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Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 208 Send Message	trafiklitedol	Report	15 Jul 2010 15:38
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 208 Send Message	Could some kind person please check the criminal register on Ancestry and advise me what Ellis Moritt's conviction and sentence was. Date of trial March 1876. Thank you
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 7,821 Send Message	Thelma	Report	15 Jul 2010 15:44
	Felonious wounding with intent 5 years penal servitude
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 208 Send Message	trafiklitedol	Report	15 Jul 2010 15:50
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 208 Send Message	Thanks SatNav. Couldn't have been a very nice person receiving that sort of sentence. Once again - Thanks
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,195 Send Message	Joy	Report	15 Jul 2010 18:23
	In those days, one could be transported for stealing a sheep. Times have changed :-)
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 17,958 Send Message	Chris Ho :)	Report	15 Jul 2010 19:00
	To see a few newspaper articles on it, www.lancashire.gov.uk/onrl/premiums.asp A good site to join :-) Chris :)
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 208 Send Message	trafiklitedol	Report	16 Jul 2010 09:14
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 208 Send Message	Thanks Chris Ho Will give it a try.