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Prisoner name(s): Samuel Conolly. Prisoner occupation: Vagrant mender of spectacles....

Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/94

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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Samuel Conolly. Prisoner occupation: Vagrant mender of spectacles.... 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 17/26/94
Date
1829 June 27
Description

Prisoner name(s): Samuel Conolly.

Prisoner occupation: Vagrant mender of spectacles.

Court and date of trial: Durham Lent Assizes in 1829.

Crime: Uttering counterfeit coin. Aapproximately 6/- in January 1829.

Initial sentence: 12 months imprisonment.

Annotated (Outcome): Peel 'declines interfering with the sentence of the Law'.

Other papers: John Cartwright Magistrate for County of Durham, of Norton near Stockton on behalf of the Stockton overseers of the poor and the prisoner's wife with an account of the case.

Letter to John Cartwright from P Frushards the Governor of the Durham county prisons, regarding the prisoner's good conduct in prison.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Co 44
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14456153/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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