EARLY SLINGO's

In 1730 a Thomas Slingo appears in the Somerset County Tax records, living at Mattapany Hundred, Maryland, U.S.A. and that year he move to the Bogerternorten Hundred or was he living on the border and they tried to tax him twice. Year: 1730; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 85 Name: Slingo, Tho.; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-7-19160 Year: 1730; Hundred: BOGERTERNORTON; Household Number: 3 Name: Slinger, Thomas; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-7-19187 Year: 1731; Hundred: BOGERTERNORTON; Household Number: 142 Name: Slingo, Thomas; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-8-22892 and appears in 1731 records. 1734 he had moved to the Mattapany Hundred. Year: 1734; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 41 Name: Slingo, Thos.; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-10-29692 Year: 1734; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 41 Name: Slingo, Thos.; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: DEPENDENT MSA No: C1812-10-29693 The primary industry of the area was agriculture, particularly the cultivation of tobacco, and the style of living was plantation. The area shows a definite link with the British Isles. The majority of the settlers into the area came from England; but Ireland, Wales, and Scotland are well represented. Ed. Note: Intresting that this was an area of Tobacco cultivation as in 1911 to 1937 that Crookham in Hampshire, England (home of the SLingo's) became the only place to commercially grow Tobacco in England. Also appearing in 1734 tax records Thomas Slingo Jnr. which means Thomas Jnr. must have reached the age of 15. John Slingo appears in the 1738 tax records on reaching 15. Year: 1737; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 75 Name: Slingo, Thomas; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-13-40084 Year: 1737; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 75 Name: Slingo, Thos.; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: DEPENDENT MSA No: C1812-13-40085 Year: 1738; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 89 Name: Slingo, Thomas; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-14-44031 Year: 1738; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 89 Name: Slingo, Thos.; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: DEPENDENT MSA No: C1812-14-44032 Year: 1738; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 89 Name: Slingo, John; Standardized Name: SLINGO, JOHN; Status: DEPENDENT MSA No: C1812-14-44033 It appears that in 1738 Thomas Slingo Jnr perchased land if he married at this date its not known Dates: 1738/08/16 Description: Deed, William Whittington, Jr. to Thomas Slingo, Jr. for Summerfield [now WI]. Dated 1738/07/29. Recorded: EI, pp. 316-317. Accession No.: 16,828 MSA No.: C 1777-155 Location: 1/45/4/56 These three appear up to 1739. Year: 1739; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 8 Name: Slingo, Thos. senr.; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-15-47878 Year: 1739; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 8 Name: Slingo, John; Standardized Name: SLINGO, JOHN; Status: DEPENDENT MSA No: C1812-15-47879 Year: 1739; Hundred: MATTAPANY; Household Number: 93 Name: Slingo, Thos.; Standardized Name: SLINGO, THOMAS; Status: HEAD - TAXED MSA No: C1812-15-48035 It is presumed that this is a family migrated to U.S. from England but no record have been found to this date. The IGI. records shows a Hannah Slingo born about. 1723 at Somerset County married at the age of 30 to a Nathan(iel) Townsend.in the year 1753 at Somerset County. This record also appears in a tree (on ancestry.com) Grubb-Griffith and related Families. and gives their children as Mary Townsend, Ann Townsend and Comfort Townsend who married a Abraham Newton. Nathaniel Townsend born 1723 was the son of Jeremiah Townsend and Comfort Barkley, he died in 1775 in Worcester County, MD. No other records found regarding this family of Slingo's what happened to them 1770's was the war of independence ????? So what have we, a family consisting of: Thomas Slingo the father. crt. 1698 Thomas Slingo born about 1718 son. John Slingo born about 1722 son. Hannah Slingo born about 1723 daughter. Can anyone Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Below is a map which gives an idea of the Hundreds in Maryland at that date. or go to a better one: www.rootsweb.com/~mdsomers/lyonmaps/1734hundreds.htm Use the link below to go to information of governer's of Delaware look up 'William Barkley Cooper', his mother is of particular intrest 'Comfort Townsend (Barkley) Cooper'. was this Nathaniel Townsend's mother ???????? His (Williams) Brother was Congressman Thomas Cooper ! This for Thomas details www.russpickett.com/history/sentbio3.htm Governor William Barkley Cooper

