Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Winckley (or John Winchley ). Prisoner age: 30 years. Court and...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/27/148
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1832 Sept 9
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Prisoner name: John Winckley (or John Winchley).
Prisoner age: 30 years.
Court and date of trial: Lincolnshire Lent Assizes, Lincoln, March 1824.
Crime: Horse-stealing.
Initial sentence: [Death recorded and] commuted to 14 years transportation.
Gaoler's report: 'Has carried on extensive depredations in horse-stealing'.
Annotated (Outcome): 'On board Cumberland' [convict hulk].
Petitioner(s): William Bird (uncle).
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): He has served upwards of eight years of his sentence on board, not being sent abroad on account of his good behaviour on the hulk; petitioner offers to stand surety and to provide a bond for £300 against the convict's failure to quit the country within six months of his liberation.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Cs 32
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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