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Prisoner name: Mary Noon. Prisoner age: 60. Court and date of trial: Old Bailey Sessions,...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/139

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Mary Noon. Prisoner age: 60. Court and date of trial: Old Bailey Sessions,... dating from [1834 Jan]-1838 Mar in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/99/139
Date
[1834 Jan]-1838 Mar
Description

Prisoner name: Mary Noon.

Prisoner age: 60.

Court and date of trial: Old Bailey Sessions, November 1833.

Crime: Stealing a bank note for £100 in the dwelling house of Joseph Pearce of 24 New Street, Covent Garden, bootmaker.

Initial sentence: Transportation for life.

Gaoler's report: Character etc not known. Widow, four children.

Annotated (Outcome): Nil. Remission prepared 6 March 1838.

Petitioner(s): Two petitions from the prisoner, the first undersigned by Joseph Pearce, the prosecutor, and Martha, his wife, and 11 inhabitants of Lambeth and district.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Good character; age; prosecutor recommends mercy; ill health (intestinal disease); time already served.

Other papers: Letter from Thomas Stirling, clerk to visiting justices of Middlesex House of Correction, forwarding second petition and surgeon's certificate.

Surgeon's certificate from Henry Wakefield, surgeon to Middlesex House of Correction, confirming prisoner's ill health.

Additional Information: Prisoner the widow of a coach proprietor. Held in Newgate gaol then in House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Ss 20
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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