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Transportation
James Camm was transported on the Coromandel And Experiment, departing 31st Oct 1803 and arriving 7th May 1804 with 338 passengers.
Coromandel And Experiment (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 351 (175). Tasmanian Archives - convicts http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?detail=1&type=C&id=10360 |
| 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
• The fate of Camm is a singular instance of the certainty with which punishment pursues the guilty even in this world. Having taken a prominent part in the audacious and inhuman piracy of the Cyprus, and escaped to various parts of the globe, Providence yet saw fit to bring him back to the scene of his original offence, that he might render up his miserable life as a sacrifice for his offence. … When on the platform, Camm called out to the spectators below, "good bye old friends". They died almost without a struggle. (Hobart Town Courier 5 May1832, p. 4.)
PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF The Government Brig Cyprus, By Convicts, on their way to the Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour. We last week mentioned that the Cyprus was on her passage to the Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour, conveying 31 prisoners under sentence of transportation to that place ; and having on board a large supply of provisions for the Settlement ; and that the prisoners had mutinied and taken possession of the vessel , and carried her out to sea. … … The following is a list of the prisoners, who captured the Cyprus:— Michael Herring, Robert McGuire, William Templeman, Matthew Pennell, William Watts, James Davis, Samuel Thacker, John Beveridge, Alexander Stevenson, Leslie Ferguson, John Lynch, James Jones, William Swallow (commonly called Walker), Charles Towers, James Cham, Thomas Bryant, John Denner, William Brown. (Colonial Times 4 Sep 1829, p. 3.)
Thomas Padley and James Camm, for breaking open the dwelling-house of Michael Abrahams, in Chatham, with intent to commit a felony.—DEATH.— Reprieved. Kentish Weekly Post, 22 March 1803. ---------------------------------------------------- Sunday morning the following convicts set off in a coach and four, properly guarded and secured, from Maidstone gaol, for Portsmouth, there to be put on board a transport destined to New South Wales, viz. John Smith, Thomas Padley, James Camm, John Wait, George Crouche, John Swan, James Stanton, William Roberts, John n, Edmund Johnson, William Lay, John Burr, James Skuse, William Delton, and Florence Perry. Kentish Weekly Post,6 May 1803.
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD36-1-1p48j2k Marriage in District of Hobart Town 1816. James Cann, age 33, prisoner, per, Coromandel, and Mary Barnett, age 23, prisoner, per Alexander, were married 3 August 1816, by banns. Both signed with their X.
James was buried in St Davids Burial Ground Hobart Town on the day of his execution.
James married Mary Barnett another convict and they had three sons together. William, James and Richard. Mary died in 1827.
James Camm was transferred to VDL in 1814, not 1802. He first arrived in NSW in 1804.
James Camm was transferred to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) from NSW on the 'Active', arriving 1802. Born Nottingham; labourer; aged 36yrs in 1802; blue eyes; dk brown hair; 5'6 1/2". Tried & convicted at Kent in 1802 - Life sentence (crime not recorded in conduct book). 11/08/1815: Assault Mr. Mann - 200 lashes. 06/01/1816: Attempt to rob P. Miller - 50 lashes. Ticket of Leave granted. 05/10/1818: TL/Drunk & disorderly - Fined 5/-. 13/01/1824: Assault & beat wife and J. McKenna - to forfeit Ticket of Leave. 19/06/1826: TL/Bound over to keep the peace towards J. McKenna, for 6mths. 30/06/1826: TL/Drunk & disorderly - reprimand. 06/07/1826: TL/Out after hours - reprimand. 22/09/1826: TL/Absent from Muster & Church - rep. 10/10/1826: TL/Disorderly in street - chg dismissed. 03/02/1827: TL/Beating wife - chg dismissed. 22/10/1828: TL/Endeavour to defraud R. Caldwell of a bag of sugar & 3 pounds and defraud T. C....of 25 pounds - to forfeit Ticket of Leave and labor 12mths in Chain Gang. 29/12/1828: Ch Gang/Abscond at New Norfolk and remain absent until recaptured near Hobart - 50 lashes and returned to Chain Gang. 10/02/1829: Abscond from Ch Gang at New Norfolk - remand before Police Magistrate at New Norfolk. 16/02/1829: To be removed to penal settlement for 3yrs. 01/06/1829: Chain Gang: Breaking the gaol at Deep Gulley with intent to escape - remanded to penal settlement. 29/03/1832: PW/Seising, stealing and carrying away the brig 'Cyprus' from Research Bay. 31/03/1832: Hobart - Death sentence. 30/04/1832: Executed, at Hobart. 30/04/1832: Buried, Hobart.