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Transportation
Isaac Hudson was transported on the Nile, departing 18th Sep 1857 and arriving 1st Jan 1858 with 271 passengers.
Nile (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 93, Class and Piece Number HO11/18, Page Number 249 (126). --0-- Edgar, W. (Bill). (2018). “The precarious voyage of her majesty’s convict ship ‘Nile’ to the Swan River colony, late 1857 – and the unexpected aftermath.” The Great Circle, 40(1), 20–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26783779 |
| 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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FOOTNOTE: "'The Times', July 14, 1856, p11: NORTHERN CIRCUIT, YORK, July 11 Civil Court - Before Mr Justice WILLES Isaac Hudson, 27, and Joseph Hawley, 23, were charged with having, on the 4th May, at Sheffield, robbed John Warren of £11 5s. in money, a silk handkerchief, and a pocket book, the property of John Warren and Joseph Hopkins Davy. Mr Dearsley appeared for the prosecution; and Mr Campbell Foster for the prisoner Hawley. The prosecutor, Mr Warren, it appeared, resides in Lansdowne Street Sheffield, and is an assistant to Mr Davy, a grocer, who has two shops, one in Glossop Road and the other in Tippet Lane. He was the manager of the latter shop and on the night of Saturday 4th May, about half-past 12 o’clock, he left the shop in Trippet Lane to take some money to the other shop, where his employer resides. Warren had in his possession £6 in gold £5 2s. 6d. in silver, and half a crown in copper. As he was approaching his employer’s house, in Glossop Road, he saw four men together, and two other men on the opposite side of the road. Two of the men went up to him, and the prisoner Hudson seized him by the throat. Another man, who Warren was satisfied was the prisoner Hawley, struck him behind. Considerable violence was used towards the prosecutor, and after the robbery had been effected, he saw six or seven men running away. Upon his description the prisoners were apprehended, and in possession of each was found a coin which was sworn to as having formed part of the money stolen from the prosecutor. In addition to this, the latter was better enabled to identify the prisoner Hudson from his having, at 10 o’clock on the night of the robbery, gone to the shop of Mr Davy in Trippet Lane, and purchased some raisins. The two prisoners were also sworn to have been seen repeatedly in company together. On cross-examination of the prosecutor by the learned counsel for the prisoner Hawley, it was elicited that the prosecutor only knew him from his general appearance and dress; and on going into particulars his dress was described to be the ordinary dress of most men in Sheffield, and his general appearance that of a short thick-set, dark man - a style of man by no means uncommon in that locality. His LORDSHIP was of the opinion that no case on this evidence, was made out against the prisoner Hawley, and having summed up the evidence against the prisoner Hudson, the jury found him Guilty, and, a previous conviction having been proved against him, he was sentenced to penal servitude for eight years." (From http://www.perthdps.com/convicts/con-wa21.html)
REGISTRATION OF DEATH: Hudson, Isaac, Male, Registered in the District of Plantagenet, Reg No.4, in 1910 (https://bdm.justice.wa.gov.au/) --00--
From the Toodyay Convicts database: Hudson, Isaac (1831-1909) 4742 1858-01-01 Nile CWA: Mar; tableknife cutler; Toodyay, Perth, York, Northam, lab. To SA 1882-01-31, returned 1887-08-10; to London 1895-03-23. Ancestry: WA Convict records: Receipts and discharges book (1855-1859): p. 579: 1859 June 25: 4 prisoners transferred to the Avon Road Party: 4742 Isaac Hudson. BDWA: Worked at Northam and Esperance as shepherd and served three generations of Dempsters. Trove: 1910: Notice by Curator of Intestate Estates, Gervase Clifton, of intestate estates placed under his management in February 1909: Hudson, Isaac, Esperance, date of death, 27.7.1909; personalty of £13 (https://www.toodyay.wa.gov.au/). --0--
