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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Prisoner name: William Rose. Prisoner age: 32 years. Prisoner occupation: Farm...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/27/132
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833 Jun
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Prisoner name: William Rose.
Prisoner age: 32 years.
Prisoner occupation: Farm labourer to Edward Harvey of Little Wigborough [Essex].
Court and date of trial: Essex Quarter Sessions, Chelmsford, 9 April 1833.
Crime: Stealing a sack of barley or wheat from Mr Gardner of Tollesbury [Essex] in 1833.
Initial sentence: 14 years transportation.
Gaoler's report: 'Character etc unknown'.
Annotated (Outcome): 'Ordered to Cumberland' [convict hulk]. 'Ordered to Penitentiary, 12 June 1833'.
Petitioner(s): William Lawrence (Mayor of Maldon [Essex]) on behalf of inhabitants of that town, undersigned by Edward Harvey (employer) and supported by a certificate from James Digby Junior of Birch [Essex] (the miller who ground the cereal), that it was not wheat as sworn to by the prosecutor but gleanings of corn.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Previous good character; the stolen cereal was wrongly identified; none of the defence evidence was brought before the court; he has offers of employment if liberated; his wife is in a wretched state of mind.
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- Cs 16
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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