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Prisoner Name: Robert Heap. Court and Date of Trial: 22 March 1850. Crime: Neglecting...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/275/48

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HO 18/275/48
Date
1850
Description

Prisoner Name: Robert Heap.

Court and Date of Trial: 22 March 1850.

Crime: Neglecting to maintain his wife and child.

Initial Sentence: ‘Committed to three months in House of Correction, under the Vagrant Act’.

Outcome: Discharge.

Petitions and letters: Letter from William Plant Woodcock, clerk to Bury Union, Lancashire stating that as the expenses incurred by Robert Heap have now been repaid by his friends, he requests that the prisoner be discharged from the House of Correction, Salford.

Report dated 7 May 1850, from the Governor of New Bailey prison, Salford, acknowledging receipt of the Free Pardon, and confirming that he has discharged the prisoner.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
275/48
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Public Record(s)
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