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Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Joseph Anderson was transported on the Bangalore, departing 11th Apr 1848 and arriving 14th Jul 1848 with 205 passengers.
Built 1843 at Jersey. Wood barque of 877 Tons.
Bangalore (generic)References
| Primary Source | Aus Joint Copying Project Microfilm Roll 92, Class Piece No.HO11/15, Page No288. -0- Tasmanian Archives http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?detail=1&type=C&id=999. Cornwall Chronicle 8/2/1851. -0- Edgar, W. (2018). “The precarious voyage of her majesty’s convict ship ‘Nile’ to the Swan River colony, late 1857 – and the unexpected aftermath.” The Great Circle, 40(1), 20–43. -0- Bateson, Charles (2004), “The convict ships 1787-1868”, Library of Australian History, Sydney, CD. |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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EMBARKATION FOR BERMUDA 1844, 23 April: He was sent from the York hulk to board the Thames for Bermuda (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1808-1814 [sic], at https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61810/images/61810_pcom2_136-00074). --00-
REFITTING THE THAMES 1844, 8 March: The Thames was at Chatham, according to the Morning Advertiser (p3), where her “fitting for a convict ship for Bermuda [is] drawing fast towards completion. She is ordered to be put out of dock on the 23d instant.” (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18440309/018/0003) 1844, 6 April: “The Thames convict-ship, for Bermuda, was put out of dock at Chatham on Tuesday. She is all ataunt [shipshape, fully rigged], and will be ready to receive her freight of prisoners in a fortnight.” (Morning Herald, p7, at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18440406/002/0001) 1844, 13 April: “The Thames, convict-ship, for Bermuda, Assistant Master Attendant A. Karlev in charge, embarked the remainder of the convicts from the Fortitude hulk, at Chatham, yesterday, and is expected to sail to-day for Portsmouth, where she will tranship her convicts to the hulk at that port, and take 300 others from that establishment for service at Bermuda.” The Thames was at Spithead (a strait of the English Channel, off Portsmouth) on 21 April. (London Evening Standard, p4, at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18440413/031/0004) 1844, 22 April: “The Thames, convict-ship, Master Commander M. Bradshaw, arrived at Portsmouth, on Friday morning, from Chatham, with a number of convicts from Chatham, who, having but a short period of imprisonment to serve, will be landed to work out their time in the hulks at Portsmouth. She will take on board a number sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, and convey them to Bermuda, where the Thames (formerly a 42-gun frigate) will be permanently stationed as a convict-ship. Orders have been sent to Sir Charles Adam, the commander in chief in the West Indies, to break up the Antelope, the present convict-ship in Bermuda, on the arrival of the Thames.” (London Evening Standard, p3, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18440422/024/0003) --00--
1844: York hulk – inmate #1414 Josh. Anderson, 20, “Felony stealing money and a box”; Great Yarmouth, 28 Dec 1843, 7 years; convicted before; born Norfolk, Norwich. Description: light brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, oval visage, stout build, 5’4¾” tall, slightly pockmarked, scar on nose, left arm marked E Smith, mole centre back. Single; reads a little; Church of England; labourer. Family: Father Clement, at Yarmouth, labourer (https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61810/images/61810_pcom2_136-00074). --0--
1844, 27 February: Sent to board the Thames Frigate for Bermuda (https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61805/images/ho24_001_00104). However, the Thames was not ready to receive convicts at this time. The men and boys from Millbank were sent, instead, to the York hulk to await the completion of work on the Thames. --0--
1844, 27 January: Admitted to Millbank Prison, London – Joseph Anderson, inmate #1402, 20; "Felony, stealing money"; Great Yarmouth Sessions, 28 Dec 1843, 7 years; single, reads imperfectly; labourer; “previously convicted of felony, lived in crime about 18 months”(UK, Criminal Records, 1780-1871; Prison Registers and Statistical Returns; 1843-1844; HO 24/1; Millbank; https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61805/images/ho24_001_00104). “After a sentence of transportation was handed down, the prisoner entered into a separate stage where he was placed into an individual cell, isolated from others, apart from brief periods of exercise and attendance at chapel. However, no communication of any kind with other prisoners was permitted at any time. The philosophy behind this penal methodology had its provenances in the religious, monastic traditions; i.e., that in the isolation of his cell the malefactor would be able to contemplate the errors of his way, unadulterated by the negative influences of former contemporaries, and be reformed.” (Edgar, 2018, pp39-40) When first put into practice, the mandated period of separate confinement was 18 months. By the late 1840s, authorities had conceded that such conditions of imprisonment were “injurious to many prisoners’ mental health” and the stint was reduced to 12 months. Periods of separate confinement were reduced further “as a prisoner displayed good behaviour tendencies” (Edgar, p40). Millbank, Pentonville, Wakefield and Mountjoy in Ireland were the “Probation” or “Separate” prisons, as were some local jails. --0--
PRISONS & HULKS 1843-1844, 26 January: Held at Great Yarmouth Borough Gaol and House of Correction, Gaol Street, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/61805/images/ho24_001_00104). --0--
NEWSPAPER REPORT OF TRIAL “Yarmouth, 1 January... At the Quarter Sessions, on Thursday, before Mr. Recorder Palmer, Joseph Anderson was sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing £1/4/5., and a steel tobacco box, from David Wiseman...” (Bury & Norwich Post, 3 January 1844, p3, at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000156/18440103/015/0003). --00--
MORE ABOUT JOSEPH ANDERSON (with dates as per records consulted) TRIAL 1843, 28 December: At Yarmouth Borough Sessions, Joseph Anderson was convicted and sentenced to 7 years’ transportation for “larceny before convicted of felony”; age 20, illiterate (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for Joseph Anderson; England; Norfolk; 1844; at https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/1515356:1590). --0--
Joseph Anderson was convicted at Yarmouth, Norfolk 28/12/1843 of robbing a man of 30/- near Yarmouth. (Previous - stealing a pair of bellows from a yacht - 3mths.) 7 yr Transportation sentence. Joseph was first transported to Bermuda. Joseph departed Bermuda 28/03/1848, arriving Van Diemens Land 28/11/1848. Native Place: Norwich. Occupation - Waterman. 5'6"; sandy hair; blue eyes; ruddy complexion; 25 yrs of age; single man; can read. Protestant. Father: Clement; Mother: M (Mary ?) Brothers: William; John; Clement Sisters: Martha, M (Mary ?) Convict no. 999. Class C. Assignments at Bridgewater, Campbell St. and Macquarie St. Hobart. Ticket of Leave granted. Colonial Offence: 27/12/1848: Larceny (under 5 pounds) - Ticket of Leave revoked. 13/08/1850: Ticket of Leave granted. 01/02/1851: Free Certificate. (ref. Cornwall Chronicle 08/02/1851).