Jose Family

1851 census - Summercourt,John Stribley,Head,M,25,,Ag Lab,St. Enoder Cornwall,, ,,Phillipa Stribley,Wife,M,,26,,St. Enoder Cornwall,, ,,Marian S Stribley,Dau,U,,3,,St. Enoder Cornwall,, ,,William H Stribley,Son,U,8m,,,St. Enoder Cornwall,, ,,William Paulmounter,Lodger,U,19,,Ag Lab,St. Stephens Cornwall,,

1861 - Summercourt,1,John Stribley,Head,M,35,,Agri Labourer,St Enoder Cornwall,, ,,,Phillippa Stribley,Wife,M,,35,His Wife,St Enoder Cornwall,, ,,,Marrian Stribley,Dau,,,13,Scholar,St Enoder Cornwall,, ,,,William Hy Stribley,Son,,10,,Carter,St Enoder Cornwall,, ,,,Phillippa Stribley,Dau,,,6,Scholar,St Enoder Cornwall,, ,,,Ellen Stribley,Dau,,,4,Scholar,St Enoder Cornwall,, ,,,Catherine Mary Stribley,Dau,,,2,Scholar,St Enoder Cornwall,, ,,,Emily Ann Stribley,Dau,,,7m,,St Enoder Cornwall,,

Is this the William Henry Stribley who became a Police Officer? According to the website at http://www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery/police.htm#s he was appointed 10 May 1870, which would fit. Born St Enoder...

A William H Stribley aged 20 arrived in Australia in January 1871 aboard the Essex. There is a tantalising entry in the Victoria Police Gazette, dated 1887, mentioning a William Henry Stribley, 154 (his Police number perhaps or a page entry?)

Two articles about William - the first, as a Constable, the second following his discharge.. LARRIKINISM ON NEW YEAR'S EVE. William Elkins, a labourer, aged 21, waB charged at the City Court on Saturday with insulting behaviour, abusive language, and having assaulted Constable Stribley in the execution of his duty. The prisoner and a number of his companions were standing at a corner in Lonsdale street shortly before 11 p.m. on New Year's Eve. Constable Brenner ordered them to move on. They did so re- luctantly, and showed resistance to the police when they attempted to enforce the order. Elkins's behaviour made him con- spicuous among the others, and when Con- stable Brenner, assisted by Constable Stribley, arrested him he resisted violently. The companions of the accused, in response to his cries for assistance, stoned the police, and a missile intended for one of the officers missed its mark and struck Elkins on the head, causing a wound from which blood flowed freely. The prisoner was lodged in the King street watchhouse, but not be- fore the constables' helmets and uniforms and Constable Stribley's watch had been damaged in the fight. The prisoner was afterwards removed to the Melbourne Hospital to have his wound on his head dressed. In each of the first two cases the prisoner was fined £5, and in default of payment three months' im- prisonment, and in the third was sentenced to three months' imprisonment without the option of a fine. Tihe sentences were to be cumulative. Although the streets of Fitzroy and Colling- wood swarmed with larrikins and roughs until daylight on New Year's Day, owing to the excellent arrangements of the local police very little damage was done. No arrests were made in Fitzroy, and only two in Collingwood, one of the prisoners being a powerful young rough, who headed a gang of larrikins who went about with buckets, which they compelled the publicans to fill. The other was caught in the act of trying to smash a street lamp Article from The Argus (Melbourne Victoria) Monday 3rd January 1887 But, not many months later, Tuesday 12th July 1887, our William seems to have been discharged from the police and assisting crooks instead! - PERSONATING A CONSTABLE. At the District Court on Monday, before Mr Panton, P. M. , and several magistrates, a man named Wm. H. Stribley was charged, on summons, with personating a member of the police force. Inspector Pewiress con- ducted the prosecution. It appeared from the evidence of Herman Felderr, licensee of the International Hotel, Victoria street, that on the 30th of June a man left a swag at the hotel, and onthe evening of the same day three men came to the place, one of whom claimed the swag. As the barmaid who re- ceived it was out, and no one in the hotel knew the claimant, Mr Felder refused to give itup until the girl came in. One of the companions of the claimant said he would go and get a constable to compel the delivery of the swag. He left the hotel and returned with the defendant, whom he introduced as a policeman. Mr. F elder asked him if he was a detective, and he said "Yes," but. being asked for his card or badge he did not produce either. A girl named Annie Hunter asked him to write his name and number on a piece of paper she produced, and he wrotee, "W. H. Gelbrits, constable 2,094," and said that was his name and the number he wore on his helmet. The defendant did all he could to induce Mr. Felder to give up the swag to the claimant (who gave the name of McKenzie) but the latter was suspicious, and refused to do so, saying that he would get a constable himself from Russell street. He left the hotel for this purpose, and returned shortly after with Senior- constable McHugh, but by that time the defendant was gone. From the description given of the defendant, the officer took the girl to Blake's Hotel, in Russell street where she saw the defendant behind the bar, anid recognised him as the man who had represented himself as a constable. Senior- constable McHugh deposed that the defendant served as a constable at Russell street, but was discharged from the force in May, 1887. His registered number was 2,940. The number 2,094, which he gave to the girl, was that of a constable in Gippsland. There were some valuable articles in the swag, of which the men had endeavoured to obtain possession, and one of the men was a noted sharper. Mr. Panton commented very severely upon the conduct of the defendants, and the Bench impopsed at line of £5 , or in default one month's imprisonment.