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Maureen Withey on 1st May 2021

National Archives. Albion 1823. Surgeon’s Medical Journal . ADM 101/1/8B/11823 Folios 5-9: List of 200 convicts embarked on board the ship from HM hulks Leviathan and York, 8 May 1823, (names and details follow), also includes gaoler character references (not recorded below): Folio 5: Samuel Russell, aged 19, convict, trade blacksmith; where born unknown, offence, stealing; date of conviction 11 September 1822, where convicted, Old Bailey. -------------------------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 01 May 2021), September 1822, trial of SAMUEL RUSSELL WILLIAM INGMAN (t18220911-200). SAMUEL RUSSELL, WILLIAM INGMAN, Theft > theft from a specified place, 11th September 1822. 1345. SAMUEL RUSSELL and WILLIAM INGMAN were indicted for stealing, on the 21st of September , one sugar-basin, value 3 l., and one pair of sugar-tongs, value 5 s., the goods of Samuel John Symons Trickey , in his dwelling-house . EDWARD PRICHARD . On the 21st of September, I slept at Mr. Samuel John Symons Trickey 's, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-street . I know his names, as I served my clerkship to him. About twenty-five minutes to eight o'clock in the morning, I came down stairs, and heard the street door gently shut, and about eight o'clock the servant said the silver sugar basin and sugar tongs were gone, which I had seen on the sideboard cupboard the day before. I found them at Bow-street that day, the tongs were then broken into three pieces. Mr. Trickey has had them sixteen years; the street door was locked; there was no keyhole outside. JOHN BOSTON . I am a carriage maker. On Saturday morning the 21st of September, about ten minutes to eight o'clock, I was coming down Charlotte-street, and saw the two prisoners in company, about two hundred yards from Mr. Trickey's house, nearer to George-street. Ingman had a parcel in a blue handkerchief; I followed them into Upper Rathbone-place, and there Ingman turned round and saw me looking at them; they both went into Newman's passage; he there gave the parcel to Russell, who put it in his hat. I immediately seized him, and a gentleman held him while I took Russell, and found the sugar basin in his hat, with sugar in it. I took them to the watch-house, and found two latch keys on Russell. HENRY HOWARD . I am a constable. The prisoners were brought to the watch-house. I found the sugar tongs on Russell, broken in three pieces; one piece was concealed in his waistcoat lining, one in the facing, and the other in the cuff of his coat. JOHN DAVIS . Boston delivered me the basin and two skeleton keys. The prosecutor's initials are on the basin and tongs. (Property produced and sworn to.) INGMAN'S Defence. I met Russell - he asked me the way to Castle-street, Newman-street. I was going that way; and as we went along, he asked me to hold the parcel while he did up his braces. I was going to give it him again, when the man seized me. RUSSELL - GUILTY. INGMAN - GUILTY. Of stealing to the value of 39 s. only . Transported for Seven Years . Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.