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Papers HO 18/225/24.
Catalogue reference: HO 18/236/45
Date: [1848-1849]
Papers HO 18/225/24.
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Prisoner name: George Hume (or George Humes), shipwright. Court and Date of Trial:...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/235/7
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1849 Aug
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Prisoner name: George Hume (or George Humes), shipwright.
Court and Date of Trial: Sunderland Petty Sessions, November 1848.
Crime: Non-payment of 2s 6d per week under order in bastardy for illegitimate child of girl named Lovett.
Initial sentence: Three months imprisonment.
Outcome: '...the remedy was by appeal and it is now lost'.
Petitions and letters: Petition from visiting magistrates of Durham gaol, pleading previous good character and conduct, dependent family, father of child believed to be Thomas Saunders, ship's carpenter, and insufficient evidence.
Letter from committing magistrates giving statement of case and refuting allegations of visiting justices.
Request from magistrates of Sunderland Division of Easington Ward that decision on prisoner's case be suspended.
Letter from justices confirming decision.
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- 235/7
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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