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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Prisoner name: Robert Mason. Prisoner age: 32. Prisoner occupation: Builder. Court...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/114/80
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Robert Mason. Prisoner age: 32. Prisoner occupation: Builder. Court... dating from 1833 - 1861 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HO 17/114/80
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1833 - 1861
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Prisoner name: Robert Mason.
Prisoner age: 32.
Prisoner occupation: Builder.
Court and date of trial: Kent Lent Assizes March 1833.
Crime: Forgery of a bill drawn on William Calvert, prosecutor Mr Bennett.
Initial sentence: Transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: Character not known, married one child.
Annotated (Outcome): Ordered to Retribution.
Petitioner(s): Two petitions from the convict one with 44 people of Great Yarmouth and one with 21 people of Woolwich; William Barth; G Rumble; Mary Ann Mason, wife; Mr Attwood; R H Mason, son.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Good character; poverty; not a large sum involved; he was duped; good conduct on hulks; first offence; exemplary conduct in the Colony; has served 30 years; is now old.
Other papers: Note from William Barth; Lord Lyndhurst (the Judge) on his verdict; note from Retribution enquiring whether convict is to be kept in the country; statement of the circumstances under which Mason was transported; letter from John Young enclosing letter from the Inspector of Police; J McClerie stating that Mason was convicted of forgery of a pardon in 1842 and sent to Norfolk Island; Frederic Rogers enclosing documents: death certificate from F Gore Browne; letter from J M Darvall, Stipendiary Magistrate at Bothwell Tasmania; W Nairn Comptroller enclosing the above; letter from R H Mason, son enquiring how to contact the widow.
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Wr 15
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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