QGR4/322

Minute Book of the Visiting Justices' weekly meetings [second Volume]. Contains information on prisoners' numbers, health, and conduct, officers' conduct, contracts for supplies, those awaiting transportation, etc. Page 322 includes the following:

27 August 1832

From: 1832 To: 1832

Philip Hunt, George P Livius Mr Warner, Gaoler, having expressed his desire to the reverend Dr Moore at the last weekly meeting to visit his wife at Swansea where she is residing for the benefit of her health, which has long been bad, leave was given for Mr Warner to be absent from the Gaol for [blank] weeks. By an entry in the Gaolers journal it appears that he set out on his journey on the 23rd AUgust, taking with him the convicts to Woolwich who were under sentence of transportation.

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Hunt, Philip,
Livius, George P,
Warner,
Lankin, James,
Lines, Joseph

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