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From: "Jack Steer" <>
Subject: [STEER] West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:44:58 +0100

The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser web site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/ has a fascinating series of newspaper reports. It's one of those sites where a strong will is required to stop reading the transcriptions. Search for coroner and then look for Brazilian slavers murder seamen to see what I mean.

The STEER entries that I found are

Friday 16 September 1836

Game License applications - County of Cornwall

Persons who have obtained Game Certificates for the year 1836:

James STEER - Whitestone



Friday 15 September 1837

GAME LISTS

Game License applications - County of Cornwall - Persons who have obtained Game Certificates for the year 1837:

List 1 - General Certificates at £3 13s 6d each (three and a half guineas)

James STEER - Whitestone



Friday 13 September 1839

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT - CORONER'S INQUESTS

We announced in a large portion of our last week's papers, that a melancholy and fatal accident had taken place on Thursday at the Great Consols mine. On Saturday, an inquest was held before John Carlyon, Esq., on John PENTURRICK and James TRURON, at Perranarworthal, when the following evidence was given: James TADDY, one of the captains of the mine, said: on Thursday last, I was employed in superintending the loading of some carts with cast iron, about 30 feet from the boiler house engine, at Pearce's district of the mine; I went there about eleven o'clock and about a quarter before one I heard a very loud explosion. I looked up and saw the air full of slate, bricks, timber and all kinds of things of that nature. I ran north about 20 yards for shelter and then returned to the boiler house. There were three boilers in the house; one of them had burst and the connecting pipe between the three having been broken off by the explosion, the steam from the other two was escaping and I could not get in. I then went to the engine house and saw the engine man, Richard STEER. He was uninjured and on looking up I saw the boy who attended him out of the stage.

There is quite a lot more on this story on the web site



Friday 3 July 1840

RICHARD HONEY, 19 - was charged with having stolen 12 gallons of barley, the property of Samuel WARDEN, his master, of Endellion and JOHN SKINNER, 50, of Port Isaac, was charged with having received the same, knowing it to have been stolen. It appeared from the statement of the advocate, which was borne out by evidence that in February last, Skinner had a gun which he offered for sale to the other prisoner, Honey; and on the latter telling him that he had no money to purchase it, Skinner said there is plenty of barley at home in your master's granary; I will take it up in barley as well as in anything else. On one Sunday evening, Honey, when his master's family were at chapel and his master in the house, went into the granary and stole the barley in question. He then got his master's horse and put the bag on it, taking with him a boy named STEER, a fellow servant and proceeded to the premises of the other prisoner. When he reached there, he placed the barley in the garden and then went round to Skinner's front door and went into the house. Skinner afterwards went up stairs and the witness heard a door that led into the garden creak; and on Skinner's return he brought with him a bag which he handed to Honey. There was other evidence which fully established the guilt of both parties; and the jury found them Guilty.



Friday 4 June 1841

TO WILLIAM RASHLEIGH, JUN., ESQ

We the undersigned electors of the Eastern Division of the County of Cornwall, feeling the importance of the present crisis of public affairs, when the government have placed so many of the great interests of the country in hostile collision and being confident that a second candidate whose opinions are in accordance with ours, would receive the support of a large body of the constituency, request you to allow yourself to be put in nomination at the coming elections, in conjunction with Lord ELIOT. We feel assured that although the duties we seek to impose upon you are arduous, you will not, on an occasion when British agriculture is threatened with destruction, refuse to undertake them.

James STEER was one of many signatories



The Committee beg to apologise for closing the List Requisitionists at this point - there not being sufficient time in the interval before the publication of the Newspapers for the completion of the Lists which are hourly reaching the Committee. The Committee cannot but congratulate the constituency on the extent of support which a circulation of the Requisition for only two days has received and express their perfect assurance that the Election of Lord ELIOT and W. RASHLEIGH jun., Esq., as Representative for the Eastern Division, may be regarded as certain, whenever a Dissolution takes place. Liskeard, June 2nd, 1841.



TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF EAST CORNWALL

Gentlemen, Your call on me to allow myself to be nominated at the ensuing Election as a Candidate to represent you in the Commons' House of Parliament, in conjunction with Lord Eliot, has created in me mingled feelings. At first I felt hesitation, but when I reflected on the moral influence and high importance of the Electors who have done me this honor, I determined to respond to their call in the affirmative. Young as I am, I yet flatter myself that I am sufficiently acquainted with the principles of our glorious constitution to see clearly that the tendency of the measures of the present Government, if adopted, will be subversive of all that is good and valuable in it. If you do me the honor to return me as your representative, my firm determination will be to protect and support the Agricultural Interest, being convinced that I shall thus most effectually protect and support the most essential interest in this mighty Empire; and not the less maintain the interests of the miner, the manufacturer and other classes, whose prosperity must ever be inseparably connected with Agriculture. I will never consent to any measure which will make the inhabitants of this (.in.?) nation dependent on Foreign powers for a supply of bread - the staff of human life. I will endeavour to uphold our Noble Institutions, Ecclesiastical and Civil, whilst I shall not shrink from consenting to any well digested and judicious plans, for increasing their usefulness and efficiency. To the very important measures for the amendment of the Poor Laws, which must in the next session of Parliament occupy the Legislature, my attention will be given with the anxious endeavour to render them, in spirit and administration as considerate as possible of the wants and necessities of the Poor and at the same time properly regardful(?) of the just interests of those classes by whom the burthen is borne. Anticipating that these sentiments are in accordance with your own, I accept your flattering invitation; and I hope you will find in me the uncompromising and unflinching advocate of the principles which to all honest integrity I now avow to you. Gentlemen, in conclusion, I beg to thank you for the Distinguished honour which you have done me and remain your very faithful obliged servant, W RASHLEIGH, junior Menabilly, 2 June 1841



Friday 2 May 1845

Death

At Padstow, last week, Ann HELLYER aged 93 years; and the wife of Mr William STEAR aged 43 years



Friday 2 May 1845

Marriage

At the Old Gravel Pit Meeting House, Homerton on the 24th ult., the Rev. Joseph STEER, Independent minister. Torpoint, to Hannah, second daughter of Mrs DOBSON, Kingsland, London



Friday 5 December 1845

ACCIDENT AT SEA - CAPTAIN STEER, of the brigantine "Albion," of Exeter, was drowned on Tuesday night, off the Longships. The vessel was homeward bound from Newfoundland to Plymouth, with a cargo of fish, &c.; the last time the captain was seen by the crew, he was standing on the taffrail, looking out and giving directions. They missed him shortly afterwards, but are ignorant of the precise moment when he lost his life. They, however, conjectured that he must have been struck and washed away by one of the tremendous seas they encountered about that time.



Monday 19 September 1887

Birth

STEER - At Truro, September 14, the wife of Mr William STEER, dairyman, of a son.



And I couldn't miss this

ST GERMAN'S FAIR. At this fair, held on Monday last, the following prices were obtained - Fat Steers from 52s to 56s



Regards,
Jack Steer
Banbury

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