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VDL Founders and Survivors Convicts 1802-1853, Permissions to Marry Record ID fas_ptm35831 Year of application to marry 1846 Month of application to marry 6 FAS permission to marry reference ID PM04746 App date month June Given name John Surname Isaacs Convict vessel id R0973 Ship Richmond Spouse's given name Mary Ann Spouse's surname Donoway Old Bailey Online JOHN ISAACS. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 12th September 1821. Text type Trial account Defendants JOHN ISAACS Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 12th September 1821 Reference Number t18210912-176 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 1225. JOHN ISAACS was indicted for stealing, on the 21st of August , 9 lbs. of lead, value 18 d., and one sheet, value 2 s. , the goods of Robert Burdett . ROBERT BURDETT . I am a weaver , and live in Phoenix-street ; this lead was in my shop, I use it in my business. On the 22d of August, I was in bed - my wife awoke me I looked out of the window, and saw a man, who asked, if I had authorised any one to take the lead from my house. I went and found it at the watch-house, returned and missed it. I know nothing of the prisoner. FRANCES BURDETT . I am wife of last witness. I went up and missed a sheet off the bed of the top room. ROBERT WILKINSON . I am apprentice to Mr. Burdett. Isaacs came up when I was in bed at my masters - he sent a girl up to call me. I got up and came down; he asked if I could give him a lodging; I said "No;" he said, if I did not, he should be put in the watch-house or something. I agreed to it, and in the morning he got up an hour before me, and awoke me about half-past five o'clock; he asked if I would run away from my uncle; I said, No, I did not want to go. I went down stairs on purpose to get him down; he asked if he might put on my shoes. I said Yes; as they were an old pair, and about four doors from the house he tried the shoes on, and said he could not wear them. He went up again, and brought the sheet down, he said, "Now go away with me." I did not like to go back, and we came away together, and when we got out of the street, he said, he had some lead, and asked me to carry it as it was all falling down in his breeches, and I did. Prisoner. Q. Did you not ask me to fetch you a wh - e - A. No; I did not persuade him to run away with me. FRANCIS MANNOCK . I was officer of the night. About half-past five o'clock in the morning, I left the watch-house to go home, and saw the prisoner, who appeared a suspicious character, with something like a sheet stuck out of his coat, which was buttoned. I asked what he had there? he said it was nothing to me. I said he should not pass till I was satisfied; he then said it was a sheet which he was taking from his mother to his aunt. He could not tell where his mother or aunt lived - I took him and Wilkinson to the watch-house. I found a sheet round the prisoner's body, in his hat a shirt, and in his pocket a dirty cloth - he said the sheet was his aunt's. On Wilkinson, I found 8 lbs. of lead in one pocket, and 1 lb. in the other; he said the prisoner stole it from his master, and after he left gave it him to carry, as he had made up his mind to leave his master. (Property produced and sworn to.) Prisoner's Defence. This lad's uncle came to him at the watch-house and said, "What Bob, you have robbed me six or seven times before, and I shall go to the utmost of the law, and what have you led this young man into it for." ROBERT BURDETT . I never said any such thing. GUILTY . Aged 18. Transported for Seven Years . Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.

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Old Bailey Online ROBERT HALL. Breaking Peace; vagabonding. 6th June 1821. Text type Trial account Defendants ROBERT HALL Offences Breaking Peace > Vagabond Session Date 6th June 1821 Reference Number t18210606-142 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 851. ROBERT HALL was indicted for offending as a rogue and vagabond a third time, having been before twice convicted . MR. LAW conducted the prosecution. MR. WILLIAM STAPLE . I belong to the Clerk of the Peace's office, Westminster; I produce a record of the prisoner's conviction as a rogue and vagabond, before I. E. Conant, Esq. on the 26th of April, 1819, and the record of the Quarter Sessions of the 1st of July, confirming that conviction; he was sentenced to be confined six months. - (read). BANKS ROBERT NODDER . I am Governor of Tothill-fields Bridewell, the prisoner was committed on the 26th of April, 1819, till the Sessions, and then remanded for six months. JOSEPH UNWIN . I come from the clerk of the Peace's office, Middlesex, I produce the record of the conviction of the prisoner as an incorrigible rogue, on the 28th of February, 1820; he was committed to the House of Correction till the Sessions. - (Read) - I also produce the order of the Quarter Sessions confirming the conviction, and ordering him to be imprisoned twelve months, and twice whipped. MR. JOHN STAFFORD . I know the commitment to be Mr. Birnie's hand-writing - he is a Magistrate of Middlesex. MR. WILLIAM ATKINS . I am Governor of the House of Correction; the prisoner was committed to my custody on the 15th day of April, and discharged at the expiration of twelve months, and twice whipped. WILLIAM JEFFERSON . I am an officer. On the 5th of April , between five and six o'clock in the morning, I saw the prisoner coming up Bedford-street, Covent-garden, with another man; he had a basket on his head; I followed them; one went through the market, and the other through the Piazza; I followed the prisoner up James-street, into Great Queen-street, and just as he crossed Wild-street, his companion came up and whistled, and called out Jem; and immediately ran into Drury-lane, the prisoner looked round, did not see me, and went on with the basket on his head; I laid hold of him in King-street, and asked what he had in it; he said nothing; I said, I must see; I pushed him into a public-house, he threw it down, and caught hold of one end of a crow-bar, which was in it, I had the other end, it is a very powerful one, and would open any door in London, it is on an improved principle, and has an extra purchase, I found a small screw driver in the basket, two sacks, and some green baize; he said, if they were mine, I might have them - that he had found them; I asked where, he said, in Piccadilly, and was going to Newgate-market; I said, that was not the right way. THOMAS JONES . I am a constable, and know the prisoner perfectly well; I took him on the first conviction, and was a witness against him; I attended at the second conviction - he is the same man. Prisoner's Defence. I live at Chelsea; I was going to market, and between St. James's-church and the Haymarket, I found the crow and things, and put them in my basket; I was taken in Holborn; it is a conspiracy against me. GUILTY . Aged 20. Transported for Seven Years . Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Common Sergeant.