The
National Archives are introducing a new "
Discovery" service for searching their records and are asking for people to try out the Beta version and let them know what you think of them, I don't have time to do a complete test but a search for "Hemel Hempstead revealed 1458 records including the following:
Reference: HO 47/6/20
Description:
Report of Alexander Thomson on 1 collective petition (10
people, including John Wheeldon, rector, the churchwardens and overseers of the
poor, from Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire) on behalf of Thomas Smith alias
Cockle, a "little" farmer, of Wheathampstead, convicted at the Hertfordshire
Assizes, for stealing 5 ewe sheep, value £4, and 3 lambs, value 20/-, property
of Thomas Fellows the elder, a farmer at Hemel Hempstead. Evidences supplied by
Thomas Fellows the elder, Thomas Fellows junior, the prosecutor's son; Richard
Gaddesden, Henry Randall, Thomas House and the prisoner. It was claimed that the
stolen property had turned up at Tuddington Fair in December 1786. Mention is
made of Tuddington, Dunstable and Kingsworth. Grounds for clemency: has a wife
and 5 young children, first offence and was a hard worker. Initial sentence:
death. Recommendation: no mercy. Folios 85-89. See also HO 47/6/14 folios
55-56.
Date: 1787 Mar 31
Related Material: See also HO
47/6/14 folios 55-56.
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