Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Joseph Limbert 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 625 (315) |
| 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
FOOTNOTE: Joseph Limbert's personal information is missing from both his VDL Conduct Record and his Indents, presumably because he was hospitalised at the time such information was collected by the VDL authorities. This oversight was never corrected, despite his record of a Ticket of Leave and Conditional Pardon. He was listed as convict # 27963.
DEATH: 16 April, 1856: Joseph Limbert [called Lambert], 24 years old and a labourer, died at Hobart General Hospital (https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-5$init=RGD35-1-5p99jpg). --00--
19 September, 1854: Joseph Limbert was granted a Ticket of Leave. 17 July, 1855: He received a Conditional Pardon, having been recommended for same in September 1854 (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p119). --0--
28 June, 1853: His Conduct Record says he was at the Prisoners’ Barracks in Hobart by this time (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p119). 18 October, 1853: He was admitted to the hospital at Impression Bay. Impression Bay Probation Station, built circa 1850, was one of six probation stations operating on the Tasman Peninsula at what is now Premaydena. Under the probation system in VDL, “all convicts were to be subjected to successive stages of punishment, commencing with a period of confinement and labour in gangs: at a penal settlement for life-sentenced prisoners, or at a probation station for all others. If they progressed satisfactorily through several stages of decreasing severity, they received a probation pass and became available for hire to the settlers. Gangs of passholders awaiting employment remained at the stations and continued to labour on public works. Sustained good conduct eventually led to a ticket-of-leave or a pardon. More than eighty probation stations operated in various locations, for varying periods, throughout the settled districts (Sprod, M., 2006, “Probation system” at https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Probation system.htm). --0--
THE VOYAGE TO VDL: From the medical journal of the St Vincent, by Thomas Somerville, Surgeon Superintendent: 10 May, 1853: “Folios 17-18: case no 9, Joseph Limsert [sic], aged 22, Convict; taken ill at Sea; sick or hurt, bronchitis; put on sick list 10 May 1853, sent 31 May 1853 to Military Hospital at Hobart Town (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C4106910). --0-- ARRIVAL: 26 May, 1853: Presumably an ill Joseph Limbert was kept and nursed aboard the St Vincent while other convicts were taken ashore, since the above record states that he wasn’t transferred to the hospital for another five days. --0--
NEWSPAPER report of the trial: 20 October, 1848: “Joseph Limbert (16) pleaded guilty to stealing, on the 18th of September last, at Loughborough, three bottles of barley straw, the property of John Harley Arnett. There being a previous conviction for felony, the prisoner was transported for seven years.” (Nottingham Journal, p8). --0--
TRIAL: 16 October, 1848: Joseph Limbert, 16 and illiterate, was convicted at Leicester and sentenced to transportation for 7 years; he had a previous conviction before the same court only 9 months earlier for larceny, and for which he received a sentence of 3 weeks’ jail (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for Joseph Limbert; England; Leicestershire; 1848). --0--