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Thomas Leonard GOUNDRY 1898 – 1978 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 8 DEC 1898

Birth Location: Coundon, Co. Durham

Death Date: ABT MAR 1978

Death Location: Sunderland Registration District, Co. Durham

Father: Frederick GOUNDRY

Mother: Elizabeth MALLABAR

Spouse(s): Bertha LEE

Children(s):

It was in 1898 that Thomas Leonard GOUNDRY was born in Coundon, Co. Durham, a child of Frederick GOUNDRY and Elizabeth Ann MALLABAR. Thomas Leonard GOUNDRY went on to marry Bertha LEE. Thomas Leonard GOUNDRY was deceased by 1978 in Sunderland Registration District, Co. Durham.

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Parents

Frederick GOUNDRY
1874 – 1956
Birth Location: Thomas Street, Coundon, Co. Durham
FG
Elizabeth MALLABAR
1874 –
Birth Location: Birtley, Co. Durham
EM

Spouses(s)

Bertha LEE
1898 –
Birth Location: –
BL

Children(s)

Sources

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

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 3
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 hom

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 hav

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 t

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 1934
    Record Source: he became a plain clothes officer in the Force.

    Genealogy Event 7
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 ass

    Genealogy Event 8
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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. Fou

    Genealogy Event 9
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 s

    Genealogy Event 10
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 an

    Genealogy Event 11
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 l

    Genealogy Event 12
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 sa

    Genealogy Event 13
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 dri

    Genealogy Event 14
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 anothe

    Genealogy Event 15
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 t

    Genealogy Event 16
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 boo

    Genealogy Event 17
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: ABT NOV 1939
    Record Source: he was appointed as Assistant Warrant Officer.

    Genealogy Event 18
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 coll

    Genealogy Event 19
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 20
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 withou

    Genealogy Event 21
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 sac

    Genealogy Event 22
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 23
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 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 o

    Genealogy Event 24
    Event Type: Death
    Event Year: ABT MAR 1978
    Event Place: Sunderland Registration District, Co. Durham
    Record Source: Age:

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