See also

Family of Owen Spong and Susanna Searle

  • Husband:

  • Owen Spong (1742- )

  • Wife:

  • Susanna Searle ( - )

  • Marriage:

  • 1763

  • St Bride, Fleet Street, London

Husband: Owen Spong

  • Name:

  • Owen Spong

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Robert Spong (1710-1775)

  • Mother:

  • Ann Frimbley ( - )

  • Birth:

  • 1742

  • Chertsey, Surrey

  • Baptism:

  • 2 Feb 1741/42 (age 0)

  • Chertsey, Surrey

  • Occupation (1):

  • 2 Jun 1756 (age 13-14)

  • Apprenticed to William Wheatley, Vintners' Company

  • Occupation (2):

  • 1776 (age 33-34)

  • Bed joiner, St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex

  • Residence:

  • 1781 (age 38-39)

  • Hatton Wall, St Andrew Holborn (Land Tax)

  • Occupation (3):

  • 26 Sep 1787 (age 44-45)

  • Bedstead maker, St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex (William Kinlock, apprentice)

Wife: Susanna Searle

  • Name:

  • Susanna Searle

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

  • Margaret Withers , widow , was indicted for stealing three pair of linen shift-sleeves, value 12 d. a looking-glass, value 6 d. a pair of leather breeches, value 12 d. a wig, a pair of stuff shoes, two linen handkerchiefs, and a linen shift , the property of Owen Spong, Sept 9.

    Hannah Spong . I am wife to Owen Spong ; the things mentioned in the indictment were lost from out of our kitchen on the 9th of Sept. I was not gone out of the house half an hour; when I returned, I met the prisoner on the stairs coming up.

    Q. Did you know her before?

    H. Spong. No, I did not; she had a bundle with her; I did not speak to her; when I came down, I missed all the things, and found the window wide open; then I ran up into the street, I could not see her, but I called out I had been robbed; she was taken and brought back in about ten minutes, and the things also.

    Old Bailey, 22 Oct 1766

    https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17661022-15

Note on Wife: Susanna Searle

Margaret Withers , widow , was indicted for stealing three pair of linen shift-sleeves, value 12 d. a looking-glass, value 6 d. a pair of leather breeches, value 12 d. a wig, a pair of stuff shoes, two linen handkerchiefs, and a linen shift , the property of Owen Spong, Sept 9.

Hannah Spong . I am wife to Owen Spong ; the things mentioned in the indictment were lost from out of our kitchen on the 9th of Sept. I was not gone out of the house half an hour; when I returned, I met the prisoner on the stairs coming up.

Q. Did you know her before?

H. Spong. No, I did not; she had a bundle with her; I did not speak to her; when I came down, I missed all the things, and found the window wide open; then I ran up into the street, I could not see her, but I called out I had been robbed; she was taken and brought back in about ten minutes, and the things also.

Old Bailey, 22 Oct 1766

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17661022-15