| Description | Elizabeth Denham, 14 years old, of St. Luke's, applied for admission two years ago, thro' her mother, has since been ten months in prison; viz four in Newgate and six in the House of Correction, Clerkenwell, for having been in company with Catherine Freer, with whom she says she lived as attended upon her children, when she stole a shawl from a shop in the Strand, for She /Cath Freer/ was Convicted and Transported. Her Aunt came with Petitioner, stating that her husband is a Watchmaker in Pear Tree Street No. 27 without the means of maintaining her, however he may desire to do so; and that it is impossible to recommend her to Service under her present deprivation of Character. She does not think Petitioner has ever been improperly Connected with men. Admitted. |
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