Miles Flynn

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Dr M M Gilchrist on 23rd May 2025

Tha family name was usually written as 'Flinn'.

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Dr M M Gilchrist on 18th December 2024

He was baptised on 19 June 1815 in Kidderminster, so probably born earlier that month.

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Dr M M Gilchrist on 22nd September 2024

'Fluin' appears simply to be a modern transcription error: the family name was mostly written as 'Flinn' at the time. He was my great-great-great-grand-uncle.

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D Wong on 30th April 2020

Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Staffordshire, England 17 Apr 1833: Joseph Massey, aged 18, carpet weaver. Miles Flynn, aged 17, wool comber, and Thomas Westwood, aged 13, carpet weaver, were severally found guilty upon a charge of having stolen, on the evening of the 21st ult. a till, containing a quantity of silver and copper money, the property of Mr. John Bennett, of Kidderminster. Westwood to be transported for fourteen years, and Massey and Flynn for seven years. Thomas Westwood was on board - no ship found for Joseph Massey. Miles Flynn (Listed as Fluin) was 19 years old on arrival. Miles was 5'1½" tall, fair complexion, brown hair, grey eyes. Stated this offence: Stealing a drawer and 9 shillings - once tried and acquitted for a similar offence. Father: Martin Flin?? Mother: Susan. 14/7/1837: Larceny under £5 - 3 years transportation. Existing term extended 3 years and returned to Govt. 2/3/1839 The Cornwall Chronicle: Miles Flynn was sent to a road party for six weeks for being drunk and insolent to his mistress. 1845: Free Certificate. 11/3/1846 The Cornwall Chronicle: Henry Lewis, George Abbott, Anne Smith and Mary Connor, alias Dickenson, stood charged with robbing a gentleman, who but recently came to tbe colony, of £58 in bank notes. Prosecutor stated that he met the prisoner Anne Smith about 9 o'clock on the evening of Saturday last; was fatigued and sleepy, and prisoner easily persuaded him to accompany her home. On entering the house, saw the other prisoner, Mary Connor, who desired him to set down. Deponent took off his coat containing the pocket-book in which he had previously deposited tbe notes, and threw it on a chair. Does not remember taking off his neckerchief at the same time. After sending for some brandy deponent dozed off to sleep, and any person might have entered the room unperceived by him. Before going to sleep, saw Anne Smith sitting on the coat ; the two male prisoners were not present ; missed the money directly after leaving the house, and gave information of it to the police. Saw the house searched, when a handkerchief, the property of deponent was found on the person of Mary Connor. There being no evidence against the prisoners, they were discharged; — the two men were apprehended merely on suspicion, being occupants of the same house. 8/4/1846 The Cornwall Chronicle: Henry Lewis, a man of dashing exterior, with hair and whiskers which would have excited the pride and admiration of Messrs. Rowland & Son, for they were redolent of Maccassar, was charged with felony. The prosecutor, who is a companion of the prisoner's, and had charged him at the watch-house with stealing some money, did not appear. Lewis was about leaving the bar with a most contemptuous curl on his lip, and to a critical observer a slight twinkle might have been discerned in his left eye, directed towards the district constable, when the Magistrate asked what sort of a character he bore, and more particularly his means of obtaining a livelihood. 'Means, Sir!' exclaimed Mr Davis, 'he is seldom without those, which at all times can obtain for him a ready entrance into any house in town, and although we have never been able to find skeleton keys and other implements of his possession on his person, yet we have always done so, near any place which he frequents. I am perfectly sure he has been lately concerned in no less than eight felonies ; his mate has been taken in Port Phillip for the robbery of Mr. Douglas's plate, and the handsome clothes in which he now appears, were purchased with some of the notes of which his lady contrived to ease a gentleman from Melbourne, a little time ago. Mr. D. C. Ecott gave him an equally good recommendation for employment which he immediately obtained for three months in the House of Correction. 22/7/1846 Launceston Examiner: A NOTORIOUS VAGABOND.-A man who called himself Henry Lewis, but seems better known to the police as Miles Flynn, was charged on Tuesday by Mr. D. C. Davis, with being an idle and disorderly person, reputed thief, and a frequenter of the streets for the purpose of committing felonies. The statements of the detector shows the sharp eye which the police keep upon such characters. Mr. Davis deposed that Flynn had several times been charged with felony, that he had only just come from the treadmill, where he had been under sentence of hard labour for three months upon a charge similar to the present; he was a notorious rogue and vagabond, had no visible means of earning a living, and was known to the whole of the police as a professional thief; he lived with a woman who was as bad or worse than himself, and both thieved in concert; never knew him to work but once; he was then in Mr. Douglas's employ; during that time Mr. Douglas lost his plate and a neighbouring house was broken open, in both which robberies the prisoner was undoubtedly concerned. He was stopped driving out of town in a gig with the very man who was subsequently apprehended at Port Phillip with Mr. Douglas's plate in his possession. Mr. Davis stated further, that when he apprehended Flynn he was in company with three men of bad character, who never said a word but walked away without even turning their heads. Mr. Akers, tailor, came forward and deposed, that a short time since he was carrying home a coat and waistcoat for Mr. Sparks and met the prisoner with a woman; thinking she was Mr. Sparks's servant he asked her, and she replied she was. The prisoner quickly intimated that he was just going to see her home to her master's, and Mr. Akers unsuspectingly availed himself of his services to save himself a journey, and entrusted the bundle to his care: of course neither Mr. Sparks nor Mr. Akers have ever seed the coat and waistcoat since. The police magistrate sent the fellow back to the treadmill for another three months, to the great discomfiture of the rest of the gang, who it may be well to state are objects of equal sollicitude to the vigilant detectors. The following refers to the possible death of Miles Flynn under the name Henry Lewis: Launceston Examiner, 02/08/1882; STATE OF THE HOSPITAL. .... The following is a list of deaths in the Hospital during the month, ... Henry Lewis, 67, brain disease, England; .....

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Dr M M Gilchrist on 29th April 2020

Son of Martin Flinn and his wife Susannah (née White), from Kidderminster in Worcestershire.