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Details for the convict Edward Watters (1825)

Convict Name:Edward Watters
Trial Place:York Assizes
Trial Date:20 March 1824
Sentence:Life
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Ship:Medina (2)
Arrival Year:1825
 
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THE CROWN CALENDAR FOR THE YORKSHIRE LENT ASSIZES HOLDEN AT THE CASTLE OF YORK SATURDAY 20TH MARCH 1824......
Edward Dunning, alias Waters, age 31, date of commitment 18th March 1824, charged upon the oaths of William Rymer, now of Richmond, & late of Hunton, in the North-Riding, & others, with having, about a fortnight or three weeks before the 14th of February last past, burglariously & feloniously entered the house of - Hansel, (Baker, Grocer and Draper of Millgate and Marketplace) at Thirsk, in the said Riding, and feloniously stolen, and carried away a quantity of quilts, rabbit skins, & other goods, the property of the said Hansel, of Thirsk aforesaid.
GENERAL GAOL DELIVERY SATURDAY 20TH MARCH 1824
listed under prisoners with ' Judgement of death entered on Record against them & every of them' is "Edward Watters, otherwise called Edward Dunning, otherwise called Edward Dunhill. Found guilty."
Note to the left of the entry states that 'all capital convicts reprieved'. (Reprieve in this instance being the commutation of sentence to transportation for life.
Submitted by Researcher (Alan Birdsall) on 13 August 2016

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Sources

  • The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/5, p.272

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