Sarah Bromley

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Ron Garbutt on 19th March 2020

Sarah Bromley's Petition for Leniency. Sarah Bromley per Harmony 1829 - ID B147H ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The humble Petition of SARAH BROMLEY a widow with two infant children and one aged mother solley dependant upon her for support having received sentence of transportation, most earnestly entracts that some commutation of punishment may be extended towards her, this being her first offence, and most solemnly declears she was driven to the confession of the offence by the crying necessities of her children for food - To remain in the Country with the prospect of being once more restored to her afflicted family is an much as she dare venture to salicit, and if this clemency may be ever conceded she will ever remember with gratitude and favour. George Poole - Prosecutor [ ] Watts - Nos 16 and 17 Marquis Court M Smith James Holloway 71 Drury Lane Thomas Vincent 16 White Home Yard Jane Nathan 65 Drury Lane John Coupan 50 Hawthorne Lane James Senior 108 Drury Lane Edward Willout 13 New North Road Islington ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SARAH BROMLEY OLD BAILEY 1828 LARCENY 7 YEARS TRANSPORTATION SOURCE - HOME OFFICE CRIMINAL PETITIONS - SERIES 1 SERIES - HO 17 PIECE - 31 ITEM NUMBER DN 46 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SARAH BROMLEY - AGED 35 OLD BAILEY APRIL SESSIONS - 1828 LARCENY 7 YEARS TRANSPORTATION GAOLERS REPORT - NOT KNOWN HERE https://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/pre-transportation/petitions#Harmony

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Ron Garbutt on 19th March 2020

SARAH BROMLEY. Notes from Her trial Theft: simple larceny. 10th April 1828 Reference Number t18280410-161 Verdict Guilty Sentence Transportation Sarah Bromley b. 1793, 9 records 953. SARAH BROMLEY was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of March , 2 blankets, value 9s.; 2 sheets, value 2s.; 1 pillow, value 4s.; 1 quilt, value 2s.; 1 tablecloth, value 1s., and 1 candlestick, value 6d. , the goods of George Benjamin Poole . MARY POOLE . I am the wife of George Benjamin Poole of Charlotte-street, Somers'-town . I let a back room furnished to the prisoner on the 1st of February. On the 22d of March she dined with me, and when we had done dinner I put some things away; she took the table-cloth and shook it in the ashes, and I saw no more of it; the next morning I could not find it - the prisoner was out, but when she came home I said "Where did you put the table-cloth?" she said "I don't know that I had it;" I said "Yes, you had" she said "I put it on the bed;" I said "No, I have searched the room all over:" she turned the conversation, and I said no more; but on the 25th I went into her room with a constable, and missed a pair of sheets from the bed. WILLIAM CRUSH . I am shopman to a pawnbroker in Clarendon-square. I have two sheets pawned by the prisoner on the 15th of March, and a table-cloth on the 22d.(Property produced and sworn to.) GUILTY . Aged 35. Transported for Seven Years . There was another indictment against the prisoner. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name=18280410