33054-002044

33/1225 13 February 1833

To His Excellency. Major General Richard Bourke, Governor in Chief of New South Wales,

The Petition of Robert Holmes, per Ship "Hadlow", 1820, Life, now under sentence of seven years transportation, at Moreton Bay.

Most humbly sheweth

That your Petitioner was sentenced at the Supreme Court, Sydney, on the 28th May, 1828, for larceny from a hut, when Mr Justice Stephen, before whom be was tried, told him, there were doubts in his case, of which he should receive the advantage.

That your Petitioner, since that period has indeavoured to conduct himself with propriety. and has held the situation of Constable on this settlement for the last nineteen months: _ he earnestly entreats your Excellency to suffer his return to Head quarters in consequence of these circumstances, and the accompanying attestation.

And your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Robert Holmes.

Moreton Bay 28th January, 1833.

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No.	Name	Ship	Trade	Original Conviction ... (Where)	(When)	(Sentence)	[Colonial Conviction] ... (By whom)	(Where)
1430	Rob't Holmes	Hadlow (2)	Laborer	Limerick City	Summer 1819	Life	Crim: C't	Sydney

The Petitioner has held the situation of Constable for the las[t] ... [continued on next page] ... Mr Justice Stephen may have told him, I cannot consider him ... [continued on next page] ... Sentence, than that which he will obtain by continuing to discharge ... [continued on next page] ...

Moreton Bay

3rd Feb'y 1833 }

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[Name]	Colonial Conviction ... (By whom)	(Where)	(When)		(Offence)	(Sentence)	Remarks
[Rob't Holmes]	Crim: C't	Sydney	28 May 1828	House	robbery	Seven Years

[continued from previous page] ... Constable for the last nineteen months as stated, but in ignorance of what ... [from previous page] ... [can]not consider him, as entitled to expect any further mitigation of his ... [from previous page] ... [contin]uing to discharge the duties of his present situation correctly

[signed, on right] J.O. Clunie

[on right] Capt'n 17th Reg't

[on right] Com'd't

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Moreton Bay

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The humble Petition

of Robert Holmes

praying for removal

1 February 1833

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To

His Excellency

Major General Bourke

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Petition of

..............R't Holmes

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