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Church Sunday Schools Children’s Dinner

January 1840
Sheffield Independant, January 4, 1840 On Friday week, the children of the Swinton and Kilnhurst schools, to the number of 180, were regaled with an...

Accused of Stealing Palisading

March 1840
Sheffield Independent March 28, 1840 Thomas Askim was charged with stealing £50 of iron palisading,  the property of Mr Wilson of Kilnhurst. Mr Monteith appeared for...

Embezzlement

September 1840
Sheffield Independent September 26, 1840 Embezzlement John Hague was brought up on this charge, preferred by Messrs Charlesworth of Kilnhurst Colliery. The prison was of respectable...

Boatman Convicted

December 1840
Sheffield Independent December 12, 1840 Boatman Convicted John Hayton was summoned by the River Don Company for illegally breaking open Kilnhurst lock, and passing through on...

Brutal Assault

December 1840
Sheffield Independent December 26 1840 Brutal Assault James Greaves, of Kilnhurst, was summoned, along with a man named Morton for assaulting Thomas Stones on December 8. Mr...