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Cornelius Bradnum was transported on the Ramillies, departing 25th Apr 1854 and arriving 7th Aug 1854 with 280 passengers.
757 ton barque ship Ramillies was built at Sunderland in 1845. There only appears to be one voyage to Australia with convict passengers. She carried the thirteenth of 37 shipments of male convicts for Western Australia. The 1854 voyage took 79 days and the Ramillies arrived in Fremantle on August 7, with 94 passengers and 277 convicts (1 death recorded on voyage). (The passengers comprised 30 Pensioner Guards and their families.)
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 79 (41) |
| 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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"Family connection. His brother William was transported to Tasmania for life."
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Convict Notes
POLICE NEWS. FRIDAY. —Cornelius Bradnum was charged with stealing froma garden Common Lane, nine broccoli, six bundles of rhubarb, and fifteen bundles of onions, the property of Joseph Hawes. Police-constable Quen said in consequence of information he had received, watched Common lane, and about 6.15 on Thursday evening he saw the defendant leave the lane with a barrow. Witness followed prisoner and stopped him and asked him what had got the sack which was on the barrow. Prisoner replied only greens. Witness told him had no right to take anything away from the prosecutor's garden, and be should have to take him into custody. Witness afterwards communicated with prosecutor who preferred the charge against prisoner. Prosecutor said was gardener, and hired a garden Common-lane. Prisoner was in his employ, and had been so for about ten months. There was a house on the ground in which prisoner lived, and witness had given him leave to have some articles . from the garden for his own use. Prosecutor had lately missed quantity of the garden produce, and he gave information to the police. He had not given prisoner leave to take anything from the garden except for his own use. Prisoner, who said he had permission to take the vegetables, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. Yarmouth independent, 5 May 1877. Death of Cornelius Morley Bradnum, aged 70, Yarmouth district, March Qr 1898. Source: Freebmd.
The Petty Sessions were held on Wednesday … Cornelius Bradnum, fruit dealer, Kirby Cane, returned convict, was charged by Mr. Charles Abbott Lewin, farmer, Beckingham, with stealing a quantity of bullocks' food and straw, value 3s. The prisoner, who wished to be tried by the magistrates, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Norfolk News, 11 Feb 1865. THE TALE OF A PARDONED CONVICT At Norwich Assizes Cornelius Bradnam has been charged with being at large without lawful excuse before the expiration of his term of transportation. From the statement of the counsel for the prosecution it appeared that the prisoner had been sentenced to transportation for life in the year 1847 for a burglary committed at Mendham, in Norfolk, and at the close of the case the following curious statement,  made by the prisoner when before the Magistrates on the present charge, was read in court : I was transported from here, and went from here to Millbank, and from Millbank to Portsmouth dockyard, from Portsmouth to Gibraltar, (in the Appeline ship) After I had been about four years in Gibraltar,| worked in the Windmill-Sail New Works, I heard four prisoners agree to take the lives of two officers. Three of these men I knew—Conolly, Smith, and Clarke. I don’t remember the other’s name. I told the gangsman of it. He took me to Mr. Strugnall, the quartermaster, and I told him their intentions, and he had a file of soldiers to take them to the Governor. When I went in the evening the Governor called me before him and I gave him the information, and when they were tried, which was on the I believe the Rock, I went and gave evidence against them two were sent back and two were lagged. About two months after that, the Governor called me on deck. I was on board a hulk called the Euryalus. Governor Armstrong told me that in consequence of my good conduct towards the two officers my sentence was mitigated to 15 years. About one or two years after that I was sent to Western When I landed there I went to the Australia, Swan River. Governor’s office,—Governor Kennedy. He gave me my ticket when I arrived there. I served my ticket of leave several years, when I was called into Banbury Court- house. I was ordered by Mr Elliott to give up my ticket of leave to him, and I received from him my free pardon, I left the colony and which was sent up from Fremantle. went to Callao, in Peru. I got a place of work there on shore. One evening when standing on shore I was taken by some fellows and put on board an American ship, the Swallow. I told the captain when I got on board that I was no sailor, and that my clothes and everything were on shore. He said I must obey his orders; he had paid 65 dollars I was brutally used, and crippled on my for my head I was carried out of the passage. We put in at Hamburg. When I got in bed vessel, and put in the hospital. I stated to him how I wrote a letter to the British Consul. was put on board that ship, and brutally used on my passage. {told him that my bed and my chest of clothes were at were at Callao (at my master’s), O'Connor, I think I told him), and I stated in the letter that [ was thrown into the hold of the ship and broke my