Samuel Gigney

  Noted events in his life were:

• Fact 1. GEORGE WOOD, theft : housebreaking.

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t17890422-62
Trial Summary:
Crime(s): theft : housebreaking <http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/crime/crimes.html>,
Punishment Type: transportation <http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/crime/punishment.html>,
(Punishment details may be provided at the end of the trial.)
Verdict: Part Guilty: theft under 40s ,
Other trials on 22 Apr 1789
Name search for: GEORGE WOOD
Crime Location: St. John's, Hackney
Original Text:
347. GEORGE WOOD was indicted for burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Samuel Gigney , the elder, on the 1st of March, and burglariously stealing therein, a silver milk-pot, value 10 s. a punch-ladle, value 5 s. a tea-strainer, value 2 s. a silver watch, value 3 l. two silver table spoons, value 20 s. four silver teaspoons, value 5 s. a black silk cardinal, value 10 s. and eighteen guineas in monies numbered , the property of the said Samuel Gigney , the elder.
SAMUEL GIGNEY , the elder, sworn.
I live at Cambridge Heath, in the parish of St. John's, Hackney; the prisoner and two others lodged at my house; I went for the benefit of my health, about a fortnight before I heard of this robbery, into Kent; and on the 9th of March my son sent for me; I had left in my house the things mentioned in the indictment, they were in my lodging-room up two pair of stairs, the prisoner lodged next room to me.
Mr. Garrow, Prisoner's Counsel. Who did you leave in the house? - My lodgers.
They could come in and out as they pleased? - Yes.
WILLLIAM GIGNEY, junior, sworn.
I am the son of the last witness, I am a baker, I live in Well-street, Hackney; on the 9th of March I went to my father's house on Cambridge Heath; I went up two pair of stairs where my father lived, and I found the door open; I fastened the door, I sent an express to my father, and when he came up, he told me of the property he had lost.
JOHN LEE sworn.
I am constable at Hackney, I served a warrant on the prisoner at Erith, on the 12th of March, he was at work in a brick-field; I did not chuse to take him there, on account of the quantity of people that were at work; I took him on the Thursday following at a public-house; I searched the prisoner, and in his fob I found the glass of a watch broke; I went with the prisoner down a cellar at his lodgings, and he there pulled out a parcel of spoons and a cream-pot, which were covered over with sand; two table-spoons, four teaspoons, a tea-strainer, a punch-ladle, and a silver watch, were in the sand, and a black cardinal was tucked underneath a beam between the joists of a floor in the cellar; I took him into custody, and after examination he was fully committed; he said he could not say he did not commit the robbery, but he did not break the door open; I heard no promise made him to induce him to confess.
The property deposed to by Samuel Gigney the elder.
The prisoner called four witnesses, who gave him him a good character.
GUILTY, Of stealing to the value of 36 s.
Transported for seven years .
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. ROSE.

Samuel married Susannah Jepps, daughter of Robert Jepps and Mary, on 30 Jul 1743 in Good Easter, Essex, England. (Susannah Jepps was born in 1716 in White Roding, Essex, England and was christened on 3 Feb 1716 in High Easter, Essex, England.)