Researchers who have claimed this convict
There are currently 6 researchers who have claimed James Price
- Researcher (Gary Price)
- Researcher (7433)
- Researcher (Susan Pegrum)
- Researcher (Jennine Brownlee)
- Researcher (Michelle Gibson)
- Researcher (Allan Cresswell)
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Biographies
Born Newington, Surrey 1813 to James Price and Elizabeth Simmonds.
Married Harriet Wood October 8,1832, St Peters, Walworth at age 19
Rope maker, aged 19 at time of sentencing.
Below is quoted report of Surrey Sessions, Friday, Dec.7, 1832
James Price was indicted for stealing 1 cwt. Of rope, the property of Robert Mandeville, an extensive rope and hemp manufacturer, and Edward Rawlings was indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen. The trial excited considerable interest, owing to the hitherto respectable character of the prisoner Rawlings, a man very far advanced in tears and in opulent circumstances.
Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. Jemmett were counsel for the prosecution , and Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Curwood and Mr. Chambers appeared for the defence.
Rawlings put in a long written defence, declaring his innocence of having purchased the stolen property with a guilty knowledge, and that he had through life borne a character free from imputation.
Several witnesses as to previous character stood forward in his behalf, all of whom spoke in the highest terms of him.
The chairman, in summing up the evidence, alluded in the very improper manner in which two policemen had acted with reference to Price, in endeavouring to extort from him a confession of his guilt, with the view of implicating other parties in the offence.
The Jury, after a short consultation, found both the prisoners Guilty, but recommended Rawlings to mercy on account of his age.
The Chairman, in passing sentence, regretted that he had so painful a duty to perform, observing that the Court had uniformly more satisfaction in acquitting than sentencing prisoners to punishment. In this case, however, the Court could make no distinction, and it should not be said that there was one law for the rich and another for the poor there.
The prisoners were then sentenced to be transported for seven years each.
The Chairman said that he should communicate to the Commissioner of Police the conduct exhibited by McCraw and Cummins, the policemen on the trial.
Mr. Clarkson only regretted that the committing magistrate was not present to witness the gross prevarication of the men alluded to.
Transported December, 1832, left wife Harriet and daughter behind. Not exactly a model prisoner. Free Certificate 1839. Remarried Hobart, St. David's Cathedral, 20 July 1840 to Ann Gough, had eight children- Charlotte, Alice, James, William, Frances, Mary, George and John. Died 1876, aged 63, in Ballarat, Victoria
Submitted by Researcher (Gary Price) on 28 June 2016
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/8, p.513
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