Matthew Larmuth
of Salford
Machine maker
1828 'EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT. John Hargreaves, Alexander Longthorne, Robert Thomas Owen, Richard Hargreaves, Thomas Royle, and Thomas Hales, were indicted for a most aggravated assault upon Matthew Larmuth. Mr. Brandt stated the case and called Matthew Larmuth. In August last, I was in the employ Messrs. Bowman and Galloway. There were two assistants working under me. They made their contract with me, and I paid them wages. On the 2Bth August, I went to my work, at six o'clock in the morning, as usual. Six or seven of the workmen, amongst whom were the defendants, John Hargreaves, Richard Hargreaves, Owen, Borthwick, Longthorne, and Hales, came up to me, Hargreaves said "You're a pretty devil, you are, to stop these men's wages, and you shan't work here." I said, I had not their wages, for I had paid them according to their agreement. The foreman then came, and ordered them off to their work, saying, if the man has done anything wrong, complain to the master about it. They then went away. I saw afterwards, about eleven o'clock, Borthwick and Longthorne opening the privy out, and making hole in it. Being informed the hole was intended for me, I went away out of the yard. I had got about 300 or 400 yards from premises, when Peter George seized me. There were a great number of men with him. George threw me down, and took me by the hands and legs, and carried me to the hole in the privy. One said, don't put him there, take and put him in the water. They then carried me, by the hands and feet, to the canal, which passes close by the yard, and pushed me in. I got across as well as I could. I then was making my way home, when some of them came round and met me beside the iron bridge. Longthorne first came up, followed by more than fifty others. Hales was also there, but I cannot speak to any others of the defendants. Longthorne says "Now, d--n you, we'll fix you " They then all came up, and seized me by the legs. Hales kept kicking me behind all the way. They took me to the privy hole. A rope was tied round my waist by Longthorne. Owen and John Hargreaves were close by at the time. They threw me into the hole, and dragged me backwards and forwards in the hole, by means of the rope. I was got very weak then, and I said, take the rope off me, and hang me, and put me out of this misery. Longthorne helped to move the rope, and slipped it round my neck. Longthorne then pulled the rope, and said, now d—n you, we'll smother you up." John Hargreaves was there, and laid hold of the rope. I received, while he was pulling, one violent blow, on the temple, against the coping stone. Longthorne then brought a ladder, and said, "now we'll make an example of you, we'll carry you about the town." Some one came and said, the master says he has had enough." They then left me. Cross-examined by Dr. Brown, for the defendants—The ground of complaint was, that had taken part of Lord, and Owen's wages. ....'[1]. This was Matthew jr. For more information on the Larmuths, see here.
1837 Death of Eleanor age 69, the wife of Matthew Larmuth, machine maker [2]
Possible father of Thomas Larmuth
Note: Partnership dissolved: Thomas and Matthew Larmuth, Bridport, Dorset, gun smiths.[3].