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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: George Wilson. Prisoner age: 23. Prisoner occupation: Inn keeper and...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/130/134
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HO 17/130/134
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1836 Aug-1861 Aug
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Prisoner name: George Wilson.
Prisoner age: 23.
Prisoner occupation: Inn keeper and spirit merchant.
Court and date of trial: Northumberland Summer Assizes, July 1836.
Crime: Forgery of bill of exchange for £45 to defraud Sir Matthew White Ridley and Co, bankers in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Initial sentence: Six months imprisonment and transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): Free pardon, 13 August 1861.
Petitioner(s): Two petitions from the prisoner, the first undersigned by 26 inhabitants of Hexham and endorsed 'numerous signatures detached'; the second undersigned by 103 inhabitants of Hexham.
Mary Wilson of Hexham, the prisoner's wife.
43 inhabitants of Hexham.
Esther Wilson Of Hexham, widow, the prisoner's mother, undersigned by 43 inhabitants of Hexham.
170 inhabitants of Hexham.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Jury recommended mercy; family dependent on his earnings; youth; good character; sentence severe for crime; good conduct in New South Wales.
Other papers: Letter from T W Beaumont, Bretton Hall, forwarding first petition.
Letter from Anthony Charlton of Morpeth forwarding second petition.
Letter from J G Coleridge, trial judge, reporting on case and finding no grounds for mitigation of sentence.
Letter from Edward Welford of 28 John Street, Bedford Row, forwarding petition from residents of Hexham.
Letter from Savile C H Ogle of 20 Pall Mall, forwarding petition from Esther Wilson.
Certificate from J H Scott Durbin, former commissioner of Crown Lands and officer in charge of Gold Fields, Liverpool Plains District, New South Wales, testifying to the prisoner's good conduct while in his service.
Letter from Anthony Charlton of Morpeth forwarding sixth petition.
Letter from M A Pearson of Bush Inn, Hexham, the prisoner's daughter, asking if her father will receive free passage to England. Endorsed: 'No - I should think not - he is not pardoned on the ground of innocence'.
Additional Information: Prisoner from Hexham. Held in Morpeth House of Correction then on hulks at Woolwich. Transported to Sydney, New South Wales. Prisoner's wife died on 1 June 1839 aged 24.
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Zw 7
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