Canada

Ann (Burriet) Slingo appears in the Canadian Census of 1881 age 72, born in England, she was living with a Thomas Carr age 86 at Oxford West- Oxford South. Ontario.
She is interred at Hillcrest, Tara, Arran Township, Bruce County, Ontario.
A Charles Slingo also is there presumed to be her husband.
The best candidate for Charles in my database is Charles Slingo baptised 29 Mar 1807 at Kempsford, Gloucester, England the son of William and Mary. (as appears in Slingo's of Oxford family 2) no further record of the above Charles has been found in the UK, and he could have married Ann in Canada.

A George Henry Slingo b 1845 in Woodstock Ontario, appears in the 1881 Census a Farmer living at Amabel, Bruce North, Ontario. He was a Bible Christian, married in 1883 to a Susan Wilcox at Owen Sound, Grey County, Ontario. he reappears in the USA Census 1930 age 85 in California, his wife died in 1924 in Canada.
George Henry Slingo was the son of Charles and Ann Slingo, his adopted daughter Maud was married in Califonia, USA to a John Currey Ralls born 1883. she died 1967 in Chowcilla, Madera, CA. USA.
any relations out there !

we have no further info on them, If you would like to do a little research ?

Maybe of interest. He lived near and knew the Hampshire Slingo

Extract from the Journals of George Sturt. Vol.2. 1905-1927

It is true, I believe, that Slingo's skill and prowess as a labourer fill his whole being with a subtle through sub-conscious satisfaction; so that his day's work is to him what golf is to the idle 'gentleman'. There is more skill in it probably, than in golf, and more variety; it involves far more knowledge; and to this extent, the man's life is better worth living than many a 'gentleman's'. Yet I will not, dare not, say this in public, for fear of providing 'gentlemen' with an excuse for preserving the present economic system which makes them Enjoyers, and keeps the Slingo's of the world poor.

For if it's true that Slingo's satisfaction in his labour is altogether more solid than the golfer's satisfaction in his play, on the other hand it is false to pretend that therefore Slingo is better off than the other, and that he and we should be content for him to live as he does. If he gets much that the other misses, he also misses very much. He misses aesthetic joy. His satisfaction is sub-conscious not conscious. He is not aware of 'self' (or his own soul) profiting by his labour. The rich experiences involved in it after all do not come home to him; and is like a child at play with beads which are really precious stones and he doesn't know their inmost beauty.

Why should he know it, if his life is already good to him? In the answer, I come to what is, perhaps, the deepest meaning of Democracy that I have yet struck. It is somewhat as follows:- Something new is happening in the world of men and women. In the Peasant times, whenever they were (some five centuries ago), it was enough for men to live in the folk way, fulfilling the traditions of their community, or of their caste. They belonged not to themselves, but to the pack, the tribe, the hive: instead of the tradition to govern a man's walk in life, his own soul, his conscience, is called for. That is the trend of the times, and we ought to fall in with it.

Consider Slingo's work. Every cut that he makes in the earth, with pick or shovel, fits in and has its place in the vast pattern of national Industry. Industry absorbs its millions of Slingos, nor have they, individually mattered at all, in comparison with the web or network of Doings, to which each contributes his tiny part. So economists view the position; so we have all viewed it. Industry is more than the men engaged in it; the hive more than the bees. They are its servants; backward and forwards they go over the infinite network, to and fro, patching it, keeping it together, in a day-long, life-long effort; and that is their function. Even so in the fir woods one sees the millions of red ants, thronging on the heaped up nest, piling it up, renewing it summer after summer as they have done for a million years. And the nest -that bushel or so of fir needles - is the obstensible product of their Industry.

But suppose that it should occur to an individual ant here, and another there, that he was 'born to higher things'; and suppose that fateful admonition to come, through the generations with increasing numbers. Suppose the dreams should arise, that the individual should unfold his latent powers, and not spend all his short span of life at fitting his few fir needles into the heaped up bushel or so of nest? Obviously the result would be revolution in the ant world, because of evolution.

