Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Henry Budge. Prisoner age: 19 years. Court and date of trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/52/138
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Henry Budge. Prisoner age: 19 years. Court and date of trial:... dating from 1838 Feb 8 - 1848 Mar 24 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HO 17/52/138
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1838 Feb 8 - 1848 Mar 24
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Prisoner name: Henry Budge.
Prisoner age: 19 years.
Court and date of trial: Cornwall Lent Assizes, Launceston, March 1834.
Crime: Housebreaking. Stealing 'a bundle of worthless clothes or things of trifling value [and] a bottle of spirits'.
Initial sentence: Transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: 'Addicted to [drinking]'.
Annotated (Outcome): In New South Wales, nil, February 1838. 'It appears from the Report that the Convict is unworthy of any indulgence beyond the Ticket of Leave which he holds' March 1848.
Petitioner(s): The prisoner's mother Mary Budge of St Germans, Cornwall. [Tobias Furneaux], Committing Magistrate and clergyman of Devonport [Devon].
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner is young, of previous good character, and was lead astray by an older man; the prisoner is the only child of a widowed-mother; the sentence is severe.
Other papers: Letter from Downing Street forwarding copies of a despatch and enclosures from Sir Charles A Fitzroy, Governor of New South Wales. Letter from the Earl of St Germans forwarding [Furneaux'] petition.
Additional Information: The prisoner held a Ticket of Leave dated 20 February 1845 for the Windsor District, New South Wales. The prisoner was transported on the ship Hooghly 4 which arrived 18 November 1834.
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Hy 43
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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