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Transportation
Peter Langan 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 634. --0-- https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C4106910 |
| 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: 10 January, 1854: He was granted a Ticket of Leave. Revoked, then reinstated before end of year. 28 August, 1855: He received a Conditional Pardon. -- A notation on his record says an inquiry was received about him in 1870 from Michael Langan, of 46 Westminster Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. --00--
IN VDL: 26 May, 1853: On arrival in VDL, PETER LANGAN, convict #27966, was listed as a coachman and groom [another career change]; 30 years old, 5’5¾” tall with dark brown hair, grey eyes and a fair complexion. He was married, Presbyterian and literate. Native place: Paisley. He said he had been transported for “assault and robbery, stealing a watch and £15, prosecutor at Gourock”; previous conviction 7 days for rent. Gibraltar report – “good, but artful” (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p112). Family: Wife Barbara (at Edinburgh); mother Rose; brothers Daniel, Ennis and Michael; sisters Rose and Frances at Dublin (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai41256). --0--
VOYAGE: From the medical journal of the St Vincent, by Thomas Somerville, Surgeon Superintendent, Folio 3: 19 May, 1853: Peter Langlands [sic], aged 29, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 19 May 1853, discharged duty 20 May 1853 (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C4106910). --00--
3 February, 1853: Sent aboard the St Vincent for transportation to VDL. --00--
On Gibraltar, PETER LANGAN was described as 25 years old, sentenced to 15 years for robbery; good, one prior conviction; born in Paisley, Scotland; Church of England; dark brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair complexion, 5’7” tall; literate; labourer, 71st Regiment; married, 2 children; relatives/family – at Edinburgh (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --
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/). --
TO GIBRALTAR: 25 January, 1849: LANGAN, PETER #1306, arrived on Gibraltar from the Stirling Castle hulk at Portsmouth per Appoline. He was held on the Europa hulk (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --
TRIAL: 18 March, 1847: Trial papers relating to Alexander Welsh and Peter Langan for the crime of robbery at Baron Grant's Close, Netherbow, High Street, Edinburgh. Tried at High Court, Edinburgh (JC26/1847/590). Accused: Alexander Welsh, Verdict: Guilty, Sentence: Transportation - 10 years. Note: Diet continued JC8/53, f.94v. Pannel cannot write. Accused: Peter Langan, Verdict: Guilty, Sentence: Transportation - 10 years. Note: Diet continued JC8/53, f.94v. (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/). --00--
PRECOGNITION: 1847: Precognition against Alexander Welsh, Peter Langan, Georgina Munro, William Tulloch, James Carmichael and Eliza Ann Clark for the crime of robbery at Baron Grant's Close, Netherbow, High Street, Edinburgh. Accused: Alexander Welsh, Age: 25, flesher, Address: Canongate, Edinburgh Accused: Peter Langan, Age: 22, spirit dealer, Address: Carrubbers Close, High Street, Edinburgh Accused: Georgina Munro, Address: [Edinburgh?] Accused: William Tulloch, alias Gillies, Address: [Edinburgh?] Accused: James Carmichael, Address: [Edinburgh?] Accused: Eliza Ann Clark, alias Black, Address: [Edinburgh?] Victim: George Lawrie, Gourock, Renfrewshire (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/). --0--