This, I think, is what is actually happening in the world of men and women. the whole tradition of Industry and Society is breaking up, is crumbling away, because certain men and women in increasing numbers are realising with increasing conviction that the Individual self must be considered. Consciousness has 'come to stay' . And consciousness is incompatible with that servitude to Industry which enthralls the Slingos of the world. the nest must exist for them, and not they for the nest, henceforth. We don't know why, or to what end. we only know that here at last, is the impulse, here at last after millions of years, and that it has got to be obeyed. and the obedience to it is Democracy. 26.8.1912.

James Slingo of Wellow

Thomas Slingo & others at Winchester Sessions

by Jenny Potter ( genealogist ) (Hampshire Tree)

What happened to Thomas Slingo, sentenced to transportation in 1841?

I found Thomas in the Index to the Session Records - Mid year session 1841, no. 46.

I looked up the full entry in the Session Records - the printed records of the court proceedings 29 June 1846 - and found:

Thomas Slingo 42 [N] for stealing one ewe sheep property of Samuel Andrews, in the parish of Crondall: 10 years transportation.

I then checked the Committal Registers. These are the records of people committed to the gaol until their trial and there is a column for adding what happened to them after the trial, headed "How disposed".



567, Committed 23 June; Thomas Slingo 42 labourer; stealing a sheep; 10

years transportation.

The final record of the proceedings was the Calendar of Quarter Sessions for mid year 1841. This contains the precise orders given regarding what is to happen to the prisoners.



Prisoners held in the bridewell near Winchester:

"Thomas Slingo - convicted of Felony, to be transsported to such parts beyond the seas as Her Majesty by the advice of Her Privy Council should be pleased to direct, for the term of ten years"

The order follows committing Thomas into custody until he is transported.

Thomas was to be transported. There is no record of him having his sentence changed, or his being pardoned, or escaping, or dying. I could find nothing else that might shed any light on this.
Update : Just to let you know that Thomas our elusive convict has been found. Information received from the Joint Copying Project indicates that Thomas never left England. It appears he remained in prison or on a hulk until September 21st 1846 when he was granted a Free Pardon. He is described as being of dark complexion; thin build,5ft 4 3/4 inches in height with a scar on the second finger of his left hand and a scar on his right elbow. He was unknown to the prison system before this date. He is recorded as beign born in Cookham Hants. Wonder where he got to after his release.
(Jenny Seiffert)

(jenny potter cont.)
I searched the GRO burial indexes for two years after this sentence. If Thomas died on the hulks whilst awaiting transportation, his death would have been registered. [The death of one Thomas Slingo was registered during this time, in Thame Oxfordshire. I cross-checked with the IGI and found that there was a family called Slingo living near Thame who had a son called Thomas in 1835 so the lost likely conclusion is that this was the death of that child, or another Thomas in that branch of the family. ]

If Thomas escaped and continued to live in England, under another name, we have no way to trace him.

We must assume he did leave England on the transport ship. If he did not arrive in Australia, he could have died on the voyage - many did. Or, the records of people who arrived on this particular transport ship are lost.
The search for information about Thomas gave us nothing new about him, but it did yield a wealth of information on other members of the family.
The Index to the Session Records revealed a list of Slingo’s who appeared in court.
First, Thomas was not alone in stealing the sheep. Appearing with him were his son, Solomon 18 [N] and Timothy Hill 25 [R imp]
The notations in brackets tell us the following:
N= unable to read or write; R= can read; W= can write; imp = imperfectly.
Thomas and his son [and most members of the family] were illiterate.
The two younger men were committed on 16 May, but Thomas was not caught until 29 June. Timothy Hill was sentenced to 12 months hard labour in the bridewell [gaol]. Solomon Slingo was sentenced to 3 moths hard labour, but the order in the calendar of Quarter Sessions adds that during his imprisonment he was to be "once privately whipped" i.e. in the prison, not publicly.
Presumably Thomas was given a much more severe sentence because he was seen as the leader of the gang.
I did not follow through every case, but just took the details from the Session Records:
1833 Easter: George Slingo, 29, 3 months hard labour for being a rogue and a
vagabond.
This must be Thomas's brother. There is less detail in the records at this early date.
1844 Easter; committed 28 Feb, appeared in court 8 April:
George Slingo, 19 [N] Thomas's son.
Robert Cox 19 [N]
James Cox 21 [N]
All were sentenced to 6 weeks hard labour for an offence against the game laws,
probably poaching or something similar.
1844 December: committed 11 December and tried on the 13th: George Slingo, aged 20 [N]; 3 weeks hard labour for a misdemeanour
The next record is confused - the date is uncertain - but Solomon appeared twice.
1845 Epiphany: committed 30 October; tried - date uncertain; Solomon Slingo 21 [N] 1 month hard labour for night poaching
1845 Easter; tried 7 April: Solomon Slingo 21 [N] as above
1846 Easter; committed 31 March; tried 13 April:
Jesse Slingo 12 [R imp]
Eliza Slingo 14 [N]
They were accused of having "feloniously stolen 2 bavins, the property of Robert Chandler". A bavin was a bundle of brushwood. They were acquitted.


