~ THE POLICEMEN OF CANTERBURY ~
CITY POLICE STATION AT THE WESTGATE/POUND LANE- built 1829
CANTERBURY
Canterbury City has records of Policemen who worked in Canterbury 1836-1860
A detail from my 1901 map, showing the Police station beside West Gate Towers on Pound Lane
Above is a recent picture of the Old Police Station on Pound Lane, you can just see the Westgate and the steeple of Holy Cross Church on the left
Showing some Policemen in front of the Guildhall in High Street (from my collection)
1838 DIRECTORY
Superintendent, John CLEMENTS, Station house
Inspectors
Andrew PLANK, 2 St. Peter's Lane
William BRADLEY, 1 Pound Lane
Policemen
Charles CHAMBERS, 20 Castle Yard
Edwin GIFFORD, 3 Artillery Street
William WISE, 2 Abbots Place
G. NORLEY, Church fields, St. Mildreds
J. EPPS, 24 Black Griffin Lane
Edward PARKER, 29 Union Street
Stephen WILSON, Chantry Lane
G. MILLENER, 21 Northgate Street
Thomas ADDIS, 30 King Street
Sydney SPRATT, Ivy Lane
Robert GILES, Artillery Street
James FULLAGER, 60 Palace Street
Robert SPRINGETT, Knott's Lane
J. P. WEBSTER, 2 Artillery Street
James BRETT, Old Ruttington Lane
Police Station - HIGH STREET
1850's
St. Peters Place, Westgate Goal
George Store, Governor of the City Gaol, wife Mary Ann Store is the Matron of the City Goal
Prisoner for Trial
Henry HOLDSTOCK
Thomas SIMPSON
Edward YOUNG
William BRANTON
Stephen GILHAM
*1830 was a Stephen Gilham, late of Canterbury, Hair Dresser (Canterbury, at the City and County of the same City, at the Court House. Sat Mar 13 at 1)
Miss Mary LUCAS
Miss Sarah SIMONDS
Mary Ann YOUNG
Sarah BUCKLE
Convicted Prisoner
Miss Hannah FEATHERSTONE * (c. 1851, unmarried age 21)
*could be the daughter of Robert FEATHERSTONE and Charlotte FEATHERSTONE (nee Patterson)?
Miss Catherine BURKE
Miss Margaret BURKE
1870's
David Elvey, Formerly Police Sergeant
George Kemp, Police Constable (New Street)
Jesse Manuel, Police Sergeant (30 Orchard Street)
Stephen Oakenfull, Police Constable (28 Orchard Street)
Thomas Andrews, Police Inspector (28 Cross Street)
John Clements, Retired Superintendent of Police (Whitstable Road)
John Groombudg, Police Constable (London Road)
Thomas Rye, Police Constable (London Road)
The Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday, April 12, 1879. The Police Force. A circular was read from Whitehall certifying that the Canterbury police force had been kept fully up to the requirements of the Act during the past year. Captain Lambert said Mr. C. Holttum had kindly offered to put the police force through a course of instruction in the use of the St. John Ambulance litter which was presented to the city by the Marquis Conyngham. There was no other business.
1879 Police constable STRECHE sent in his resignation in consequence of impaired health, and it was accepted. Supernumerary HAWKS will fill the vacant constableship, and there will, therefore, be no election of another policeman.
1879 - watch committee - ''previous to proceeding
to the ordinary business the Committee inspected the new police clothing."
1880's
Westgate Towers, Superintendent's House - Robert P. Davies, Superintendent of Police, with wife Susan and daughter Susan (all born in Ireland) and son Frederick George Davies*, who is an Iron Merchants Clerk *he was born in Canterbury in 1860 - The family came to Canterbury sometime between 1857 and 1860
Thomas Andrews, Police Inspector
William W.F. Ells, Police Inspector
Thomas Hayward, Police Sergeant
Jesse Manuel, Police Sergeant
William Andrews, Police Constable
John Pd. Holden, Police Constable
George Kemp, Police Constable
Edgar Ernest Hawkes, Police Constable
James Crisp, Police Constable
Reginald Mantle, Police Constable
Michael Munns, Police Constable
Stephen Oakenfull, Police Constable
Samuel Pryor, Police Constable
James Pysden, Police Constable
Thomas Rye, Police Constable
George W. Sell, Police Constable
James Sinclair, Police Constable
William T. Smith, Police Constable
Henry Tomlin, Police Constable
Henry Twyman, Police Constable
*Oct 22, 1888, Charles Hodges assaulted Constable Henry Twyman - CCA-CC-J/V/1888/239
James Twyman, Police Constable
Charles Daniels, Policeman, Superanuated
Joseph P. Webster, Superanuated Police Constable
Westgate Towers Prison (1881) Prisoners:
Thomas Furner of Canterbury
Patrick Donovan of Ireland
James Burke of Ireland
1882
PC Edward HAWKES, Canterbury Police
Sgt. Thomas HAYWARD and Constable Edgar HAWKES both of Canterbury Police
James McBean, superintendant of Canterbury Police
PC William Thomas SMITH, Canterbury Police
PC Thomas RYE, Canterbury Police
PC Edward HADLOW, Canterbury Police
PC George Charles ETHRIDGE, Canterbury Police (possibly ETTERIDGE)
PC James PYSDEN, Canterbury Police
PC George JULE and PC Henry TOMLIN, of Canterbury Police
PC Henry John SEATH, Canterbury Police
PC George GILHAM, Canterbury Police
PC George KEMP, Canterbury Police
PC Henry TWYMAN, Canterbury Police
PC George JULL, a police office, constable of Canterbury
1883
PC James HEWETT, Canterbury Police
PC James CRISP, Canterbury Police
PC Reginald MANTLE, Canterbury Police
PC James SINCLAIR, Canterbury Police
PC James Nicolas CRISP, Canterbury Police
1884
PC John Charles IVES, Canterbury Police
PC Edward HADLOW, Canterbury Police
1884 James SINCLAIR, Canterbury Police
detail from a postcard of St. George's street in my collection
City Police Station - 1889, Robert Peacock, Superintendent of City Police Station
1889
City Police Establishment (Westgate, Pound Lane)
"The council is required to provide a Police Office, for transacting the business of the Justices, and to pay from time to time out of the Borough Fund the sums necessary for providing, upholding, and furnishing, and for the necessary expenses of such Police Office."
