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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in:...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/87/97

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HO 17/87/97
Date
1824 Nov
Description

Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in: Newgate prison.

Names and details of prisoners:

Sarah Paley, aged 25 [no further details].

Martha Lucas aged 27 convicted in December 1819 and sentenced to 14 years transportation [no further details].

Elizabeth Brown aged 25, wardswoman, convicted April 1820 and sentenced to 14 years transportation [no further details].

[No first name] Edwards, aged 45, wardswoman and nurse convicted September 1820 and sentenced to 14 years transportation [no further details].

Mary Malpas, aged 40, convicted February 1821 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Eleanor Edwards, aged 45, wardswoman, convicted April 1821 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Mary Smith aged 36 convicted in June 1821 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

[No first name] Cartwright, aged 49, convicted July 1821 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Ann Wilson, aged 48, convicted October 1821 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Mary Conerbury, aged 20, convicted in April 1822 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Elizabeth Wilson, aged 28, convicted April 1822 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Sarah Cherry, aged 35, Sarah Wigley, aged 28, and Elizabeth Giles, aged 23, all convicted February 1823 and sentenced to 14 years transportation [no further details].

Mary Ann Stout, aged 22, convicted February 1823 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Maria Healey, aged 26, convicted September 1823 and sentenced to transportation for life [no further details].

Joseph Kayll, aged 26, convicted June 1824 and sentenced to seven years transportation [no further details].

Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): Medical certificate for Mary Conesbury and Elizabeth Wilson by W Box, Surgeon of Newgate.

Annotated (Recommendation Details): Free pardons for Sarah Paley, Martha Lucas, Elizabeth Brown [name crossed out], Mary Malpas, Eleanor Edwards, Mary Conerbury, and Elizabeth Wilson. Elizabeth Brown reduced to seven years.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Qk 47
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16267938/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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