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A SUSPECTED SWINDLER, named Sarah Westwood, an elderly ticket-of-leave woman, was on Tuesday remanded by the Clevedon Bench on the charge of obtaining money, food, and lodgings, value £5 10s, by false pretence from Mr. C. J. Ringrove, of Seavale Road, Clevedon. She is a very old offender.
— Western Gazette, Friday 05 October 1883 source
| First name(s) | Sarah Edith |
|---|---|
| Last name | Westwood |
| Year | 1883 |
| Session date | 27 Oct 1883 |
| Court | Guildhall, Bristol |
| Archive | The National Archives |
| Source | Home Office: Criminal Registers, England And Wales, 1805-1892 |
| Series | HO 27 |
| Documents | Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies |
| Piece | 196 |
| Piece scope | Salop. - Yorks and Welsh counties |
| Record set | England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 |
| Category | Institutions & organisations |
| Subcategory | Prison Registers |
| Collections from | England, Great Britain, Wales |
| Archive reference | HO 27/196 |
| First name(s) | Sarah Edith |
|---|---|
| Last name | Westwood |
| Age | 38 |
| Occupation | None |
| Session year | 1883 |
| Court | Bristol |
| Session date | 27 Oct 1883 |
| Area | Somerset |
| Victim's first name(s) | Emma |
| Victim's last name | Ringrose |
| Second victim's first name(s) | Charles John |
| Second victim's last name | Ringrose |
| Third victim's first name(s) | John |
| Third victim's last name | Maynard |
| Archive | The National Archives |
| Source | Calendar Of Prisoners |
| Series | HO140 |
| Piece number | 63 |
| Record set | England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 |
| Category | Institutions & organisations |
| Subcategory | Prison Registers |
| Collections from | England, Great Britain, Wales |
| Archive reference | - |
| First name(s) | Sarah Edith |
|---|---|
| Last name | Westwood |
| Occupation | None |
| Age | 38 |
| Birth year | 1845 |
| Year | 1883 |
| Date | 27 Oct 1883 |
| Court | Bristol |
| Place | - |
| County | Somerset |
| Victim's first name(s) | Emma |
| Victim's last name | Ringrose |
| Victim 2 first name(s) | Charles John |
| Victim 2 last name | Ringrose |
| Victim 3 first name(s) | John |
| Victim 3 last name | Maynard |
| Series | HO 140 |
| Source | Calendar Of Prisoners Tried At The Winter Assize For The Year 1883 |
| Piece number | 68 |
| Record set | England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 |
| Category | Institutions & organisations |
| Subcategory | Prison Registers |
| Collections from | Great Britain, England |
| Archive reference | HO 140/68 |
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SWINDLES BY A WOMAN.
At the Bristol and Somerset assizes Sarah Edith Westwood, 40 years of age, and described as well educated, has been charged with obtaining by fraud various sums of money, and also board and lodging, from Charles Kingrose, of Clevedon. The evidence of Mrs. Kingrose shewed that Westwood engaged a suite of apartments at her house and during three weeks’ stay there she obtained loans of money by representing that she had had a fortune of £30,000, of which £10,000 were still left. She said that she was a clergyman’s daughter, and was related to a lady of title, whose son she was going to marry in the spring. She twice hired carriages at Mrs. Kingrose’s expense to drive to Clifton, on a pretence of visiting this lady; but having been accidentally seen and recognised as a convict on ticket-of-leave, her true character was made known to Mrs. Kingrose and she was apprehended. Before the magistrates she admitted that she had undergone two periods of penal servitude; the jury now found her guilty. The judge said the record before him shewed that for a quarter of a century she had led an extraordinary career of crime. Her convictions for frauds at watering places commenced at Hastings in 1859, and were continued at Dover, Margate, Brighton, Southampton, and Portsmouth, followed by terms of penal servitude at Dorchester and Bristol. At the latter place she had been sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude in 1876. He then sentenced her to 10 years’ penal servitude.
— Rutland Echo and Leicestershire Advertiser, Saturday 10 November 1883 source
| First name(s) | Sarah Edith Or Edith Or Madeline Or Elizabeth Florence |
|---|---|
| Last name | Westwood Or Fitz Howard Or Vernon Or Harcourt |
| Birth year | - |
| Court session year | 1883 |
| Court session date | 1883 Oct 27 |
| Court | - |
| Source | Habitual Criminals Register |
| Archive reference | MEPO 6/5 |
| Archive | The National Archives |
| Series | MEPO 6 |
| Piece number | 5 |
| Year range | 1893-1893 |
| Record set | England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 |
| Category | Institutions & organisations |
| Subcategory | Prison Registers |
| Collections from | England, Great Britain, Wales |
