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Prisoner name: Thomas Wren. Prisoner age: Variously 60 or 63 years. Prisoner...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/27/149

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Thomas Wren. Prisoner age: Variously 60 or 63 years. Prisoner... dating from [1833 Jun] in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/27/149
Date
[1833 Jun]
Description

Prisoner name: Thomas Wren.

Prisoner age: Variously 60 or 63 years.

Prisoner occupation: Butcher, of Wolsingham [County Durham].

Court and date of trial: Durham Lent Assizes, 27 February 1833.

Crime: Sheep-stealing, namely four sheep from Ralph Brownless and Newby Brownless.

Initial sentence: Transportation for life.

Gaoler's report: 'Character etc unknown'.

Annotated (Outcome): 'Ordered to Justitia' [convict hulk]; 'nil'.

Petitioner(s): 103 inhabitants of Wolsingham and Tudhoe [Durham] and their environs.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Previous good character; has respectably brought up a family of seven children; committed the crime through necessity alone; his age.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cs 33
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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