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Notebook of PC Williams, Carmarthen, c.1857

PC [later Sergeant] Williams of the Carmarthen Borough Police kept a series of notebooks detailing his daily activities. This table of local offenders is inserted at the rear of one of the volumes, the text inverted from that of the body of the book. It seems to have been a response to the call for the collection of such statistics by a statute of 1857, which in turn seems to reflect a contemporary concern with individuals who lived by crime rather than simply details of particular offences.

Image provided by and reproduced with kind permission of Carmarthenshire Archives (MUS 113).


TRANSCRIPT

List of Persons of Suspicious Characters with their Names and Aliases and Residences and Remarks Alphabetically

Names	Age	Aliases	Prostitute or Thief	If convicted & last time	If taken into custody and by whom	General Character
Awbrey, Ann	60		Prostitute		P.C.Woozley	3 Months H.L. for Drunkeness
Bostock, Mary		Young Bostock	Prostitute and Thief	Not convicted	P.S.Williams	Taken on suspicion of robbery but released. Suspicious
Beynon, David		Nailer	Thief	Not convicted	P.S.Williams	Do. Charged by D Williams, Carpenter, Priory St, of stealing half a crown.
Coomrey[?], Dennis			Thief	Not convicted		Suspicious
Campbell, Mary			Prostitute
Campbell, Jane			Prostitute
Davies, Eliza		Cap Dee[?]	Prostitute	Not convicted
Davies, Eliza		Liza Lan	Prostitute	Not convicted
Davies, Margaret		Ingyhorses Mrs	Prostitute
Davies, Hannah		Do. Daughter	Prostitute
Davies, Caroline		Santalena	Prostitute
Davies, John		Young Bogus	Thief
Davies, John		Bumper	Thief	Convicted

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