Catalogue description Prisoner name: James Blackford (or James Charles Blackford). Prisoner age: 15 or 17....

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Details of HO 17/41/15
Reference: HO 17/41/15
Description:

Prisoner name: James Blackford (or James Charles Blackford).

Prisoner age: 15 or 17.

Court and date of trial: Old Bailey September Sessions 1831.

Crime: Stealing roll of calico cloth, property of Robert Phillips (or Robert Philps), 51 High Street, Poplar, Middlesex.

Initial sentence: Transportation for life.

Gaoler's report: Here before and convicted.

Annotated: Nil.

Petitioner(s): Richard Blackford, 12 Cock Lane, Shoreditch, [Middlesex], boot and shoe maker, the prisoner's father, and Robert Phillips, the prosecutor, undersigned by 13 residents of Shoreditch and neighbourhood attesting to good character of Richard Blackford. Richard Blackford, 2 Old Cock Lane at back of Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch, the prisoner's father, and Robert Philps, prosecutor.

Grounds for clemency: Prisoner from respectable family of 13 children; of good character until led astray by 'a very bad disposed man' aged 22 who committed the theft and escaped.

Other papers: Letter from James Blackford, prisoner in Newgate to his parents, expressing remorse.

Additional information: Prisoner sent to Sheerness [Kent] to await transportation.

Date: 1831 Sep; 1832 Mar
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FQ15
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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