Hi everyone

I am looking for a William Lally who was assaulted by my GG Grandfather Charles Collard. Also invovlved was Thomas Kidner. Charles and Thomas were tried and convicted of the assualt at the Somerset Assizis in 1832

A search of the Felons Register of Ilchester Goal states that "Charles Collard a shoemaker aged 21, was convicted at the Assizes 13 August (18)32 of assaulting William Lally and stealing four pairs of stockings from him. He and his accomplice Thomas Kidner, a 17 year old shoemaker, was sentenced to death, but Collard's sentence was commuted to transportation for life, and he was sent to the hulk Discovery at Woolwich on 18 September to await transportation. Kidner was also reprieved and sentenced to two years hard labour. Collard had at least one previous conviction, having been sentenced at the Sessions of 13 July 1829 to a whipping and two months imprisonment in Wilton goal, Taunton for stealing two pairs of shoes."

Has anyone come across this particular William Lally in their investigations

Bill
Brunswick Victoria