Clapton in Gordano and Tickenham.

1854 Oct 21 Somerset Quarter Session.

Penal Servitude----Four Years: Robert Denmead, breaking and entering an outhouse, the property of James Parsons of Clapton, and stealing two great coats and other articles.

1870 Jul 2. William Wyatt was charged with having on June 23, 24, 25 and 26, violently assaulted his wife and threatened her life. The wife was anxious not to press the charge, and tried to screen the prisoner as much as she could; but the magistrates insisted on seeing the severe bruises which the prisoner had inflicted on her arm, and the unfortunate woman then admitted that the prisoner struck her with a hedge-hook, that he kicked her when she was down, and that she was obliged to go to the hospital. He had been drunk for six weeks. The prisoner who was an old offender, was ordered to find sureties, in default of which he would be sent to goal for three months. He was locked up till the sureties were forthcoming. Wyatt, had obtained a summons against his son-in-law, Henry Broad, for threatening to kill him, but the magistrates, remarking that it was a mere piece of spite, dismissed it.

1883 Sep 24. Clevedon.Petty Sessions: Mr John Harris of Tickenham was summoned by Harriet Jane Reeves of the same place to show cause etc. Mr J H Clifton, solicitor appeared for the defendant. The evidence was of a disgusting nature and the bench, dismissed the case.

1883 Sep 24 Thomas White of Tickenham was fined 10s including costs, for carrying a gun without a license.

1890 Jan 4. Tickenham: William White Evans and Albert Kitchin were summoned for shooting a pheasant without having a game license on the 9^th of October. George Froud, gamekeeper to Sir Grenville Smyth, deposed to seeing the defendants, in company with two other men, in a field belonging to the defendant Evans at Tickenham. They had a dog with them, and were working the hedge. A pheasant flew up and Evans and Kitchen shot at and killed it. The land adjoining Evan’s ground was preserved by Sir Grenville Smyth and Sir Edmund Elton.

Mr J H Clifton, who defended, asked that the case might be dealt with separately, in order that one defendant could give evidence on behalf of the other, and the bench allowed this. William White Evans stated that on the day in question, Kitchin came to his land to see him measure some ground. Seeing a rabbit in the hedge, witness fired at it twice and killed it. That was the only shooting that took place there. A man named Wilmot, who was with the defendants on the 9^th of October, swore that only Evans fired, and he shot twice at the same rabbit. No Pheasant was fired at whatever. Joseph Evans and Albert Kitchin corroborated, the last named denying that he had shoot any bird on the morning in question. The bench dismissed the case against each of the defendants.