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Martha Walter Larceny [stealing] from person & receiving 2 years [imprisonment]
Catherine McIntosh Larceny from person & receiving/After previous conviction 2 years
Look at Source 2:
Two entries from a Home Office Criminal Register (Catalogue ref: HO 27/147)
- How have the women in Source 1 been punished?
- Why do you think the Home Office kept a criminal register?
- How could this type of source be used by historians studying 19th century crime?