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Can anyone find why someone in my tree was in Prison on the 1911 census?
Walter Wallis Langsford b.1856 Carlisle.
He was living in Birmingham with his wife and family.He worked as a Railway Clerk..
Thank you
Sheila
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Just for our reference - badly mistranscribed on Ancestry;
William Goford
in the 1911 England Census
Name: William Goford [Walter Langsford]
Age in 1911: 55
Estimated birth year: abt 1856
Relation to Head: Prisoner
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Carlisle, Cumberland, England
Civil Parish: Birmingham
County/Island: Warwickshire
Country: England
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Formerly Clerk on Railway
Registration district: Birmingham
Registration District Number: 384
Sub-registration district: All Saints
ED, institution, or vessel: 28-32
Piece: 18060
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Birmingham Daily Gazette 04 November 1909
Struggle Against Poverty
Annie Langsford of 242 Hospital Street summoned her husband Walter Wallace Langsford , at the Birmingham Police Court yesterday, for arrears under a maintenance order. In answer to the magistrates, the defendant said at present he was out of work, but was receiving 3s a week from the Salvation Army, which was also endeavoring toprocure him a situation. Out of that sum he gave his wife a shilling a week and lived on the remainder .
Mrs Langsford stated she had had thirteen children, ten of whom were alive and five of whom were under the age of 16.
Mr W L Powell (chairman) 'What do you do for a living?'- I am a hook and eye carder, and often sit up until three or four o'clock in the morning carding the hooks and eyes, but can't earn more than 4 shillings a week. It is very hard sir.
The Chairman- 'We are very sorry for you'
Mrs Langsford continuing her story said that at the present time time they had neither food nor fuel in the house. She had applied to both the parish and the City Aid Society, but had not been successful in obtaining assistance from either of those bodies.
Defendant offered to increase his payments to 1s 6d. a week while still out of work and when in better circumstances he would comply with the order.
The Magistrates sympathised with the woman, and hander her a sum of money, the Chairman saying it was a very sad case indeed.
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So did he go to prison for failing to pay maintenance?
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???? - different spelling
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Series HO27
Source Home Office: Criminal Registers, England And Wales, 1805-1892
Record set England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935
First name(s) Walter
Last name Langford
Year 1883
Session date 04 Jan 1883
Court Birmingham
Archive The National Archives
Documents Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
Piece scope Salop. - Yorks and Welsh counties
Division Criminal Department
Class 27
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Prison registers
Collections from England, Great Britain, Wales
15 months for larcenry after previous conviction
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Series HO27
Source Home Office: Criminal Registers, England And Wales, 1805-1892
Record set England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935
First name(s) Walter
Last name Langford
Year 1882
Session date 06 Jan 1882
Court Birmingham
Archive The National Archives
Documents Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
Piece scope Salop. - Yorks and Welsh counties
Division Criminal Department
Class 27
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Prison registers
Collections from England, Great Britain, Wales
9 months imp after previous conviction
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Thank you for the copy from the Birmingham Gazette. it is sad to see what had happened to Annie.
She had a sad life story. Her father owned two shops and was quite wealthy but her mother died at a young age and her father died the year she married. He left a will leaving all his children a share of his money. However I do not think any of the children received any money because of a scheming aunt. I know that my grandmother and another sister never had a penny or ever knew about the will.
Sheila
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Annie in 1939 with her daughter Olive:
Walker Household (8 People) 138 Avon Street , Coventry C.B., Warwickshire, England
John W Walker 09 Jul 1900 Male Shopkeeper Grocery Greengrocery Married
Sorry, this record is officially closed.
Arthur W Walker 15 Dec 1925 Male At School Single
Olive Walker 12 Sep 1898 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married
Annie Langsford 25 Jul 1863 Female Old Age Pensioner Widowed
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Austin,
I was in in contact with the Walker family some years ago. I do not think that they knew too much about Annie
Unfortunately I have lost contact.
Than you for your help.
Sheila
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