See also
Husband:
Owen Spong (1742- )
Wife:
Susanna Searle ( - )
Marriage:
1763
St Bride, Fleet Street, London
Name:
Owen Spong
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
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)
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
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