I subsequently found from the Crondall parish registers that these two were brother & sister, the children of Thomas's brother, George.

1847 Epiphany; committed 8 December; tried 4 January;

William Slingo, 19, [R well, W imp] 2 months hard labour for poaching.

According to the Index to Session Records, which is alphabetical, this is all the court appearances made by the Slingo family. It suggests a family on the edge of the law because they are desperately poor.

and at Oxford

Poaching seems to be a family trait. James' Slingo's brother Timothy Slingo came up before Oxford assizes on more than one occasion for poaching and he also appeared in the dock with Lord Charles Churchill brother of the Duke of Marlborough and several other villagers charged with rioting in Combe Church yard.

Anybody help ??????

Harriet Slingo Daughter to George Slingo and Rhoda Javes born 1838 in Farnham Surrey married a John Thomas Gough in 1855 and appears in the 1871 Census living with him (as Thomas Gough) at Reading, Berkshire. Thomas's Occupation is a Hawker. born abt. 1835

With two Children Sally and Thomas Jnr.

No more is found after the 1871 Census of Harriet and children ! Where did they go ?????

Thomas was born in Reading 11th May 1834 to John Gough and Sarah

In the 1881 Census a Thomas Gough age given as 49 born Reading, is found at Parkhurst Prison I.O.W. his occupation Painter. Married. A Convict.

In the 1891 Census he is found born abt. 1835 at Reading, Berkshire Occupation Dealer/Hawker, with a wife ANN born Ickford, Buckinghamshire, living at St Giles, Berkshire.

In the 1901 census Thomas born abt. 1834 is as above with ANN at 2 Bath Court, Reading. A General Shop Dealer (self employed).

His Death is registered 1906 June Qtr. Vol 2c page 193 at Reading, Berkshire, age 70 as John Thomas Gough.

Titcums from Jenny Seiffert

Hi all. I've eventually been able to find out what happened to Elizabeth Slingo the wife of Stephen Titcum from Berkshire. Sadly she was committed to the Parramatta lunatic asylum by Stephen shortly before the birth of her last child. She was aged 31. She was accused of wandering in the bush and carrying a loaded weapon. She also threw stones at a shepherd. She died alone and apparently forgotten by her family in 1854. Her child who was born at the assylum was sent home to Stroud NSW for her 12 year old daughter to raise. Her burial certificate records her only as Titcum. It seems she was buried in a mass grave at Parramatta. Her son Stephen moved to Rokewood in Victoria sometime in the 1850's. He is registered as a miner on the Break O Day diggings around 1853. He married Elizabeth McKerral in 1855 at Mt Mercer. Her family were from Shelford which today is about 15 minutes drive from Rokewood. Between 1869 and 1877 Stephen is listed as publican, possibly of!
the Lyons Victoria Hotel although another source states he was the publican of the Commercial Hotel, once Ratcliffs, in Rokewood. Hope this is of interest to the Oxford Slingo's. I have taken it upon myself to look after Stephen, Elizabeth's grave at Rokewood as it appears the family are no longer living in the immediate vicinity. One of their children and his wife are buried at Warncoort cemetery near Birregurra. I will be visiting there this week and will take some photo's. I'll post the longer promised photos v of Stephen and Elizabeth's grave shortly also.

Jenny