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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Prisoner name(s): Alexander Mackay. Prisoner age: 16. Prisoner occupation: Employed...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/61
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Alexander Mackay. Prisoner age: 16. Prisoner occupation: Employed... dating from 1829 June 27 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/26/61
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1829 June 27
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name(s): Alexander Mackay.
Prisoner age: 16.
Prisoner occupation: Employed by Mr Mackenzie of 77 Newgate Street, London.
Court and date of trial: [Union Hall on the 25 June 1829].
Crime: Picking a person's pocket of a handkerchief.
Initial sentence: Committed to the House of Correction at Guildford for two months for attempting to commit felony.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): John Mackay (prisoner's father) of 7 Wood Street North, King Square, Goswell Street Road, [Middlesex].
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner is innocent; the petitioner could have stopped the case against the prisoner by forwarding testimony from respectable persons; the prisoner was an honest employee who was responsible for collecting and receiving considerable amounts of money on behalf of his former employer; the petitioner one only child; for many years the petitioner has been a respectable manufacturer; the prisoner's morals will be corrupted in prison.
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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)
- Co 11
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14456120/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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