Carlisle Patriot, 22 Oct 1825 - Calendar of Prisoners in Carlisle Gaol (2)
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Saturday 22 Oct 1825 (p. 3, col. 4)
A Calendar of the Prisoners in the Gaol and House of Correction at Carlisle, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oct. 18, 1825.
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John WILSON, John SHARP, and Richard PURDOM, capitally convicted at the Summer Assizes, holden Aug. 8, 1825, and judgment of death recorded against them; since reprieved, and adjudged to be transported for the remainder of their natural lives.
Hannah WELLS, tried at the Summer Assizes, and acquitted by the Jury, on the ground of insanity, and ordered to be kept in strict custody until his Majesty's pleasure should be known.
Mary TREMBLE, convicted at the Summer Assizes, 1825, and ordered to be imprisoned three months.
Elizabeth BROWN, committed, Aug. 8, 1825, by the Rev. Rich. MATTHEWS, convicted of refusing to perform an order of bastardy, upon which there are three pounds and nine shillings due to the parish of Kirkbride, to be imprisoned and kept at hard labour for the space of three months.
William WOOD, committed, Aug. 26, 1825, by John LITTLEDALE, Esq. convicted of openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his person, in the High-street, in Whitehaven, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months.
Sarah HIGGINS, committed Aug. 26, 1825, by the Rev. Thomas LOWRY, D. D. and John HEYSHAM, Esq. convicted of having been delivered of a male bastard child, which is yet living, and chargeable to the township of Caldewgate, the parish of St. Mary, Carlisle, to be imprisoned and set to work for six months.
John DALY, committed, Sept. 9, 1825, by Thomas BLAMIRE, Esq. convicted of divers misdemeanors in the service of John FITZSIMMONS, and particularly in having run away and left his service, to be impd. two months.
Robert HARDING, committed Sept. 24, 1825, by the Rev. Walter FLETCHER, convicted of having neglected to perform his work as a weaver, which he had contracted to do, to be imprisoned one month.
Ruth HAWKINS, committed, Sept. 24, 1825, by John HODGSON, Esq. Mayor, convicted of being a disorderly person, for that she, in the year of our Lord 1824, being then actually chargeable to the parish of St. Mary, Carlisle, was removed to the parish of Bowness, and that she hath now returned with child, and therefore again chargeable to the said parish of St. Mary, and hath not produced any certificate owning her to be settled in any other parish, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one calendar month.
George TAYLOR, committed, Sept. 28, 1825, by John HEYSHAM, Esq. for non-performance of an order of bastardy, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months.
Elizabeth FERGUSON, committed, Sept. 29, 1825, by Thomas SCOTT and William HEBSON, Esqs. convicted of having been delivered of a male bastard child, which is yet living, and chargeable to the parish of Penrith, to be imprisoned and set to work for the space of four calendar months.
John MAHON, committed Sept. 29, 1825, charged upon the coroner's inquest with the wilful murder of William BELL.
John DAVIDSON, committed, Oct. 5, 1825, by Wm. HEBSON, Esq. charged with being a deserter from his Majesty's 33d. regiment of foot.
John BRYCE, committed, Oct 5, 1825, by the Rev. Thomas RAMSHAY, convicted of hawking and exposing to sale an unstamped almanack, contrary to the statute in that case made and provided, to be imprisoned one month.
JOHN THOMAS ORRIDGE,
Governor of the Gaol and House of Correction.
By this evening's coach (Friday, Oct 21), John SHARP, Richard PURDOM, John WILSON, John NICHOLSON, David RIDLEY, and William BELL, six of the convicts named in the above calendar, were removed from Carlisle gaol, under care of Mr. ORRIDGE, the governor, on their way to the hulks at Woolwich: the first three are to be transported for their natural lives; NICHOLSON for 14 years; and RIDLEY and BELL for seven years each.