Josias Bashford 1800 - 1880
Josias Bashford was born in September 1800 in Sompting Sussex. He was christened there on 12 October 1800. He was the third son and sixth child of of Josiah Bashford and Sarah Moone.
Josias was born after the family had been settled from Billinghurst into Sompting in 1792.
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Henry Wicks and Josiah Bashford, pleaded guilty to stealing on the 12th March, at Sompting, seven fowls and a duck, the property of George Trangmar, and Wicks also pleaded guilty to a former conviction - Bashford was sentenced to Four month's hard labour ; and Wicks to Ten years transportation (Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle - April 19 1851)
Henry Wicks, 36, labourer and Josiah Bashford, 28, labourer pleaded guilty to stealing on the 12th of March at Sompting, seven fowls and a duck, the property of George Trangmer. wick also pleaded guilty to a former conviction, for which he was senteced to seven years transportation. Bashford was sentenced to four months hard labour. (The Hampshire Advertiser, Saturday April 19 1851)
Henry Bartlett was charged with assaulting Josiah Bashford at Sompting on the 26th July. It appeared that plaintiff owned defendant some month and they had quarrelled about it. The Bench dismissed the case.
The same complainant also charged Henry Miller with committing an assault upon him at the same time as the one abovementioned, but at the suggestion of the bench, he withdrew the charge, preferring to do so rather than incure the risk of playing the costs, which already amounted in the two cases to 17s. (The Sussex Advertiser, Surrey Gazette, &c. Aug 22 1854)