{"id":1518,"date":"2013-09-01T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T23:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:50:30","slug":"two-boys-steal-john-olivers-guns-for-armed-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/two-boys-steal-john-olivers-guns-for-armed-burglary","title":{"rendered":"Two Boys Steal John Oliver&#8217;s Guns For Armed Burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1520 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/burglar.jpg\" alt=\"Burglar Clipart\" width=\"150\" height=\"82\" \/><strong><a title=\"John Oliver\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/familytree\/fam1778.html\">John Oliver<\/a><\/strong> was my 3 x great-grandfather. He was a farmer in a hamlet called Bramwith Woodhouse, a few miles from Doncaster in Yorkshire. John held a game certificate, presumably for killing wildlife or vermin, etc. and one summer night in 1847, two seventeen year-old lads broke into his house and stole a couple of double-barrelled guns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These same guns were used in a second burglary the following night at another house. The young lads stood at either end of the bed of one Samuel Rudman with the guns in their hands and demanded &#8216;his money or his life&#8217;. They were disturbed and made off with three shillings, a handkerchief and two ounces of tobacco. A few days later, John Oliver&#8217;s guns were found in the possession of the two criminals and the lads received the sentence of transportation for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I looked up the Criminal Registers and discovered that this was neither of the boys&#8217; first offence. Richard Bisbroun or Bisbrown had committed larceny in 1844 and was sentenced to be whipped and impisoned for 1 month. He was at it again in 1846 and was sentenced to be whipped and impisoned for 1 week. James Walker had also committed larceny in 1842 at the age of 12. He received the sentence of whipping and imprisonment for 1 month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver was my 3 x great-grandfather. He was a farmer in a hamlet called Bramwith Woodhouse, a few miles from Doncaster in Yorkshire. John held a game certificate, presumably for killing wildlife or vermin, etc. and one summer night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/two-boys-steal-john-olivers-guns-for-armed-burglary\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancestors-corner","tag-oliver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}