| Description | Number: 297
Date of birth: 1853
Place of birth: Manchester
When admitted: 25 Oct 1862
Place of conviction: Manchester General Quarter Sessions
Date of conviction: 6 Oct 1862
Offence: Housebreaking - entering a pawnbrokers shop by the cellar grating and stealing about £8 worth of clothing
Full sentence: 21 days imprisonment 5 years detention
Parents: father George Gomersall, salesman in clothes shop; mother, dead - does not remember her, stepmother Ann nee Shangley, boys' cap maker
Parents address: 1 Moore Street, Sudell Street, Rochdale Road, Manchester
Previous convictions: Once before in prison
Particulars of discharge: 25 Oct 1867
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