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1 collective petition (11 people from Ilkestone, Derbyshire, including the prisoner's...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/73/139

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This record is about the 1 collective petition (11 people from Ilkestone, Derbyshire, including the prisoner's... dating from 1831 Feb 14 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/73/139
Date
1831 Feb 14
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1 collective petition (11 people from Ilkestone, Derbyshire, including the prisoner's wife Elizabeth West) on behalf of John West convicted at Nottingham Assizes in March 1826 for a burglary in Stapleford, near Nottingham against Mathey Sheapperd. Grounds for clemency: distress of wife and children who have no support, honest and sober character, first offence, left country in August 1829, now in New South Wales. Initial sentence: life transportation. Annotated: nil, answered 25 February 1831. NP 38

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The National Archives, Kew
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Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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