While writing my blog I have discovered (through a newspaper account) a 4x great-grandfather of Ari’s – an agricultural labourer – who was charged with wife-beating in 1876. Now I have discovered (through the criminal registers on Ancestry and newspaper reports) a 5x great-grandfather of Ari’s, a weaver, who was convicted in 1842 of gross assault or “assault with intent to ravish” “upon a young girl only 9 years of age”. This ancestor was imprisoned and sentenced to two years