Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Harriet Gilbert. Prisoner age: 18. Court and date of trial: Leicester...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/134
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1828 July 11
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Prisoner name: Harriet Gilbert.
Prisoner age: 18.
Court and date of trial: Leicester Borough Lent Assizes [Leicestershire] 1828.
Crime: Stealing from the person.
Initial sentence: Transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: Unknown.
Annotated: Nil, 17 April 1828.
Petitioner(s): George Hunt of Leicester, warehouseman, uncle and 65 inhabitants of Leicester with four references as to Hunt's character. Charles Abney Hastings MP.
Grounds for clemency: Hunt cared for the convict and her sister as their mother died when she was two; respectable friends; first offence; conduct exemplary on hulk.
Additional Information: On board hulk at Woolwich [Kent].
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- An 34
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- English
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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