Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Samuel Baker was transported on the St Vincent, departing 28th Dec 1852 and arriving 26th May 1853 with 214 passengers.
St Vincent (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/17, Page Number 621 (313) |
| 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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Convict Notes
CON33-1-115 Image 17 No; 27863 Died on Board - 14 May 1853
MEANTIME, Edward Griffiths, while only 19 years old in 1853, had already received two felony and two summary convictions resulting in jail terms of 6 months, 6 months and 7 years' transportation. After being sentenced to 14 years in 1852, he served time at Millbank prison in London, aboard the Stirling Castle hulk at Portsmouth and in Portsmouth jail. On 21 September, 1854, he was transferred and listed to serve yet more time in separate confinement at Pentonville prison (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Edward Griffiths; Portsmouth Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1879-1880). 1 December, 1854: On this date, in Pentonville jail, Edward Griffiths "departed this life" (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Edward Griffiths; Pentonville Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1854-1856). --00--
FOOTNOTE: Of his fellow escapees from Dartmoor, William French, aged 37, and a waiter -- who had been convicted twice previously and transported to Gibraltar -- was given a Licence for Parole on 17 July 1856. Until then, he was held on the Stirling Castle hulk at Portsmouth, prisoner #1438 (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for William French; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1774-1789??).
VOYAGE: From the medical journal of the St Vincent, by Thomas Somerville, Surgeon Superintendent: 19 February, 1853: “ Folio 2: Samuel Baker, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, urticarial [hives/skin rash]; put on sick list, 19 February 1853, discharged duty 28 February 1853.” 12 April, 1853: “Folio 2: Samuel Baker, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, ecthyma [a skin infection characterised by crusted sores beneath which ulcers form]; put on sick list, 12 April 1853, discharged duty 3 May 1853.” 11 May, 1853: “Folio 3: Sam Baker, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, gastritis; put on sick list, 11 May 1853, died 14 May 1853.” Summary: “Folio 15: case no 7, Samuel Baker, aged 20, Convict; taken ill at Sea; sick or hurt, gastritis, since he came on board was under treatment for ecthyma, dyspepsia and diarrhoea. According to the surgeon this patient was one of the men who managed in the confusion attending a very severe gale to cut through the prison deck into the storeroom and abstracted a quantity of rum, after he was discovered with the others of robbery they were put in irons. He now complained of nausea, vomiting and anorexia with little pyrexia [fever] and pain in the epigastrium; put on sick list 11 May 1853, died 14 May 1853 at 6 pm at sea.” (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C4106910) --00--
NEWSPAPER report of the trial: 27 March, 1852: From the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, p3: “Edward Griffiths, Samuel Baker, and William French, escaped Dartmoor convicts… were sentenced, the first to 14 years and the others to fifteen years’ transportation.” (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/) --00--
TRIAL: 17 March, 1852: Tried and convicted at the Castle of Exeter Assizes and sentenced to 15 years’ transportation for “being at large during the period he had been transported” (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for Samuel Baker; England; Devon; 1852). --0--