Superintendent of City Police (Pound Lane)
Robert Peacock
Inspectors
Furmary?
Thomas Andrews
Sergeants
Henry Tomlin (Tudor Road)
James Sinclair (Laurel Cottage, Black Griffin Lane)
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Samuel Mouser - Police constable
William Saxby - Police constable
John Holder - Police constable
June 27, 1882 William Taylor, assaulted and beat constable John Holder, who was executing his duty as a constable of the City CCA-CC-J/V/1882/184
County Police Station - Resident Superintendent - John Wood
G. H. Cogan - Police Constable
S. Oakenfull - Police Constable
William Thomas Smith - Police Constable
August 10, 1874 Edwin Smith, assaulted William Thomas Smith CCA-CC-J/V/1874/158
July 5, 1877 Robert Woodrow, assaulting William Thomas Smith CCA-CC-J/V/1877/125
February 20, 1888, Benjamin Manouch the younger, assaulted Constable William Thomas Smith CCA-CC-J/V/1888/68
George Hollands - Police Constable
November 23, 1887, James Morgan, assault of George Hollands CCA-CC-J/V/1887/174
July 2, 1896, Thomas Hackett, assault and beat George Hollands CCA-CC-J/V/1896/135
Christopher Jackson - Police Constable
George Gillham - Police Constable
Edgar Hawkes - Police Constable
Henry John Seath - Police Constable
William Elvey - Police Constable
Henry Twyman - Police Constable
1890's
William T. Smith, Police Constable
Stephen Oakenfull, Police Constable
William Moore, Police Constable
Henry J. Seath, Policeman
Henry Twyman, Policeman
Feb 19, 1894 Richard Bradford, assaulted and beat Henry Twyman an on duty constable of the City and Borough of Canterbury CCA-CC-J/V/1894/184
Jesse Manuel, Police Pensioner
Thomas Andrews, Retired Police Inspector
1894
*from a photograph that was in Westgate Towers
Back row, left to right: Police Constables Mouser, Holness, Stone, West, Orman, Robinson, Anslow, Holder
Middle row, left to right: Police Constables: Reynolds, Lockey, E. Goddard, J. Goddard, Hawkes, Wentworth, Smith, Butcher, Ewell, Jury
Front row, left to right: Police Constable Swain, Sergeant Dunk, Inspector Sinclair, Police Constable Twyman, Superintendent Farmery, Sergeant Holland, Police Constable Ives, Sergeant Jackson, Police Constable Gilham.
1896
Mr. J. W. Farmery, Superintendent of the City Police
detail from a postcard of Mercery Lane in my collection
1900's
Edgar E. Hawkes, Police Constable
Leaf L. Dunk, Inspector of Police
William J. Holness, Police Constable
James Butcher, Police Constable (city)
1903
John W. Farmery, Head Constable
1 Inspector
4 Sergeants
20 Constables
c. June 1907 - Canterbury...Retirement of the Chief Constable. Mr. J. W. Farmery, the Chief Constable of Canterbury, has retired on pension, and his successor, Mr. L. T. Dunk, took over the duties from Saturday last.
1907
Mr. Holness, Police Constable
Canterbury Police 1910, courtesy of the WEST family
1917
J. H. Dain, Chief Constable
Inspectors - Richard Mark Swain** and George Thomas Smith***
5 Sergeants
27 Constables
1925 - Phone no. for city police Canterbury 48, Westgate
**was a police sergeant in the early 1900's, living at 10 Victoria Terrace on St. Peter's Grove with his family
***was a city police constable in the early 1900s, living at no. 4 Black Griffin Lane with his family
KIRBY LANE - COUNTY CONSTABULARY
1881
William Walker, Superintendent of Police *Police Station, Kirby Lane
Charles Humphrey, Groom & Police Constable *Police Station, Kirby Lane
George J. Cobley, Police Constable *Kirby Lane
Charles J. Jury, City Police Constable
1889
Divisional Quarters - Kirby Fields
Capt. J.H. Hay Ruxton, Chief Constable
John Wood, Superintendent
2 Sergeants
19 Constables
1903
Thomas J.R. Jacobs, Superintendent of County Police, Kirby's Lane
1925 - Phone no. for county police Canterbury 36, Kirby Lane
1673 Churchwardens of St. Margarets, concerning a child born to a woman on her way to the goal CCA
date? Richard JOHNSON, ribbon weaver, seeks position of Keeper of Goal
date? Joseph NELSON, ribbon weaver, seeks position of Keeper of Goal
1700 Charles COOPER - goal keeper (seeks also to be Seargent at Mace)