Statistics Practice Data Set

 

Return of convicts confined in Portland prison, 1849

Name

Age (Years)

Offence

Place of committal

Sentence (years)

James Hackett

21

Felony

Salford

7

John Taylor

20

Stealing a file and monies

Leicester

7

John Brown

20

Larceny (PC)

CC Court

7

James Barker

47

Stealing fowls, two indictments

Exeter

14

William Johnson

25

Setting fire to sacks of straw

Stafford

20

James Sweeney

58

Uttering counterfeit coin (PC)

Caernarvon

15

George Williams

21

Burglary (PC)

Worcester

15

Francis Best

35

Housebreaking, larceny

Worcester

15

John Henry

36

Uttering forged notes

Glasgow

20

Thomas Hartshorn

33

Robbery with violence

Liverpool

15

Samuel Laughton

22

Burglary, stealing silver spoons, etc.

Nottingham

14

Thomas Robinson

23

Burglary and theft, two indictments

Maidstone

14

Martin Stone

22

Horse stealing

Dorchester

15

Richard Ashford

58

Stealing 3lbs of pork

Exeter

10

John Dobson

28

Stealing money from the person (PC)

Stafford

14

Samuel Diggle

36

Burglary

Liverpool

15

George Goult

22

Robbery (PC)

Chelmsford

12

Robert Holder

23

Stealing from a dwelling £15 and pair of pistols

Portsmouth

15

Richard Jones

36

Warehouse breaking, and stealing malt and hops

Reading

15

Hugh King alias Cameron

36

Theft by housebreaking

Glasgow

14

Austin Montroe

34

Larceny in a dwelling to the value £5 (PC)

CC Court

15

Note: PC = previous conviction; CC Court = Central Criminal Court, London.

Source: based on an extract from the Public Record Office, Home Office, 8/102, Public Record Office, Kew.

Source: Hudson, Pat. History by numbers: an introduction to quantitative approaches. London: Arnold, 2000.