QGR6/113-114

Minutes of the Visiting Justices to the Gaol page 113-114. Includes the following:

6 July 1846

From: 1846 To: 1846

Magistrates: John Harvey, Thomas Tylecote, Charles Moore, Thomas Charles Higgins. 24 prisoners in custody. 21 males 3 females. At this time last year - 14. The Governor reports having placed George Wildman and John Smith in solitary confinement for three days each on bread and water for fighting in the day yard. [William] Dyer the debtor and David Humphreys are still very ill. Eliza Saddler requested to be allowed her wedding ring and her marriage certificate and also to be permitted to see her husband Henry Saddler who is now also in the gaol under sentence of transportation.

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Harvey, John,
Tylecote, Thomas,
Moore, Charles,
Higgins, Charles,
Dyer, William,
Humphreys, David,
Smith, John,
Wildman, George,
Saddler, Eliza,
Saddler, Henry

BEDFORD, Bedford Gaol, County Gaol, House of Correction, imprisonment, magistrate, crime, punishment, Governor, gaoler, surgeon, health, illness, debtor, MARRIAGE, transportation