Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): James Brookes (James Brooks). Prisoner age: 21. Prisoner occupation:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/137
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- HO 17/26/137
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1830 Oct 21 - 1831 Jan 27
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Prisoner name(s): James Brookes (James Brooks).
Prisoner age: 21.
Prisoner occupation: Superintendent of a cotton factory.
Court and date of trial: Chester Quarter Sessions held at Knutsford on 19 October 1830.
Crime: Stealing two shawls from Mary Coppock. The prisoner took and pawned two shawls from his lodgings at Stockport, [Cheshire].
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Gaoler's report: 'Character unknown.'
Annotated (Outcome): 'Ordered to hulks.' Nil.
Petitioner(s): Three petitions from George Brooks (prisoner's father) the superintendent of Power Loom Weaving at Stockport, Cheshire, undersigned by 40 people and 21 people including the prosecutrix.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner's prosecution was an attempt by his master to prevent the prisoner testifying against him in five cases of paying his operative in goods instead of money; first offence; father could not afford legal assistance; prisoner was out of work; his character was respectable; prosecutrix did not wish to prosecute; father admits he did not help the situation; family distressed.
Other papers: Character reference for George Brooks undersigned by 28 inhabitants of Stockport, [Cheshire];
W Longson (prisoner's former manager) of Stockport, [Cheshire] explaining the case.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cp 37
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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