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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: William Doyle. Prisoner age: 16. Prisoner occupation: Employed by...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/120
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- [1834] Jan - 1836 Apr
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Prisoner name: William Doyle.
Prisoner age: 16.
Prisoner occupation: Employed by lace manufacturer.
Court and date of trial: Nottingham Quarter Sessions, January 1834.
Crime: Stealing three pairs of stockings from a shop.
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Gaoler's report: Character bad, Convicted before.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): 13 inhabitants of Nottingham on behalf of Mary Doyle, widow, the prisoner's mother, undersigned by John Spear of Harrington Street, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, the prisoner's former employer.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Youth; ill health (sickly constitution); requests imprisonment in Penitentiary.
Other papers: Letter from Mary Doyle concerning transportation of the prisoner with forwarding letter from Captain J H Knox, Dover, requesting mitigation of sentence.
Additional Information: Prisoner ordered to Fortitude hulk. Transported to New South Wales on ship St John in 1834. In Van Diemen's Land in 1836.
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- Ss 1
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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