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Charles Briggs appeared before the magistrates on 10 Jan 1831 and committed to Newgate pending trial. The London Standard reported the committal procedindgs 11 Jan which included -
"Charles Briggs, jun and Charles Briggs, sen, (father and son), weavers, were yesterday brought before the sitting magistrate......"

Charles, sen, was detained for further investigation re possible counterfeiting charges. 

Errington Street ran south from Scotswood Road to the railway line.

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HARD LABOUR
Judge Whitely, K.C, said at the Old Bailey yesterday, that there was no such thing as hard labour nowadays. "The only difference" he added "is that for the first fortnight a man sentenced to hard labour sleeps on a plank bed instead of a mattress. Otherwise imprisonment and hard labour are exactly the same"

(1932 newspaper article)

David Walker was sentenced at the April 1851 Sessions and I have identified 11 other prisoners sentenced to transportation at the same Sessions - eight of whom appear on the '51 Census at Northallerton gaol.

Of the 11 I can only find 2 eventually transported - both aboard the Sir Robert Sippings, 17 March 1852, ("convicted at Northallerton Sessions - (no date)".

The '51 Census was taken on 30th March - does this match the only Quarter that David appears on Northallerton's books?

http://bernardoconnor.org.uk/Coprolites/copnorfolk/Thetford,%20Norfolk.htm

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