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Prisoner name: Hannah Etherington. Court and date of trial: Derby Summer Assizes...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/118

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Hannah Etherington. Court and date of trial: Derby Summer Assizes... dating from 1827 Aug - 1829 Jan in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/2/118
Date
1827 Aug - 1829 Jan
Description

Prisoner name: Hannah Etherington.

Court and date of trial: Derby Summer Assizes [Derbyshire] 1827.

Crime: Larceny stealing from the house of Robert Barton of Hilton, Marston upon Dove [Derbyshire] £1 3s 6d.

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Annotated: Nil: not to be sent abroad 14 November 1827. May be sent to Penitentiary April 1828. In due time she will be recommended from the Penitentiary. There seems to be no ground for further mitigation at present [January 1829].

Petitioner(s): Samuel Etherington, the convict's husband of Sudbury, Derbyshire, a glazier, and 95 others.

Grounds for clemency: First offence; 'has a sickly infant at her breast'.

Other papers: A letter from Samuel Etherington seeking a response to the petition. A letter from George Vernon, acting magistrate for the county, reporting that Hannah had been transferred to the penitentiary at Millbank and her conduct there was exemplary; her husband willing to have her back.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
An 18
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13024819/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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