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Prisoner name: Rebecca Wheeler. Prisoner age: 16. Court and date of trial: Berkshire...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/182

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Rebecca Wheeler. Prisoner age: 16. Court and date of trial: Berkshire... dating from 1829 Apr - 1829 May in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/2/182
Date
1829 Apr - 1829 May
Description

Prisoner name: Rebecca Wheeler.

Prisoner age: 16.

Court and date of trial: Berkshire Lent Assizes at Reading 1829.

Crime: Stealing a watch from the person of Mr Knight.

Initial sentence: Seven years' transportation.

Gaoler's report: Character very bad - single.

Annotated: Nil.

Petitioner(s): Ann Clark, the convict's mother, from Bristol [Gloucestershire], with five others.

Grounds for clemency: Her youth; led astray by 'bad company'; she was intoxicated; she is not 'incorrigible'.

Other papers: R Hart Davies transferring the petition.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Ao 32
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13024883/

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HO 17

Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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