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Prisoner name: George Phelps. Prisoner age: 13 or 16 years. Court and date of...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/27/128

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HO 17/27/128
Date
1833 Jun
Description

Prisoner name: George Phelps.

Prisoner age: 13 or 16 years.

Court and date of trial: Surrey Lent Assizes, Kingston-upon-Thames, March 1831.

Crime: Stealing bricks at Hammersmith [Middlesex].

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's report: 'Character etc unknown'. Conduct good on board Euryalus [convict hulk].

Annotated (Outcome): 'Nil'.

Petitioner(s): Thomas Phelps (father), widower and waterman of Putney [Surrey], three applications, the second with an addendum by William Garrow (trial judge) that he recalls nothing of the case but that petitioner should direct himself to the Home Department, and the third with a character appended by Major General W Macleod and E Haswell Royal Navy (former employers of the convict and William Phelps (his brother)).

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): His youth; he is offered an apprenticeship if liberated.

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Former department reference
Cs 12
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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