William (The Younger) Bullen

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D Wong on 22nd October 2017

William (the younger) was described as: 5'5½" tall, dark ruddy complexion, brown hair and eyes, mole on the left side of neck, another on right breast, scar back of 3rd finger of left hand. 1840: TOL Bathurst 27/4/1849: COF

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Glenice Bullen on 22nd October 2017

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 5 JANUARY 1833 – CORNWALL QUARTER SESSIONS – The Sessions for this County commenced at Bodmin, on Tuesday last. The Calendar contained the names of 31 prisoners, of whom two were confined for not finding sureties to indemnify their respective parishes – St Agnes and Gwennap – in bastardy, and 28 on charges of felony. William Bullen (51), William Husband (52), and William Bullen, jun (24), committed by J.H. Tremayne, Esq, were charged with stealing a sheep, the property of Ezekiel Gaved, gentleman. On the night of the 13th of September last, about half-past ten o’clock, as a miner called Joseph May was passing by Mr Gaved’s estate, called Tregenna, in St Ewe, and near a field called Green-close, belonging to Mr Gaved, he heard the bleating of a sheep, and looking into the field, observed a man driving a sheep to one of the corners. He then went home and finding three men at his house, he asked them to go with him to the Green-close. As they were passing by the field, they met two men, one with a pack on his back and the other with the hind-quarters of a sheep, which, on perceiving May and his companions, they dropt and ran away, leaving the pack and the half of the sheep on the road. May and his companions then lay in wait for near an hour and a half, when they espied three men coming towards the place; they lay quiet in a ditch until the men came up, when the elder Bullen and Husband took up the pack and mutton on their shoulders and said, “it is as well we left it, its all well”. The persons watching knew the prisoners, whom they seized, and asked them where they got the sheep. The elder Bullen said, from Mr Gaved’s field, and it was Mr Gaved’s sheep. They took the prisoners to Mr Gaved’s and then went for the half of the sheep, and the pack, which was found to contain the other half of the sheep, together with fat from the inside. On being asked where the skin was, the prisoners said it was in a corner of the field; it was found there, and being compared with the parts of the sheep the prisoners had, it was found to correspond, and was identified by Mr Gaved as his property. When before the Magistrate, Bullen sen, said he never took the value of a pin before. Wm Bullen, sen, and William Husband, guilty of killing the sheep with intent to steal the carcase. The prisoners were sentenced to be Transported for Life. Wm. Bullen, jun, it appeared, had been called up by his father, on the night in question, but he did not assist in killing the sheep. Guilty of stealing the mutton. The remainder of the sessions with the sentences of the prisoners, had not reached our office from the reporter when the papers were put to press. Sessions ended yesterday – Sentences in our next. ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 12 JANUARY 1833 – CORNWALL QUARTER SESSIONS – The following sentences were passed on the prisoners convicted at these Sessions, viz:- William Bullen and William Husband, for sheep-stealing, to be Transported for Life. William Bullen, jun, for the same offence, to be Transported for 14 years. REFERENCES – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=021-qs_6&cid=1-2-8#1-2-8