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Prisoner name(s): John Dwyer. Prisoner age: 18. Prisoner occupation: Servant....

Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/142

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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): John Dwyer. Prisoner age: 18. Prisoner occupation: Servant.... dating from 1830 Sep 21 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/26/142
Date
1830 Sep 21
Description

Prisoner name(s): John Dwyer.

Prisoner age: 18.

Prisoner occupation: Servant.

Court and date of trial: Old Bailey September Sessions in 1830.

Crime: Burglary. The prisoner broke into the French Chapel in Little George Street, Portman Square, [London].

Initial sentence: [Death] sentence commuted to transportation for life.

Annotated (Outcome): Considered at Report in Council 5 November 1830.

Petitioner(s): Ann Dwyer (prisoner's mother) wife of John Dwyer a labourer of 8 Great Barlow Street, Saint Marylebone, [London] undersigned by 25 people.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The petitioner and her husband have raised and supported a family of five children by honest and hard labour; the prisoner's youth; the prisoner has always maintained a good character and never before committed an offence; the prisoner lived as the servant of Mrs Dawes a respectable fruiterer of Oxford Street, [London] for 22 months.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cp 42
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14456201/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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