Nell, I looked up the details of his misdemeanour at Gloucester Record Office for you:
Gloucester Lent Assizes 1830
When brought in: 11th Jan 1830
Entry No: 166
Prisoners Names: William Emms
Age: 49
Parish: Chedworth
By whom committed: H E Waller Esq, E Pitt Clerk, Wm Price Clerk
Remarks: Charged on the oath of Daniel Glover with having on the night of Saturday the second day of January instant at the parish of Chedworth unlawfully entered into a certain wood in Chedworth aforesaid called Wheatley wood and stolen and carried away a quantity of poles and underwood the property of The Right Honarble [stet] Lord Stowell.
Marks Stature etc: Dark hair bald on his forehead light brown eyes long face pecked chin dark eye brows a scar on right eye brow four small moles rh side his face wide mouth a scar rh side a mole on rh arm sevl moles on his left arm a scar little finger rh hand sevl moles about his shoulders read [ie can read] round should’d. Labourer. Heighth [stet] 5ft 3 and half ins.
When tried/result of trial: Epiphany Sefsions January 12 1830. Three cal’r months in the Penitentiary. See Penitentiary register [does not survive]
When discharged: 15th Janry 1830.
Conduct: Orderly
Remarks: Has been in the waggon train.
Others charged with the same offence:
No 167 William Harding, 19 of Chedworth
No 168 John Humphris, 41, Chedworth
No 169 Thomas Gardner, 30 Chedworth
No 170 William Lawrence, 58, Chedworth
Gloucester Archives Ref: Q/GC5/4
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Sabrina
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