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Plimmer Billy (William Henry)

pjmburns said:
He also seems to be in Yorkshire at some point - perhaps went up with Billy.
Do you know if he married?
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They did seem to get about, Not sure if he married but pretty sure he had children, i think he moved to Staffordshire at some point, maybe Lichfield
 
April I913. When arrested he said "I shall walk out of this case the same as I did the last."
Detective said the prisoner was a dangerous associate of housebreakers and other thieves. 18 mouths with
hard labour, and 2 years of police supervision.
 
He seems to have carried on offending even into 1930s. Also charged with assaulting his wife. Very few addresses given as he is usually "a machinist of no fixed abide". This makes it hard to verify but I couldn't find a birth for a Reuben Pmimmer in 1867 only William Reuben Gwnry.
 
Pedrocut said:
In July 1901 there is a further mention of Reuben Plimmer, brother of the noted boxer.
Not a nice account of assault on his wife. They had been married 3 years and had 2 children.
Hannah Johnson (15) was his wife's sister.
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Did it say if one of his children is also called Rueben ?
 
I am not sure if Maria went to Yorkshire with him but she seems to have "married" there and had several more children. On the 1911 she is Maria Brimham (married 4 years) and has a daughter Eva Johnson (is this a name change?) plus a son Robert. It would seem there are possibly 3 other children.
 
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