Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Frances Hawkins (or Fanny Hawkins ). Prisoner details: Aged 21 or...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/98/121
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Frances Hawkins (or Fanny Hawkins ). Prisoner details: Aged 21 or... dating from 1830 April 30 - 1830 May 5 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 17/98/121
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1830 April 30 - 1830 May 5
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Frances Hawkins (or Fanny Hawkins).
Prisoner details: Aged 21 or 22.
Court and date of trial: Leeds Borough Sessions [Yorkshire West Riding] April 1830.
Crime: Larceny of silk from draper's shop in Leeds.
Initial sentence: 14 years transportation.
Gaoler's report: A professed thief of the most abandoned character. Before convicted. Prostitute.
Annotated: Nil.
Petitioner(s): Mary Hawkins, 27 Harper Street, Leeds, the prisoner's mother, undersigned by four merchants of Leeds.
Grounds for clemency: The prisoner was the dupe of a wicked woman who escaped custody; she has helped her mother bring up six children; the petitioner and her husband are from a respectable army family.
Other papers: Certificate from Lieutenant Colonel Arthur H Gordon, late commander of 5th Dragoon Guards, testifying to service of petitioner's husband, Francis Hawkins.
Additional Information: Prisoner held in York Castle.
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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)
- SO 20
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13500227/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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