Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Job Holcroft. Prisoner details: Aged 58. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/98/124
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- HO 17/98/124
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1830 May 8 - 1832 Aug 29
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Job Holcroft.
Prisoner details: Aged 58.
Court and date of trial: Chester Quarter Sessions [Cheshire], 1830.
Crime: Receiving two measures of wheat stolen from the premises of Thomas Hardey, Peter Hardey and Henry Hardey of Lymm, Cheshire.
Initial sentence: 14 years transportation.
Gaoler's report: Character bad.
Annotated: Nil.
Petitioner(s): 33 inhabitants of the parish of Lymm, including James Wilde, Bertie E Johnson, rector, and the prosecutors. Thomas, Peter and Henry Hardey of Lymm, the prosecutors.
Grounds for clemency: The prisoner has a wife and eight children to support.
Correspondence: Two letters from James Wilde, Dane Bank, Lymm, Cheshire, endorsing petitions and requesting mitigation of sentence.
Additional Information: The prisoner held on board Cumberland hulk.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- SO 23
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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