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Born on the 4th of January, 1830 in Tower Street, Hockley, Birmingham he was the fifth of nine children born to Joseph Warom and Diana, formerly Smith. Elijah was christened on the 20th September, 1830 at Saint Phillips, Birmingham. His father died when he was just 9 years old.
Whether Elijah was actually the father or just the stepfather of the
daughter of Sarah Forth, remains unknown. Jane Forth, who subsequently became known as Jane Warom/Wareham, was born on 14th September, 1851 at Hockley but her birth certificate does not record a father’s name. Jane’s brother John was born around 1853. It was not until 16th April, 1860
that Elijah Warom married Sarah Forth at All Saints, Birmingham. Elijah started life as a tin plate worker but was a shoemaker like his older brother, John by the time he married. Sarah was a french polisher. They had a daughter, Sarah Ann Warom born in 1861 at 23 Barr Street, Hockley. The Barr Street address appears to originally have been the home of Sarah Forth’s parents John and Hannah Forth, so we may assume that Elijah Warom took on responsibility for the household shortly after John Forth the bricklayer died in September of 1859.
There is evidence to suggest a further child was born to Elijah and Sarah, possibly the James Wareham, carriage and ship lamp maker, nephew of Ann Suter, widow, who in the 1881 census is found living together with Elijah’s mother, Diana Wareham who operated a mangle at 83 Tower Street. (Elijah’s older sister, Ann Warom, had married James Suter in the September quarter of 1844 at West Bromwich).
About 1-o-clock on Sunday morning of the fifth of April, 1864 Detective Officer John Stokes went to the Warom’s house in Barr Street and told Elijah that he was wanted respecting some cloth he had taken on Friday night to a house in Holliday Street in company with two others.“I know nothing about any clock, do you mean a time piece to hang against the wall?” asked Elijah.“I said cloth, as plain as I could speak” said Stokes. “I know nothing about any cloth” replied Elijah. None the less he was taken to Kenyon Street Station to be told the charge against him.Apparently Elijah knew more than a little about the cloth. “I did drive the cloth in a pony trap to Lockley’s house in Holliday Street. Lockley was to give me a sovereign for doing so. I did not know where the cloth came from. Lockley brought it to me in the street. Lockley gave me half a sovereign that night. I went for the other the next morning and had to go to Swatkins from whom the pony and trap were borrowed for the other half sovereign and Swatkins gave it to me.” The 230 yards of woollen cloth in question worth 92 pounds was stolen from a tailor and draper named Edward Hill James who had a shop at the corner of Phillip Street in Aston Road. The owner had
locked up just before midnight but the padlocks had been smashed in the early hours of the 1st April, the crime being discovered almost immediately by Constable Alfred Sales.
The record of examinations and depositions taken on the 8th April, 1864 at Erdington in front of two Justices of the Peace record something of a web of denials, admissions and accusations against each other between five individuals; David Lockley who had resisted arrest, Thomas Walker, Elijah Warom, Charles Smitten and James Bailey, all of whom pleaded not guilty. Elijah even cross examined some witnesses but it was all to no avail.
On the 28th June, 1864 Elijah Warom along with David Lockley, was convicted for shop breaking and sentenced to 8 years penal servitude (the other three received 8 year sentences for receiving stolen goods). All gaoled offenders were known as prisoners, but those sentenced to penalservitude (hard labour) or transportation were known as convicts. Convict Elijah Warom was
described as a married shoe maker with four children, five foot three and a quarter inches tall with brown hair, grey eyes, a long face, sallow complexion, middling stout with a mole
Submitted by Researcher (Ron Martin) on 9 February 2022
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/19, p.155
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