William John Houlden
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"A WORTHLESS FELLOW"
BIGAMIST SENTENCED TO 18
MONTHS IMPRISONMENT"This is one of the worst cases I have had before me for a long time. You deserted your wife and children 11 years ago, and they have since cost the rate-payers £1,300. That was, no doubt, a good thing for them, but it is, in itself, a serious offence. Then you posed as a single man, and married bigamously a respectable girl of 19. You are a worthless fellow."
In these terms the Recorder, at the Old Bailey, yesterday, addressed William John Houlden, who pleaded guilty to bigamy, and passed on him sentence of 18 months' hard labour.
Married in 1905, it was stated that the prisoner left his wife and children in the street in 1910. They had to go into the Workhouse, where his wife remained for nine months. His children were still chargeable to the Southwark Guardians. The second "wife" said prisoner was in the Army when she met him. She married him after six or seven weeks' acquaintance. He had not maintained her properly.
(Published in the "Northern Echo" on December 07, 1921) |
Collection of Marriages 1754 - 1936
Church of St. Peter, Walworth, Southwark, England |
Name:
Age:
Date of Birth:
Date of Marriage:
Father: |
William John Houlden
20
abt. 1885
13 May 1905
William John Houlden |
Eliza Norris
19
abt. 1886
13 May 1905
George Norris |
Collection of Marriages 1754 - 1936
Church of St. Dunstan with St. Catherine, Feltham, Hounslow, England |
Name:
Age:
Date of Birth:
Date of Marriage:
Father: |
William John Houlden
31
abt. 1888
21 April 1919
William John Houlden |
Henrietta Halls
19
abt. 1900
21 April 1919
Robert Halls |
Register of Criminals, 1868 - 1929
Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey), London |
Name:
Age:
Imprisioned:
Offence:
Sentence: |
William John Houlden
37
23 November 1921
Marrying Henriatta Halls, his wife being then alive.
18 months in Wormwood Scrubs Prison |
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