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Prisoner name: Thomas Keeble and Joseph Keeble. Prisoner age: Thomas aged 16, Joseph...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/94/8

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Thomas Keeble and Joseph Keeble. Prisoner age: Thomas aged 16, Joseph... dating from 1831; 1833 July 30 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/94/8
Date
1831; 1833 July 30
Description

Prisoner name: Thomas Keeble and Joseph Keeble.

Prisoner age: Thomas aged 16, Joseph aged 12.

Court and date of trial: Old Bailey February Sessions 1831.

Crime: Housebreaking.

Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life.

Annotated: Considered at Report in Council 13 April 1831. Nil.

Petitioner(s): John Keeble and Sarah Keeble of Little Sutton Street, Clerkenwell [Middlesex] (the prisoners' parents); two petitions from John Keeble (prisoners' father), a printer, of Catherine Street, Vinegar Ground, City Road (1833).

Grounds for clemency: Very young; first offence; previous good character; good conduct of youngest son onboard the hulk; the convicts' father has heard that the hulk his youngest son is on will shortly be dispensed with and he asks that Joseph be sent to the penitentiary and not overseas.

Additional information: Thomas Keeble was sent to New South Wales in 1831 in the Lord Lynedock convict ship. Joseph Keeble was sent to 'the boys' hulk at Chatham' [Kent].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
RP 8
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12737434/

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