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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: Elizabeth Saunders, aged 39 years. Court and Date of Trial: Somerset...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/251/17
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- HO 18/251/17
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Elizabeth Saunders, aged 39 years.
Court and Date of Trial: Somerset Quarter Sessions adjourned, Wells, 5 July 1847.
Crime: Larceny, by theft of a jacket.
Initial sentence: Ten years transportation.
Gaoler's Report: 'Convicted before'; (for stealing a pair of boots and imprisoned three months with hard labour).
Outcome: 'Free pardon, 12 September 1848'.
Petitions and letters: Certificate of good conduct in prison from [James Gane] (governor of Taunton Gaol, Somerset) and confirming to the Home Office details of the conviction and her previous record; medical certificate of epilepsy and general health impairment from [Henry Lindon] (surgeon to the gaol); petitional letter from Francis Popham and John R Allen (visiting justices to the gaol) enclosing the certificate and recommending the prisoner to clemency on those grounds.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 251/17
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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