Application for relief from female convicts with children

Letter from Dr Edward Trevor, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking determination on issue of female convicts with responsibility for children being transported to New South Wales, Australia: includes note from Trevor on prisoner Catherine Kerwan, whose ‘conduct was violent in the extreme’ and reflects with near thirty years experience of prison life behind him ‘I never Witnessed so depraved and ill conducted wretches as the generality of the female Convicts now in Kilmainham’; includes memorial from Kerwan, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting modification of sentence for crime of larceny on account of having two small children and being pregnant with a third; also includes memorial from Mary Ann Kerwan [Kirwan], Kilmainham Gaol, to Wellesley, seeking permission to serve time at home rather than face transportation on charge of theft from John Rutherford at fair of Manorhamilton, County Leitrim: claims to have a family of ‘4 helpless children’. 4 items; 9pp