Researching Charles Hitchen
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2039 people with the Hitchen surname? In that year Hitchen was ranked number 1807 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Charles means "Man, strong" and is of German origin.
Records of Charles Hitchen on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Hitchen and the Hitchen Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 2390 people with the Hitchen surname in the UK? Hitchen is now ranked number 2109 for popularity in the UK. |
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Charles Hitchen
Charles Hitchen, also mentioned as Charles Hitchin in other sources, (c. 1675 – 1727) was a "thief-taker" (private policeman) and under-marshal of the City of London in the early 18th century, also, famously tried for homosexual acts and sodomitical offences. Alongside his former assistant and then a major rival Jonathan Wild, against whom he later published a pamphlet (The Regulator) and contributed to his sentencing to death, Hitchen blackmailed and bribed people and establishments irrespective of their reputation, suspicious or respectable. Despite the disgrace of the people he earned through his abusive exercising of his power, he remained in power and continued fighting against violent crime, especially after the ending of the war of the Spanish Succession and until 1727.
Widely known for his homosexual activities and considerably nicknamed as Madam or Your Ladyship, Hitchen publicly condemned this crime and even raided so called Molly houses being a member of Societies for the Reformation of Manners. However, largely due to his inaccuracy and growing contempt of people he himself appeared the subject of the Justice and was fined, pilloried and imprisoned, dying very soon after leaving Newgate.
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