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Prisoner name: Henry Lowes or Henry Lewis, aged 21. Court and Date of Trial: Lincoln...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/130/29
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Henry Lowes or Henry Lewis, aged 21. Court and Date of Trial: Lincoln... dating from 1844 May in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HO 18/130/29
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1844 May
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Prisoner name: Henry Lowes or Henry Lewis, aged 21.
Court and Date of Trial: Lincoln Quarter Sessions, Louth, October 1839.
Crime: Larceny.
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Outcome: Discharged, 30 May 1844.
Petitions and letters: Petition from Thomas Lowiss of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, cooper, the prisoner's father, pleading that prisoner will be employed if released.
Report from Bethlem Hospital confirming prisoner's sanity and good conduct.
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130/29
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- Topics
- Mental illness
- Transportation
- Crime
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HO 18
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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Prisoner name: Henry Lowes or Henry Lewis, aged 21. Court and Date of Trial: Lincoln...
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