Dr William CAUDLE [31346]

  General Notes:

William Caudle
Birth Date: 6 Feb 1805
Christening Date: 18 Feb 1805
Christening Place: Lewes, Sussex, England
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Father: William Caudle
Mother: Mary Caudle

William was a surgeon, he attended a stabbing of a wife and a child who died, he gave extensive evidence at the trial of William Burt, the husband for murder.
Globe 26 August 1826
This William may have been his father.

Isabella Maria Bateman Thompson
Record Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 14 Oct 1829
Marriage Place: St Marylebone, Westminster, England
Spouse: William Candle
Register Type: Parish Register

A William Caudle was the signatory to a petition to the High Constable of the Hundred of Whalesbone, Thomas H Wright Esq concerning the Brighton to London railways
Brighton Patriot 6 June 1837

Mr William Caudle surgeon gave evidence in a case of assault of James Collet, by William Stanford.
He deposed that he attended Collet on 9 September who appeared to be labouring under much pain. His pulse was feverish, and witness therefore took some blood from him. Afterwards sent leeches twice. Saw his chest before the leeches were applied; there was then no black mark. There was a mark on the side after the leeches had been applied which appeared to have been a bruise. . . . .
Sussex Advertiser 23 October 1837

A William Caudle was registered in the 1840 Brighton Electoral Register.
He qualified by ownership of two houses in succession in North St & Gloucester Place.

William Caudle surgeon was subject to a most villainous assault by a John Hunt, so serious it was uncertain he would recover. The evidence describes William as committing a nuisance within a short distance of where Hunt his wife and another woman were standing. Hunt objecting, accuses William of striking him on the head with a cane and insulting the women. Hunt then struck William rendering him insensible on the pavement with his coat cut to pieces and his hat broken.
Hunt was fined £3+ costs.
The Brighton Gazette 18 June 1846
This occurred in Blenheim Place a very narrow passage leading to Gloucester Place where William had a house.
Did this attack contribute to Williams early death.

Deaths
William Caudle
Registration Year: 1847
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District: Brighton Sussex
Volume: 7
Page: 207

William Caudle
Gender: Male
Burial Date: 11 Dec 1847
Burial Place: Brighton, Sussex, England
FHL Film Number: 1067133
Reference ID: pg 346 ln 2768
England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991

  Research Notes:

Sussex Advertiser 19 December 1831
SUSSEX WINTER ASSIZES.
William Caudle, surgeon sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for bigamy.

Brighton Gazette 22 December 1831
BIGAMY (Precis)
William Caudle was charged with having on 13 November 1824 at Brighton, married one Susan Cookson, and afterwards in September 1829, at St Marylebone, Middlesex, feloniously married one Isabella Maria Bateman Thompson, his former wife being living.
As the prisoner had married by license in the first instance without the consent of his parents and whilst underage, his Lordship asked if there was a refusal of the parents consent. Mr Clarkson replied there was no proof of the refusal. His Lordship decided that a subsequent recognition implied consent.
Mr John Pocock deposed. I am clerk of the parish of Brighton; I know the prisoner at the bar. On 13 November, 1824, I was present at the marriage he entered: the prisoner was married to Susan Cookson. I witnessed the signature.
By Mr Adolphus. I knew the prisoner before, but did not know Miss Cookson; I don't know whether he was of age.
William Paux deposed. I am clerk to the parish of Marylebone Middlesex I find here an entry of a marriage between William Caudle and Isabella Maria Bateman Thompson: it is dated 14 October 1829. I was present at the marriage. I did not know Miss Thompson; I supposed her to be a be the person she represented herself; I cannot swear to her person.
E A Gibbon: prisoner's first wife was my wife's sister. I think the prisoner was 19 when first married; my wife's sister was about 30 I was not at the first marriage nor any of my family: it was all done by themselves.
Mrs Gibbon was then called and deposed that after the prisoner's marriage with Cookson, the prisoner lived with his father; he had no means even to buy furniture; her friends clothed, educated, and gave him means to walk the Hospital, and furnished a house for; he lived at Brighton by letting his house; he lived in London in the winter, and Brighton in the summer. She had three children by him; one died; he walked the Hospital about three seasons. I never saw Miss Bateman, but when she was before the magistrates at Worthing; she was then in the family way. When Caudle left Brighton the last time, he left his wife behind . . . . .

For the Defence.
William Caudle, father to the prisoner, deposed: my son was born on 6 February 1805. Before the marriage my consent was asked. I refused, as he was my apprentice and not of age. My son had no money when he was married.
He lived at Dorset Garden; I don't remember the numbers; he lived there perhaps two years; he lived with his wife that time; I went to see them, but only a very few times and that only on business; he was my outdoor apprentice; he continued so after his marriage. I did not go two or three times a week. I had no acquaintance with Miss Thompson. I saw her perhaps seven or eight years ago stop I have seen her in my own house, but she never came with my consent. I have not seen her at my house since 1829. I knew nothing of his second marriage. I never received either of his wives as daughters and I only saw him on business; I have never dined or drank with them; I have been a great loser by this marriage.
F. Caudle, younger brother to prisoner. Miss Cookson courted my brother, not he her; she was a good deal older; she lived next door; my father was not willing to the courting; they had a sort of Telegraph by moving the blinds. They lived very unhappy together, directly after the marriage; I have heard her call him names I should be ashamed to utter here. She used to tell him it was of no use for a boy like him to talk to a woman of her years. She was never received at my father's. I know she wished him to leave her. She said he might again if he liked, but she would never hurt him; papers of separation were drawn up, but not signed. She sold the goods after he left. I am now 22 when they courted I was about 15; a day or two before he left, she told him he might marry again. This was in 1829. My brother was 20 in February 1825: he was married in November 1824. I had never been in Cookson's house. My brother (the prisoner) had never been in Cookson's house. The blinds were moved up and down only at one house Cookson's. I never had meals that I recollect at my brothers, neither me nor my father. He turned my brother out of doors; my father frequently had communication with my brother; my brother came to father's, and frequently took his meals there; he came to or three times a week. I never knew my father go to my brothers house. He never came to my father's after he ceased to walk the Hospital. My father would never suffer Miss Thompson to come to the house. I saw Miss Thompson before the magistrates at Worthing; I never saw her before that.
His Lordship then summed up and said there was no doubt of the two marriages; and the jury finding the prisoner guilty he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
(The second wife is daughter, we understand to Richard Frederick Thompson, attorney-at-law who was formerly well-known here.)

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  Other Records

1. Census: England, 7 Jun 1841, Stoke by Guildford SRY. William is recorded as aged 35 a surgeon not born in Surrey.

William married Susan COOKSON [33994] [MRIN: 12197] on 13 Nov 1824 in Brighton SSX. (Susan COOKSON [33994] was born circa 1794 in Brighton SSX.)

William next married Isabella Maria Bateman THOMPSON [31347] [MRIN: 11111], daughter of Richard Frederick THOMPSON [33986] and Maria CLISSOLD [33987], on 14 Oct 1829 in Marylebone London MDX. (Isabella Maria Bateman THOMPSON [31347] was born in 1806 in Westerham KEN, baptised on 3 Feb 1806 in Westerham KEN and died on 14 Oct 1887 in Mayfield SSX.)