GHF-E090-N01 — 1891: “Llandough. Alleged Farmyard Theft”
Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E090-N01 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository
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Catalogue UID: GHF-E090-N01 · Custodian/source copy: open source object. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
Description
Catalogue: GHF-E090-N01 · Date: November 1891 · Publication: Unidentified Cardiff or Penarth newspaper (British Newspaper Archive clipping) · Press Archive index
DESCRIPTION A short court report of a theft charge heard before Penarth magistrates. The clipping does not show the newspaper title or page; the report itself dates the theft to 11 November 1891 and the hearing to a Tuesday shortly after.
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Transcription
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LLANDOUGH. ALLEGED FARMYARD THEFT.—Robert Williams, a mason’s labourer, was on Tuesday charged (before Mr. John Duncan and Mr. J. S. Corbett) at the offices of the clerk to the Penarth magistrates, High-street, Cardiff, with stealing three geese, the property of Mr. John Williams, Great House Farm, Llandough, on November 11, 1891.—Sergeant Ferris, of the Cardiff Borough Police Force, deposed that he saw the prisoner early on the morning in question in Clive-street, Grangetown, carrying the geese on his back. He at once started after Williams, who dropped the geese and got away.—Police-constable Morgan, of the county constabulary, said he arrested the prisoner when he was leaving Cardiff Gaol on Monday. The prisoner, when charged with stealing the geese, replied, “All right.”—The prisoner was remanded until Monday at Penarth.
Interpretation and wider context
INTERPRETATION The report names “Mr. John Williams, Great House Farm, Llandough” as the owner of the stolen geese. It is contemporary, independent evidence that a John Williams was farming at Great House Farm in November 1891, which is consistent with the family’s account and with the 1877 Bute lease to a John Williams.
It does not say on what terms he held the farm (owner, tenant or sub-tenant), and it does not say which John Williams is meant: the family’s account has more than one generation of that name. It should not be used as evidence of title, only of occupation.
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Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.