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Prisoner name: Patrick Farns [Farren]. Court and date of trial: Surrey Summer Assizes...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/123/89

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Patrick Farns [Farren]. Court and date of trial: Surrey Summer Assizes... dating from [1830] in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/123/89
Date
[1830]
Description

Prisoner name: Patrick Farns [Farren].

Court and date of trial: Surrey Summer Assizes held at Guildford 1830.

Crime: Stealing a watch.

Initial sentence: Transportation for life.

Gaoler's report: Character bad.

Annotated (Outcome): Nil.

Petitioner(s): Margaret Farren prisoner's wife and seven signatories.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Asks to remain in the country or allow wife to accompany prisoner abroad; prisoner's wife Irish and has no friends here; respectable and honest.

Other papers: Certificate of prisoner's good conduct whilst in military.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Yo 39
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16850802/

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HO 17

Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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