Thomas Leonard GOUNDRY 1898 – 1978 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 8 DEC 1898
Event Place: Coundon, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 MAR 1901
Event Place: 149 Atkinson Road, Fulwell, Sunderland
Record Source: living with his parents
Age:
2y

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 2 APR 1911
Event Place: 14 Watson Street, Middlestone Moor, Co. Durham
Record Source: living with his two sisters and their parents
Age:
12y

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1927
Record Source: he joined Sunderland Police Force as a P.C. - most of the cases he dealt with involved street betting or illegal betting houses.

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 6 MAY 1932
Record Source: at Sunderland Police Court he gave evidence against a youth who went into the Police Station and said he had thrown a large stone through the plate-glass window of a shop in the early hours but was unable to say why. He said he was unhappy at home and his parents did not want him because he was out of work and they had to keep him and "because I caused trouble and did what I liked" - he was sent to prison for two months.

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 2 SEP 1932
Record Source: John James BUTLER (53), was sent to prison for three months by Sunderland magistrates for wilful damage. It was his 99th appearance and when Supt. COOK remarked that accused had been many times at the Court for damage, BUTLER said: "I must have a mania for it". P.C. GOUNDRY said about one am. he heard a crash of glass and found that a plate glass shop window had been broken and BUTLER was standing nearby with a large stone beside him. He admitted the damage, saying "I had nowhere to go, and broke the window in my temper. I wanted lodgings". The Chairman of the Court asked him if he had got lodgings, to which BUTLER replied "Aye, I got them here"

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 6 MAY 1933
Record Source: he gave evidence of finding a man lying on the pavement and being attended to by a neighbour. There was a strong smell of gas in the man's house - he had attempted to commit suicide by piercing a gas pipe with a jack knife. The man promised not to repeat the offence and to go for treatment to the Poor Law Institution.

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1934
Record Source: he became a plain clothes officer in the Force.

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 3 SEP 1934
Record Source: at Sunderland Police Court he gave evidence against Stephen WHARTON (19), who was described in Court as "a member of a gang who go round dance halls assaulting inoffensive people" and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for an aggravated assault on Mary COOK (17), a further two months' imprisonment for an assault on Robert MALEY, and 20s. for being drunk and disorderly. In Court it was said that Miss COOK had just finished dancing in the Rink with a young man when WHARTON asked if he might take her home. She refused and he kicked her on the ankle. She hurried outside, but WHARTON followed, got hold of her and struck her on the face several times, knocking her unconscious. She was taken to the Infirmary with a suspected fractured jaw.

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 APR 1935
Record Source: Sunderland Police Court fined a man £30 for keeping a betting house. It was said that Police Officers kept observation on his house on three days - in three periods of about 15 minutes each a total of 18 people were seen to enter the house. Four P.C.'s including P.C. GOUNDRY searched the house and found £29-12s-7d., three unmarked football coupons and 763 betting slips.

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 5 SEP 1935
Record Source: at Sunderland Police Court a man accused of street betting was given the benefit of the doubt by magistrates. P.C. JERMY said that he saw the accused standing in the street when a man handed him a slip of paper and what appeared to be money. On seeing the P.C. the defendant ran down the back lane and into a back yard. The P.C. caught him in the lavatory, when charged the man said "I have no bets. They are down the lavatory basin". When searched the defendant had a betting slip and £1-10s-9d. in money. P.C. GOUNDRY said that he saw the accused accept the slip of paper and what appeared to be money from a man, and then run down the back lane. "I went to the front door," said P.C. GOUNDRY, "in case he came out that way". The defendant denied that he accepted any bet or that he put the bets down the lavatory basin. He said he had been at the club, and merely went round the back lane to the house to go to the lavatory. The back door of this house, he said, was usually locked, because the occupier kept rabbits, and one or two had been stolen. He said he was on the dole, but he had won 12s. by "backing" a football coupon of seven pinches and he won £2-8s-0d. at the "dogs".

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 4 JUL 1936
Record Source: Sunderland Police Court heard that on three occasions two P.C.'s kept observation on a house and saw several people entering and leaving it. P.C. GOUNDRY and three other P.C.'s raided the house and found the usual betting material such as slips and jockey doubles, but the quantity of material found proved that it was not carried on in the large scale that they anticipated. The occupier stated "I cannot even write my own name, what use would it be to me bookmaking ?" - he was fined £10 for keeping a betting house.

