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Prisoner name: William Marshall, aged 30. Court and Date of Trial: Chester Quarter...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/257/19

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This record is about the Prisoner name: William Marshall, aged 30. Court and Date of Trial: Chester Quarter... dating from 1849 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 18/257/19
Date
1849
Description

Prisoner name: William Marshall, aged 30.

Court and Date of Trial: Chester Quarter Sessions, Knutsford, April 1848.

Crime: Receiving stolen goods.

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's Report: 'Character bad, convicted before'.

Outcome: 'Nil'. Held in Pentonville Prison [Middlesex] and Portland Prison [Dorset].

Petitions and letters: Petition from 11 inhabitants of Manchester [County Lancaster] known to the prisoner including J Newton (manager for Thomas Houldsworth (MP the prisoner's late employer)) and Hannah Marshall (mother); grounds for clemency cited as his previous good character, he bought the goods without any guilty knowledge.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
257/19
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19756029/

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