Prisoner name: Mary Ann Compton. Prisoner age: 23. Prisoner occupation: Nurse. Court...

Prisoner name: Mary Ann Compton.

Prisoner age: 23.

Prisoner occupation: Nurse.

Court and date of trial: Hampshire Quarter Sessions, Winchester, January 1837.

Crime: Stealing 13 sovereigns from her employer, a labourer's wife, who she was attending during her confinement.

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's report: Character not known.

Annotated (Outcome): Ordered to Penitentiary, 6 May 1837 and 5 October 1838.

Petitioner(s): Edward Knight of Chawton House, Alton, Magistrate for Hampshire.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner is of previous good character; her parents are 'reputable industrious labourers'; she is married and is expecting to be confined shortly with her second child.

Other papers: Letter from Richard Pollen, 6 Old Burlington Street, chairman of the sessions, stating the facts of the case. Letter from Edward Knight, Chawton House, Alton, stating that the previous order to transfer the prisoner to the Penitentiary has not been carried out and she is to be removed from Winchester gaol to The Plenter female convict ship at Woolwich.