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1 AUG 1936
Record Source: at Staindrop Police Court Detective GOUNDRY of Sunderland gave evidence against Mrs. Evelyn PAYNTER of Sunderland, who was ordered to pay 4s. costs and 19s-6d. witness's expenses for failing to report an accident at Staindrop. A Mr. ROBINSON had left his car outside his house when he heard another car knocking against it. He saw a car with Mrs. PAYNTER in it. A man standing between the two cars threw something into her car, and she and the man drove away. ROBINSON then found that a hub-cap was missing from his car and a mudguard was scraped. Detective GOUNDRY, of Sunderland, said he interviewed Mrs. PAYNTER at Sunderland and she admitted she was the driver of the car. Her husband produced the hub-cap. The accident had not been reported. Mrs. PAYNTER said she had taken the wrong road and had to reverse, and as she backed the car it hit a stationary car. She asked Mr. ROBINSON if any damage had been done but he did not reply "which she thought was very ungentlemanly". When she got to Kirkby Stephen her husband showed her the hub-cap, which was "the first she heard of the damage"

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 30 OCT 1936
Record Source: he gave evidence at Sunderland Police Court when fines totalling £40 were imposed on four men accused of operating stalls for the purpose of playing "wheel-em-in at White's Market. P.C.'s GOUNDRY and CARRUTHERS kept observation on the stall and saw eight women playing wheel-em-in. They were paid odds of 3-1 or 2-1 according to the numbers marked on squares on a board. They rolled pennies down a small chute, the coins taking their own course when reaching a board marked into squares - if a penny went into a square the number of pennies marked on the square were paid over"

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 16 DEC 1936
Record Source: he gave evidence at Sunderland Police Court against the Steward and nine men who were charged with drinking during non-permitted hours at Fulwell and District Workmens' Club. The Steward was fined £10 and the men £1 each - they had been caught drinking a few minutes before 3 pm., when the permitted hours ended at 2.30 pm.

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 16 AUG 1937
Record Source: Sunderland Police Court heard he was one of three P.C.'s who saw a man taking bets in the street for which he was fined £10 as it was his second similar offence that year. Half an hour later the same three P.C.'s in the same place arrested another man for the same offence for which he was fined £5.

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 6 SEP 1937
Record Source: Sunderland Police Court was told that a man Detective GOUNDRY had arrested for street betting pleaded Not Guilty and said he had never taken a bet in the street - his job was to collect the cash from the men on the various pitches, and take it to the "big bookie. A bookie would not employ a man like me to take bets, when I can't read a word without my glasses" - he was fined £5.

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 20 JUN 1938
Record Source: he gave evidence of a raid on the Commercial Club, for which two officials were fined £10 each for supplying intoxicating liquor during non-permitted hours, and 13 men were each fined £2 for consuming it. P.C. GOUNDRY said "he had examined the books of the club and found that there was a loss of £106 in the last year, the total income from intoxicants was £334-3s-9d. The premises were structurally sound but dirty inside. He said he was not aware that the reading room contained 18 volumes of famous literature and the history of France." Asked by the defending Solicitor "Do you know any club in the country where the main source of income is not intoxicants," the Chief Constable interjected, "Yes, the Y.M.C.A."

Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: ABT NOV 1939
Record Source: he was appointed as Assistant Warrant Officer.

Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 15 JAN 1940
Record Source: at Seaham Harbour County Court, described as a Police Constable in Sunderland Borough Force, of Wearmouth Drive, Sunderland, he claimed £69-19s-6d. for damage to his car arising out of an accident near Dalton-le-Dale, when it was involved in a collision with a newspaper delivery van. He described following a lorry when a van pulled out of a side road, and hit his car, which overturned. The Judge said that it was perfectly obvious the plaintiff's car was over the white line or the accident would never have taken place, and it seemed to him that the plaintiff was entirely to blame.

Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 19 NOV 1940
Record Source: the Sunderland Watch Committee promoted him to Sergeant - he had been in the Police Force for 14 years, recently as an Assistant Warrant Officer

Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 20 DEC 1940
Record Source: at Sunderland Borough Police Court he gave evidence against a young man who was fined 5s. for riding a motor cycle without a driving licence, 5s. for riding it without a Road Fund licence, 20s. for riding it uninsured, and 5s. for riding it without efficient brakes. The man's younger brother, who was riding pillion, was cleared of aiding and abetting. The defendant said he had bought the machine for £3 and tried it out in a lane, which he did not think was a highway, before obtaining licences.

Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 18 DEC 1945
Record Source: at Sunderland Court Sergeant T.L. GOUNDRY gave evidence against a man who was fined £10 after admitted stealing seven pieces of glass-ware valued at £1-8s-1½d. from his employers, J.A. JOBLING and Company. It was stated that he had lowered a sack containing the goods over a wall at the Pyrex Glass Works. He said " I wanted them for Christmas boxes"

Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 DEC 1951
Record Source: Sergeant T. L. GOUNDRY read a voluntary statement from the car's driver at an inquest into the death of a man who was killed when he stepped into the path of a car

Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 17 NOV 1953
Record Source: it was announced at a meeting of the Corporation's Watch Committee that after 26 years in Sunderland Police Force he was to retire the following month. He was described as a native of Bishop Auckland who throughout his career had been a member of the police band and was now deputy conductor - "He is one of the foremost euphonium players in the district"

Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Death
Event Date: ABT MAR 1978
Event Place: Sunderland Registration District, Co. Durham
Record Source: Age:
79y