STOREY
In the 1800s there were 2 George STOREYS of similar ages living in Trunch but they had very different lives. One was a farm labourer from Skeyton who lived in Trunch for all of his life after his marriage. His son also lived here working for the farmer Alfred Primrose.
The second George was born in Bradfield in 1837 to parents Philip and Sarah Shreeve nee Harmer. He married Isabella Pooley in Trunch in 1860 and their 2 daughters were born here, while a son, Walter, was born in Southrepps in 1866. But it was in 1867 that things went badly wrong for George when with his younger brother Edward and 2 other men he was involved in an attempted robbery at John Wortley's farm in Swafield. PC Brooks, the Trunch officer, had received a tip off and was on watch but when he made himself known he was badly beaten and left for dead. However he managed to crawl for help and the offenders were caught. In court in 1868 both George and Edward were found guilty of felonious wounding and were sentenced to 20 years penal servitude. For at least part of their sentences they were in a prison in Portsmouth. Unfortunately the sentence did not reform George and he was convicted again in 1888 for larceny; serving 8 months in Norwich Castle.
This second imprisonment was obviously enough for George and 1891 finds him and Isabella in Sarnia, Ontario in Canada. I think that Edward may have already been in Canada and George worked as a farmer and he and Isabella lived into their 70s. Their son Walter was also a farmer, married Agnes Moore in 1897 in Canada and they had 3 children.
Meanwhile in 1881 both of George's daughters were working as servants in London, and although I cannot trace Laura, Priscilla married George Wilson Craske in 1885 in North Walsham and they had 2 children, Walter and Daisy. However by 1891 the two children were living with their grandparents in Canada and some sources suggest that Priscilla died in Canada in 1889 and George Craske re-married there after her death.