NAME: Size, Colour of Hair, Complexion, Eyes, Marks (if any) and State of Health.

Benjamin Henderson

5ft 9

Hazel, Brown, Fresh

Birthmark on back of right forearm

Health Good 10/4/76

AGE

28

Married or Single, and No. of Children:

Single

Read or Write and of what Religion

R&W

R.C.

Trade or Profession

Labourer

Convicted - When. Where.

29 July 1875

Wicklow, 

Co Wicklow

(Summer Assizes*)

Specific Description of Crime.

Manslaughter

Sentence

5 Yrs

PS**

Charter received with Prisoner.

Not before, not known here.

(illegible)

Remainder Pending Removal

Very Satisfactory

Name and Address of Friends, &c.

(This appears to be a list of letters passed back and forth - it lists Sam Henderson, Downs, Delgany, Co Wicklow. His father is mentioned. Also a 31 (39) (illegible) Road, Dublin.)

When removed and Whither.

To Mountjoy for Lusk***

23.12.78

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*The courts of assizes or assizes were the higher criminal court in Ireland outside Dublin prior to 1924. Ben would have gone to the court in Wicklow Town not Dublin. They have now been abolished 

** Penal Servitude

*** Lusk was an open prison, in 1874 it held 40 prisoners.