Somerset Record Office - Online Documents

On the Somerset Record Office Catalogue are some online documents. One is a List of Prisoners and one day I idly looked through this and found that my dear old Elisha GOSLING had been a prisoner. Oh dear, did our family get that bad! Anyhow, upon further examination it appears that Elisha spent one night there and was discharged. It is another piece of evidence of course, but what a superb piece of evidence this was. They say it is best to look under every stone don't they? You never know what is lying underneath. http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ - Index of prisioners in Ilchester Gaol

This was the result:
Somerset RO Letter Ref: TH/ENQ/P/67928 May[bury]? Dated 18 May 2006
Ref: Q/Agi 15/3 - Ilminster Goal Description Book records the following:-
29th October 1833 Name Elisha Gosling
Aged 63 [therefore born ca 1770/agrees with my research]
Height - 5ft 7 1/4inches
Person - Stout
Complexion - Dark
Visage - Oval
Hair - Brown
Eyes - Hazel
Marks - Cut under top lip
Where Born - Kenn
Trade - Labourer
Last Place of Abode - Yatton
Married
Number of children - 6
Read and Write
Remarks - Sessions

Ilminster Gaol Felon's Register - Som RO Ref QAGi 14/5 records the following:
30th December 1833 - Elisha Gosling
Aged - 63
Trade - Labourer
By Whom Committeed - WH Harford & R Baker Esqs.
Offence charged with - Suspicion of stealing a spade of John Hawkins
Verdict - Not Guilty
Discharged.

Jill