Boagey

NORTHERN DAILY MAIL HARTLEPOOL 13 JUNE 1893 ABOUT HALF PAST ELEVEN O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT , A MAN NAMED EDWARD TIMLIN, OF CLEVELAND STREET HARTLEPOOL, CROSSED THE NEW FERRY FROM WEST HARTLEPOOL TO HARTLEPOOL. HE WAS ASENDING THE STEPS TO THE TURNSTILES WHEN HE SLIPPED, AND FALLING BACKWARDS DASHED INTO THE WATER. JOSEPH STEPTOE AND RICHARD BOAGEY ,FERRYMEN AT ONCE MADE EFFORTS TO LIFT THE MAN OUT OF THE WATER  AND ASSISTED BY SERGEANT SWEETING SUCCEEDED IN DOING SO. TIMLIN APPEARED LITTLE THE WORSE FOR HIS INVOLUNTARY BATH.

The Life and Times of Mary Elizabeth Boagey, Hartlepool, 1856-1936 Mary Elizabeth Crabb, nee Boagey (Lizzie 1), born 1856 and died 24/7/1936. She was the sister of my great grandfather, therefore my great grand aunt. Mary Elizabeth Boagey (Lizzie 2): born 1891 and died 1934- my granny’s aunt and namesake. Mary Elizabeth Boagey (Lizzie 1) was the first of two children born to Margaret Atkinson (1839-1896) and Hunter Boagey (1837-1860), my 2 x great grandfather.  Their second child was Hunter (1858-1927), my great grandfather, who married Esther Banks Allen in 1890. Tragically, my 2 x great grandfather Hunter died in 1860 as a result of TB, aged only 23, leaving his young wife Margaret with two little children aged 2 and 4, fatherless and husbandless in very difficult times. The name ‘Hunter’ became a family tradition, originating from Isabella Hunter (1792-1849) and Francis Boagey (1791-1842), who married on 17 May 1812. They had 14 children, of whom the young...

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. /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ SEPTEMBER 1867. ISABELLA McMILLAN, AN UNFORTUNATE, CHARGED BY ELLEN BOAGEY OF STOREY’S PASSAGE, WITH DAMAGING HER CAP ON SEPTEMBER 2 ND  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...

NORTHERN DAILY MAIL 23 JULY 1894 RESCUE FROM DROWNING. GEO. FORTUNE AGED FOUR YEARS, WHOSE PARENTS LIVE IN UNION STREET, HARTLEPOOL, HAD A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.HE WAS PLAYING ON SOME STEPS NEAR THE FISH QUAY AND HAD GONE DOWN TO THE BOTTOM STEP TO, AS HE TOLD HIS MOTHER LATER, TO CATCH A FISH, WHEN HE OVER BALANCED HIMSELF AND FELL INTO THE WATER. NO ONE WAS NEAR, BUT THE LITTLE FELLOW SUCCEEDED IN GETTING HOLD OF A PIT PROP, WHICH WAS FLOATING IN THE WATER, AND KEPT HIM FROM SINKING. A YOUNG MAN IN A BOAT FORTUNATELY CAME TO HIS ASSISTANCE IN TIME TOGET HIM OUT OF THE WATER BEFORE HE WAS DEAD, AND HE HANDED HIM TO ROBERT AND JOESEPH BOAGEY, WHO IN ANOTHER BOAT HAPPENED TO COME UPON THE SCENE IMMEADIATELY AFTERWARDS. JOSEPH BOAGEY SCULLED AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE TO SHORE. AND HIS BROTHER ROBERT MEANWHILE USED EVERY ENDEAVOUR TO RESUSCITATE THE LITTLE FELLOW WHO WAS FILLED WITH WATER AND HAD ALL BUT SUCCUMBED. MR R BOAGEY TOOK HIM TO HIS (BOAGEY’S) HOME ...