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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Prisoner's name: Sarah Inns [Sarah Innes]. Prisoner's age: 20. Prisoner's occupation:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/3/6
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This record is about the Prisoner's name: Sarah Inns [Sarah Innes]. Prisoner's age: 20. Prisoner's occupation:... dating from [1830] in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/3/6
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1830]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner's name: Sarah Inns [Sarah Innes].
Prisoner's age: 20.
Prisoner's occupation: servant.
Court and date of trial: Worcestershire Quarter Sessions January 1830.
Crime: Stealing - a feather bed (a bed and blanket, knives and forks), property of Thomas Smith of Wick.
Initial sentence: 7 years transportation.
Gaoler's report: Character etc good.
Annotated: Case for the penitentiary; free pardon prepared 22 January.
Petitioner: Convict and 8 people including the prosecutor.
Grounds for clemency: Convict's father a respectable labourer with a property of his own; reared a family of 12 children; she had good references; a male servant induced her to perform the crime; she had a baby which died; she is now unfit to be transported.
Other papers: Recommendation for mercy by James Best. A letter from John Nelson Lavender certifying the convict's good behaviour in custody; he would employ her.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- AP 6
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11654740/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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