Page Three
Bingham in the News
1800--1900
These are transcribed by courtesy Trish Symonds from N,S,W taken from the News paper of that Parish.
Thursday, 31 December 1868, Leeds Mercury 9583,
FLOODS IN MIDLAND COUNTIES – There was a heavy fall of snow on Tuesday night, and the waters yesterday were at a considerable height. The meadows new Nottingham are covered with water. The lower storeys of the houses in that locality are submerged. A melancholy and fatal accident occurred on Monday night to two residents at Bingham near Nottingham. Mr DONCASTER, draper, and his son, were returning from Harby in a light cart when crossing the Smite, a small river in that locality, which had overflowed, and the stream was too powerful for the horse. Mr DONCASTER and his son were drowned. On the following morning a search for the bodies was made, and that of the father was found. The boy could not be found.
Saturday, 11 August 1870, Freeman’s Journal (Issue N/A),
A luggage train got off the rails yesterday at Bingham near Nottingham on the Great Northern Railway, and narrowly escaped collision with a passenger train. The line was damaged and traffic impeded for some time.
Saturday, 4 January 1873, Bristol Mercury 4317,
THE BURIAL SERVICE – A complaint was recently made to the Bishop of Lincoln as to the Rev Robert MILES, rector of Bingham Notts, having declined to read the whole of the Burial Service over a parishioner of immoral life.
Saturday, 7 April 1877, Western Mail 2476,
At the Bingham near Nottingham Petty Sessions on Thursday, nine men, principally mechanics, named Alonzo HOLMES, Joseph WALKER, John BASSFORD, John WALKER, Daniel PARKER, John Henry CLAYTON, Henry LEE, Henry HOLBROOK and John PARKER, were charged with having assaulted the Rev. Henry SEYMOUR (chaplain to Earl MANNERS), Mr Edward PIERPONT (son of the new American Ambassador in London), and Mr H.S. SWITHINBANK (Mr Pierpont’s tutor). The men were also charged with refusing to leave a public house when requested. The Bench found all defendants guilty and fined them one guinea each. The reason of the limited fine was that the prosecutors did not press the charges.
Tuesday, 28 August 1877, Leeds Mercury 12288,
MURDER NEAR NOTTINGHAM – At Bingham Petty Sessions yesterday, Thomas GRAY was charged with the murder of Ann MELLORS at Caroolton on the 20th inst. The deceased resided with her mother and brother, and was engaged to a Middlesborough schoolmaster named HOLT. The prisoner went to her house and cut her throat with a razor in a frightful manner, inflicting as many as ten wounds and killing her instantly. Prisoner was committed for trial on the capital charge at the Nottingham Assizes.
Friday, 31 August 1877, Newcastle Courant 10575,
MURDER OF A SWEETHEART – At a special sitting of the Bingham (nr Nottingham) Police Court on Monday, Thomas GRAY, son of a farmer, was charged with the wilful murder of Annie MELLORS of Car, Colstan, a village situated about 12 miles from Nottingham. The evidence showed that the young lady lived with her mother, and was engaged to the schoolmaster of the parish. In spite of this, the prisoner pestered her with his company, and because she resisted his overtures, he went to the house last week and cut her throat with a razor. The bench committed him for trial.
Friday, 17 October 1879, Aberdeen Weekly Journal 7696,
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SOLICITOR – At Bingham Notts yesterday, Zachariah STAFFORD, solicitor, Nottingham, was committed for trial on a charge of embezzling two sums of €175 and €21, moneys of the Bingham Highway Board. The prisoner was a member of the Nottingham Town Council, and clerk of the Board in question.
Wednesday, 18 February 1880, Derby Mercury 8616,
BINGHAM DISTRICT HIGHWAY BOARD – Advertisement asking for Tenders for materials and labour. By Order of Arthur WILLIAMS, Clerk, Market-street, Bingham, Notts.
Wednesday, 6 April 1881, Derby Mercury 8673,
A REMARKABLE PARISH – A curious case has been investigated by the magistrates at Bingham near Nottingham. There is a parish called Lodge-on-the-Wolds, consisting of one house only, and one family of brothers, named FLETCHER. They make their own rate, and one is appointed parish constable, another overseer, and so on. They are continually quarrelling, and were last week charged with having assaulted one another. They used agricultural implements in the affray. The four brothers were committed for two months, so that the whole of the parish is in gaol.
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