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Crime
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Transportation
John Hampton 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 620. --0-- Roscoe, Katy (2018), “Convicts and the Sea: the naval influence on Gibraltar Convict Establishment” at https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/ |
| 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
OTHER: 13 December, 1853: He was issued with a Ticket of Leave. 15 January, 1856: JOHN HAMPTON received a Conditional Pardon (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p84). --00--
IN VDL: 26 May, 1853: On arrival in VDL, JOHN HAMPTON was listed as convict #27929; a farm labourer, able to plough and milk; 48 years old, 5’6¾” tall with dark brown hair, grey eyes and a dark complexion. He was single, Protestant and literate. Native place: Brixton (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-96p84). He said he had been transported for stealing 5 ducks at Knutsford; he had previously been convicted for stealing geese (6 months’ jail), lead (12 months) and a dog (3 months). Family: Mother Jane (at Manchester); brothers Thomas (at Manchester), William, James (transported to VDL about 11 years ago); sisters Jane (at Manchester), Sarah (at Manchester), Mary and Martha (at his native place) (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai29722. --0--
On Gibraltar, JOHN HAMPTON was described as 45 years old, sentenced to 10 years for “larceny – stealing fowls” and “thrice imprisoned for felony”; born in Cheshire; Church of England; dark brown hair, grey eyes and sallow complexion, 5’7”tall; semi-literate; labourer; single; relatives/family – mother at Manchester (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). -- 3 February, 1853: He was sent aboard the St Vincent for transportation to VDL. --00--
Gibraltar and Bermuda were listed public works stations (and the second stage in the penal process). On Gibraltar, as “convicts worked together with free men on the dockyards, lines between them became blurred. Convicts, like seamen, were ‘easily recognised’ by ‘their swarthy, weather beaten complexions…[and] muscular well-knit frames’. The discipline on the penal settlement was also influenced by the naval department, who superintended part of the works. In the 1840s, for example, convicts were provided ‘a half gill of rum’ at 11am and 5pm, which they drank from a trough. This mirrored the daily allowance of diluted rum, known as grog, to Royal Naval seamen in the Victorian era. Convicts were also allowed to use part of their earnings, to buy goods, usually tobacco, which they were allowed to smoke in the evening in the barracks. Though official correspondence cited health reasons for grog allowance, it seems likely that the convict authorities feared insubordination if they were banned from drinking and smoking, which were provided to the sappers and dockyard workers whom they worked alongside… In 1854, the acting overseer stated that “half of the offences were committed when the men were excited by rum”. For more serious offences, convicts were flogged with a ‘cat o’nine tails’ whip against the ‘flogging mast’, and during an investigation Dr William Baly concluded that the whip which was used was an old naval cat, which was ‘much heavier than any now used in the government prison and hulks at home, or in the army.’” (Roscoe, Katy (2018), “Convicts and the Sea: the naval influence on Gibraltar Convict Establishment” at https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/). --0--
TO GIBRALTAR: 7 November, 1849: HAMPTON, JOHN #1370, arrived on Gibraltar from England (Pentonville jail) per Hercules. He was held on the Europa hulk (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --0--
JAIL: 2 October, 1848: John Hampton was sent from Millbank prison and admitted to Pentonville prison, London; inmate #1904. Marital Status: Single Criminal Admission Age: 44 Birth Date: abt 1804 Birth Place: Breaton, Cheshire Occupation: Mason's Laborer Criminal Charge: Stealing Sentence: 10 Years Father: Thomas Hampton (dead) Source Description: Pentonville Prison, Middlesex: Register of Prisoners (UK Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Pentonville Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1847-1849). --00--
TRIAL: 26 June, 1848: John Hampton was convicted at Nether Knutsford and sentenced to 10 years’ transportation for “larceny, before convicted of felony” (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for John Hampton; England; Cheshire; 1848). --0--