see the interests of Allotment Holders safeguarded. I would strongly oppose any suggestion of the security of tenure being interfered with. I am in favour of the Corporation paying Trade Union Rate of Wages in all departments, seeing that in Corporation contracts a Fair Wage Clause is inserted to compel contractors to pay Trade Union Rates. The Corporation should lead the way in this respect. I think the Sanitary Committee should adopt a more energetic action in dealing with insanitary property, and that better provision should be made for housing those tenants dispossessed of their dwellings by public improvements. Better Lighting and Paving are badly needed in many parts of the Ward, and I should urge that these matters have attention as speedily as possible. The Tramways having now become a Municipal undertaking, it is essential in the interests of Ratepayers generally, and working men in particular, that the system be made efficient, rapid and cheap. I would support a scheme for extending the service wherever desirable, to link up the various outlying districts with the centre of the city. I am at all times in favour of a progressive qu en policy in local affairs, seeing that in an old city like Coventry - which is so rapidly developing - alterations and improvements must be carried out, but I should oppose needless expenditure, particularly so in view of the present high rates. Should you do me the honour of electing me as your representative, it will be my earnest desire to represent all parties, by careful attention to the duties a Councillor is expected to perform, and shall always be pleased to consider any improvements in regard to the administration of the Corporation's affairs which may be brought to my notice. Appealing with confidence for your Votes and support on November 1st, I am, your faithfully, HENRY EDMUND CALDICOTT. Cross Cheaping, Coventry, October 19th, 1912. | Caldicott, Henry Edmund (I7603)
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| 494 | Hugh and Ruth listed as parents on burial record | Caldecot, John (I2822)
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| 495 | Husband, William Boughton bequeathed the Manor of Rugby to his wife, Ann Deacon and to heirs and assigns for ever. | Deacon, Anna (I4686)
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| 496 | I believe that John died young but cannot find a death or burial record at the moment. | Caldicott, John (I3120)
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| 497 | I meant to message you re the series?The Last Post?. My uncle Maurice C aldicott was a regimental Sargent major in the royal military police an d was in Aden at the time the series is set. I think all the shenanigan s are very accurate! He was an absolute riot: funnier than Graham he looked after the Chels ea Pensioners when he came out of the army and I used to go and visit h im there. I was devestated when he died so young. Facebook conversation with Gaynor Pollard, niece of Maurice Wells Caldi cott, 7/11/2017 Maurice Wells Caldicott served as a soldier and travelled to Singapore in 1957 on a ship called Corfu. His residential address on the passenger list for this voyage is recorded as within the Kensington Baracks indicating that he was a member of the household calvalry. In 1970 he is listed in the British Phone Book as a resident of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea. He died at the age of 50 in 1977. Maurice Wells Caldicott served as a soldier and travelled to Singapore in 1957 on a ship called Corfu. His residential address on the passenger list for this voyage is recorded as within the Kensington Baracks indicating that he was a member of the household calvalry. In 1970 he is listed in the British Phone Book as a resident of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea. He died at the age of 50 in 1977. | Caldicott, Maurice Wells (I5123)
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| 498 | IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HANNAH WIFE OF RICHARD CALDICOTT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL THE 17TH 1884 AGED 69 YEARS ALSO OF RICHARD CALDICOTT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY THE 25TH 1871 AGED 74 YEARS DEATHS. On the 17th inst., aged 69, Hannah, wife of Richard Caldicott, Esq., of this City. | Merry, Hannah (I7541)
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| 499 | IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HANNAH WIFE OF RICHARD CALDICOTT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL THE 17TH 1884 AGED 69 YEARS ALSO OF RICHARD CALDICOTT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY THE 25TH 1871 AGED 74 YEARS | Caldicott, Richard (I7025)
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| 500 | In Memoriam CALLICOTT, Ethel. Treasured memories of my Mum. Always remembered with love. Still sadly missed. Bernice, Albert. CALLICOTT, Ethel. Precious the memories, silent the tears, missed so much Mum by Daughter Valerie, Son in law Malcolm. Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren. CALLICOTT, Ethel. Nan, passed away four years today. We talk about you often, we think about you still , you haven’t been forgotten, you know you never will. Granddaughter Tracey and Steven. Great Grandchildren Billy, Amy and Connor. CALLICOTT, Ethel. Nan, always in our thoughts. Love Sarah, Ryan, Billy, Simon. CALLICOTT, Ethel, Fond memories of a loving Aunt. From Yvonne and family. | Hodge, Ethel Lilian (I10033)
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