Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Nicholas White. Prisoner age: Nine years. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/27/146
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Nicholas White. Prisoner age: Nine years. Court and date of trial:... dating from 1833 May 23 - 1833 Jun 18 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/27/146
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833 May 23 - 1833 Jun 18
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Nicholas White.
Prisoner age: Nine years.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey, May 1833.
Crime: Housebreaking, namely stealing goods from the shop of Mr Batchelor at Hackney Road [Shoreditch, Middlesex] to the value of two pence.
Initial sentence: Death.
Annotated (Outcome): 'Sentence commuted to a private whipping and seven years transportation'; 'Considered at Report in Council 10 June 1833'.
Petitioner(s): Mary White (widowed mother) undersigned by Thomas Batchelor prosecutor and 10 inhabitants of [Shoreditch].
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): First offence; led astray by evil disposed lads; his mother is poor and obliged to be at work from morning to night.
Other papers: Separate gaoler's letter from Mr Wontner [Governor of Newgate Gaol] stating that the convict is not known to belong to a gang of thieves but has been previously committed to the House of Correction for thefts.
Additional Information: The gaoler's letter also refers to a convict named William Ward.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cs 30
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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