IN WA: From his Fremantle jail record: HUDSON, Isaac; #4742, arrived 1 Jan 1858 per Nile Date of Birth: 1831 Marital Status: Married Occupation: Table knife cutler Literacy: Illiterate Sentence Place: York, Yorkshire, England Crime: Robbery Sentence Period: 8 years penal servitude Previous Convictions: Yes Ticket of Leave Date: 17 Oct 1860 Conditional Pardon Date: 2 Jan 1864 Comments: To South Australia, 31 Jan 1882, returned to Western Australia, 10 Aug 1887, to London, 23 Mar 1895 [How so, when holding a Conditional Pardon, not a Free Pardon?] --00--
September, 1857: He was sent to board the Nile for transportation to WA, listed as #13/1181; behaviour “good” at Chatham (Western Australia, Australia, Convict Records, 1846-1930; Convict Department, Registers; Convicts Transported Per Nile (R32)). —00—
16 July, 1857: He was admitted to Chatham in Kent; inmate #1181. Chatham, Portland, Portsmouth and Spike Island in Ireland were listed public works stations and the second stage in the penal process. After separate confinement, prisoners were “placed on work parties at various locations, most commonly naval stations, where maintenance of facilities was vital for the effective protection of Britain’s far flung commercial and military influences around the world. While there, attitude and behaviour were monitored closely. In theory, only after consistently positive reports was a prisoner moved on to the third stage of his incarceration — transportation.” (Edgar, p40) —0—
JAIL: 1856: After his trial, Isaac Hudson was returned to Wakefield where he served 9 months 29 days in separate confinement and his behaviour was "very good". “After a sentence of transportation was handed down, the prisoner entered into a separate stage where he was placed into an individual cell, isolated from others, apart from brief periods of exercise and attendance at chapel. However, no communication of any kind with other prisoners was permitted at any time. The philosophy behind this penal methodology had its provenances in the religious, monastic traditions; i.e., that in the isolation of his cell the malefactor would be able to contemplate the errors of his way, unadulterated by the negative influences of former contemporaries, and be reformed.” (Edgar, 2018, pp39-40) When first put into practice, the mandated period of separate confinement was 18 months. By the late 1840s, authorities had conceded that such conditions of imprisonment were “injurious to many prisoners’ mental health” and the stint was reduced to 12 months. Periods of separate confinement were reduced further “as a prisoner displayed good behaviour tendencies” (Edgar, p40). Millbank, Wakefield, Pentonville and Mountjoy in Ireland were the “Probation” or “Separate” prisons, as were some local jails. --0--
TRIAL: 9 July 1856: At the York Assizes at York Castle, Isaac Hudson was convicted and sentenced to 8 years' penal servitude for "robbery together with another and attended with personal violence after a previous conviction of felony" (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892; England; Yorkshire - North Riding to 1858). -- From the Sheffield Independent, and Leeds Intelligencer, 12 July 1856, p8: "ROBBERY AT SHEFFIELD. ISAAC HUDSON, 27, a cutler, and JOSEPH HAWLEY, 23, a striker, were indicted for robbing John Warren, at Sheffield, the 4th of May last, of money, belonging to himself and Joseph Hopkins Davy, at the same time using personal violence towards John Warren... Joseph Hawley was acquitted." --00--
JAIL: 9 May, 1856: #4246 Isaac Hudson was admitted to Wakefield gaol to await trial for "feloniously assaulting and stealing money at Sheffield" with #4247 Joseph Hawley. He was 27, able to read only, a table knife hafter, born and living in Sheffield. He had sandy hair, grey eyes a fresh complexion and a slender build. Both men were removed to York Castle on 9 July, 1856 (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Wakefield Gaol; Registers of Prisoners; Undated). --0--
PREVIOUS CONVICTION: 6 July 1855: Isaac Hudson, 26, a table knife hafter, was found guilty at the Rotherham Sessions of stealing 1400 knife handles, the property of Robert Marsden, from his warehouse at Sheffield on 31 May 1855. He was sentenced to 6 months' jail with hard labour in the House of Correction at Wakefield (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Wakefield Gaol; Calendar of Trials to 1886). --0--