Insight into life on Hartlepool's Headland 1867

An insight to life on the Hartlepool Headland 1867.
Some Boagey’s.
JULY  1867.
ROBT BOAGEY CHARGED WITH EXCITING A BRAWL ON THE TOWN WALL, HARTLEPOOL.
POLICE STATED, BOAGEY WAS CREATING A GREAT UPROAR,CURSING AND SWEARING AND CALLING OUT ANOTHER MAN TO FIGHT.
DEFENDANT SAID HE HAD BEEN DRINKING AND HADN’T KNOWN EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING.
FINED 1 SHILLING WITH 14 SHILLINGS COSTS OR 14 DAYS IN JAIL.
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SEPTEMBER 1867.
ISABELLA McMILLAN, AN UNFORTUNATE, CHARGED BY ELLEN BOAGEY OF STOREY’S PASSAGE, WITH DAMAGING HER CAP ON SEPTEMBER 2ND 1867.
BOAGEY STATED THAT McMILLAN CAME TO HER DOOR AND STARTED MAKING A NOISE, KNOCKING AND SHOUTING. SHE WENT TO SEE WHAT WAS THE MATTER AND McMILLAN TRIED TO FORCE HER WAY UPSTAIRS “TO SEE WHAT WAS IN BED.”
SHE LIVED IN STOREY’S PASSAGE AND McMILLAN HAD LODGED WITH HER ON AND OFF FOR 6 YEARS.
ELIZABETH ANN HORSLEY, ANOTHER FEMALE OF NOT THE HIGHEST REPUTATION,CORROBORATED BOAGEY’S  STATEMENT......CASE DISMISSED.

IN OCTOBER OF 1867, AN ARTICLE IN THE LOCAL PRESS UNDER HEADING
 “A DISORDERLY PROSTITIUTE.”
 INFORMS THHE READER THAT ELIZABETH ANN HORSELY (SEE ABOVE) WAS CHARGED WITH HITTING A GIRL NAMED McMILLAN (SEE ABOVE.) WITH A CAN IN STOREY’S PASSAGE.
CASE DISMISSED ON PROMISE TO BEHAVE MORE DECENTLY.

BELOW I HAVE ADDED BOAGEY GROUP MEMBER
DAVE’S EXPERT TAKE ON THE ARTICLES FOUND IN THE LOCAL PRESS.
THANKS DAVE.


Hi, All,

Paul's little court cases wouldn't raise an eyebrow now, even though they were scandalous enough to be reported in the local paper 150 years ago!

The Robert could have been any one of four in the town at the time (my own GGF included), but Ellen Boagey wasn't one of ours, I have to report.  She was actually Ellen Bogie, nee Branston, from Sunderland, who married a sailor called George Bogie in Hartlepool in 1850 (who he was I'm not sure at the moment, but I remember doing the same searches a couple of years ago and I think I pinned him down then as being from Norfolk).  They had a son recorded as John George Boagey in Hartlepool in 1850, followed by two daughters in Sunderland, Ellen in 1852 and Mary A in 1858 (the only "Bogie" births in Sunderland at that time). On the 1851 Census, Ellen and her son are shown in Wells St as "Boagey", but on the 1861 Census she is shown as a widow living in Bond St with her three children, and the name is "Bogie" again.  It's probably around this time that she will have taken in Isabella McMillan as a lodger, starting off the six year period up to the 1867 incident.  As "Boagey" and "Bogie" would have been indistinguishable to peoples' ears, and with Hartlepool being full of genuine "Boagey"s at the time, it's easy to see how the names would be confused.

There was a real Ellen Boagey at the time, but she was born in 1850 and thus would not have been in a position to offer lodgings to Isabella McMillan in 1861 (or for a few years afterwards), so she can be ruled out as a possibility.  She was the daughter of Anthony Boagey and Alice Bell, married James Bennett in Leeds in 1869, and had seven children there.

Regards,
Dave

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