Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Joseph Hindmarsh 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 626. --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
A PHOTO FROM PENTONVILLE? 1876: A mug shot from Pentonville prison of a Joseph Hindmarsh, inmate #C894, dated 21 August, could be "our" Joseph Hindmarsh (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Joseph Hindmarsh; Pentonville Prison; Photograph Album; 1847-1849 [mislabelled]). 7 December, 1877: The same Joseph Hindmarsh, #C894, was admitted to Millbank Prison in London from Wormwood Scrubs. From Millbank, he was sent to Chatham, in Kent, on 21 December 1877 (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Joseph Hindmarsh; Millbank Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1875-1886).
JAILS: 14 July, 1857: He was admitted to Millbank prison, London; inmate #5257, aged 30, single and a Protestant. He was semi-literate; next of kin his sister Mrs Davidson at Gateshead. His prison record states he had been transported previously and had received a remittance for "saving an officer's life at Gibraltar". Despite this, his conduct was deemed "not very satisfactory" (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Joseph Hindmarsh; Millbank Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1882-1885??). --0-- 25 March, 1858: He was sent from Millbank to Chatham prison in Kent. --0--
BACK BEFORE THE COURT: 26 June, 1857: Joseph Hindmarsh was again convicted at Newcastle on Tyne, for larceny. His sentence was 4 years' penal servitude (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Joseph Hindmarsh; Millbank Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1882-1885??). --0--
BACK TO ENGLAND: 5 May, 1854: Joseph Hindmarsh was discharged from Gibraltar and sent back to England per the Iberia (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Jos Hindmarsh; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822). 16 May, 1854: The Iberia was at Southampton by the 16th, having sailed from Gibraltar via Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto and Vigo (Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, p5, at https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/). --0--
REJECTED FOR TRANSPORTATION TO VDL: 1853: Although there is no entry about his case in the St Vincent's surgeon's journal, Joseph Hindmarsh never went to VDL. Instead, he was "relanded at Gibraltar being diseased", according to the scant notes in his VDL Conduct Record (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p91). --00-
1851: On arrival at Gibraltar, Joseph Hindmarsh was listed as convict #1811, aged 22, a pitman and single. His probation was to commence on arrival (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Jos Hindmarsh; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822). --0--
AT GIBRALTAR: 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, 2018). --00--
TO GIBRALTAR: 2 August, 1851: From the West Kent Guardian, p3: "WOOLWICH. The Hempsyke, hired convict ship, arrived at moorings, opposite the Royal Arsenal, Sunday last, and after taking in some stores for Malta, her ultimate destination, she will take on board eleven convicts from the Justicia convict ship at Woolwich ..." -- 7 August, 1851: From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, p3: "PORTSMOUTH — Aug. 6: The Hempsyke, convict ship, has arrived Spithead, for the purpose of taking in prisoners from the convict hulks at this port, for conveyance to Gibraltar, for employment on the works at that fortress. She then proceeds to Bermuda." -- 8 August, 1851: From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, p4: PORTSMOUTH—Aug. 7: The Hempsyke convict-ship, Spithead, has taken in 34 prisoners from the hulks in this harbour. She will take in others from Portland, and then proceed Gibraltar." --00--
JAILS: 29 July, 1850: Admitted to Pentonville jail from the Warrior hulk at Woolwich; inmate #3195, 22 years old; family Mary Hindmarsh, Gateshead; semi-literate; a miner; arrived with a "bad" character reference from the hulk. Located in Caledonian Road, London, in 1849 Pentonville became, like Millbank, a place for all male convicts to serve their probationary term (of 9 months), after which they would be transported or sent to a public works prison (https://www.prisonhistory.org/prison/pentonville-prison-2/). --0-- 30 July, 1851: Joseph Hindmarsh was sent from Pentonville to board the ship Hempsyke for Gibraltar (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Joseph Hindmarsh; Pentonville Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1849-1850). --00--
TRIAL: 18 October, 1848: Sentenced to 7 years' transportation at Newcastle on Tyne for larceny from the person; he had a previous conviction for felony and four summary convictions (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951 for Joseph Hindmarsh; Pentonville Prison; Register of Prisoners; 1849-1850). --0--