1810

Pembrokeshire and Haverfordwest Assizes. David Thomas was tried on the traverse of an indictment for an assault on David Thomas, a private in the Local Militia, with intent to commit an unnatural crime; the Jury returned a verdict for a common assault, and he was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment, to pay a fine of 10l and to find sureties for his good behaviour for three years.

Source: Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser 8 September 1810

1812

Free Martins are inferior to spayed heifers and make bad beef, being very coarse grained and very flabby.

[A freemartin is an infertile female cattle with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries].

Source: North Wales Gazette, 9 April 1812

1813

On Monday last, a female, in man’s apparel, was enlisted as a recruit in the 63rd regiment, quartered in Shrewsbury. She shortly afterwards confessed her sex, and said, that her object was to have been enlisted into the 43rd regiment, as in that corps she had a lover, who was now on foreign duty, and that she adopted this expedient from a wish to follow him. She was dressed in a blue jacket and trowsers. Her father is a respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of St Asaph, Denbighshire.

Source: Liverpool Mercury, 22 January 1813

1819

Mary Lloyd (1819 – 1896), a Welsh artist was born on 23 January in Denbighshire. She later moved back to N. Wales with her partner Frances Power Cobbe.