leg, and asked him to obtain justice against the captain and mate of the ship. The English Consul told me that he could not do that, unless he put the nation to a great expense. On the voyage there was a man murdered on board that ship, and the man was sent to New York hung for it. The English me it was best for me to leave the matter to him, and after I could be removed from the hospital he sent me home and paid my fare in a steamer. I came to England. My pardon was in my chest, and was left with my things at Callao. The prisoner also informed the Court that a letter was written by him to the authorities at Western Australia, but there has not been time to receive an answer. As this statement was part of the case for the prosecution, his Lordship told the jury that it was evidence for the prisoner, on which, if uncontradicted by the prosecution, they might act accordingly ; and the jury acquitted him. Bury Free Press, 12 Aug 1865. (This story was published in a number of different newspapers across the British Isles)
Horse Stealing.—On Sunday evening last, a grey gelding belonging to the executors of the late Mr. Geo. Dams, of Mettingham, was stolen from a marsh in that parish, and on Thursday, the I9th, two lads named William Bradnum (18), and Cornelius Bradnum (16), both of Kirby, were examined before J. J. Bedingfield, Esq. at Bungay, and fully committed to the county and fully committed to the county gaol for trial the assizes. From the evidence of Edwd. Goldsmith, of Southwold, carter, &c. it appears that they offered the horse to him on the morning of Tuesday, for 10£. but he refused to purchase; that in the evening of the same day, being again applied to to make a purchase, he suspecting that had not been honestly obtained, bought it for 3£. and immediately sent for John Parker, the constable, and informed him of his suspicions. The boys were then taken into custody, and the elder brother acknowledged that the horse was stolen. Norwich Mercury, 21 Oct 1843. Wm. Bradmam (18), Cornelius Bradnum (18), Kirby, Norfolk, labourers, for having, on the 16th of Oct., last, stolen at Mettingham, a grey gelding, of the value of 16£, the property of Elisabeth Dains, Geo. Smith, and Samuel Fisher; 3 years’ imprisonment each, and hard labour. Suffolk Chronicle, 6 Jan 1844.
ROBBERIES ON THE NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK BORDERS. -A series of robberies have lately been committed on the South Eastern borders of Norfolk, and on the North Eastern part of Suffolk, which for some time have puzzled the police officers and many other persons, but we rejoice to say the perpetrators have been at length detected and apprehended. So far as we have been able to trace them they seem to have commenced immediately on William Bradnum, and Cornelius Bradnum, being liberated from Ipswich Gaol. Their first effort after their discharge appears to have been in St. Andrew's, in Suffolk, where they broke open a shop, in the occupation of Mr. Sayers, and stole a quantity of wearing apparel. Thence they seem to have visited Ditchingham, Bungay, Berg Apton, Toft Monks, Mundham, and various other places, in one place committing a robbery, and in another disposing of the stolen property. Clothes, drapery, money, and food, all served their purpose, and a number of burglaries committed in one place or another almost every succeeding day brought to light. Their last attempt appears to have been at Harleston, where, on Thursday week, they broke into the shop of Mr. Charles Shepherd, and stole a considerable quantity of clothes Mr. Shepherd being in bed heard them in the house, and called out, but Mrs. Shepherd was so agitated that she begged him to remain quiet, and it was not till two hours afterwards that he ventured below, when he found his shop had been entered and the property stolen. A knowledge of this, and other similar robberies, put the police more than ordinarily on the alert. At first it was conceived that these robberies were committed by thieves from Norwich, but at length a publican where these men lodged conceiving no very high opinion of them, communicated his suspicions to the police. The hint was followed up, and the men were traced to Kessingland, Pakefield, and Lowestoft. In this latter place it was discovered, that with some other person, they had sold various articles of wearing apparel to different individuals. Most of these the police were able to secure, and in a short time they fell in with both the men, besides which other important information was obtained. The clothes were found to be those stolen from Mr. Shepherd, of Harleston, and on being shown to him he at once identified them. The officers now found various traces of the different robberies we have mentioned. At Beccles they secured some of the property stolen from Mr. Sayer's, of St. Andrew's. Officers Earl and Howard went on Sunday last to Kirby Cane, in Norfolk, where they found both the men; Cornelius Bradman being apprehended as he was coming from a chapel with a book in his hand. They were taken before J. L. Bedingfeld, Esq of Ditchingham, where Superintendent Hubbersty, of Loddon, charged them with being concerned in all the above robberies. After a brief examination they were remanded to Norwich Castle, till there was time to complete the necessary evidence. Ipswich Journal, 24 April 1847.
Received his Freedom on arrival in Fremantle. Apparently he notified authorities of a planned mutiny in Gibraltar and was given his freedom as a reward. Returned to England and died in Norfolk.