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Transportation
Richard Scott 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 632. --0-- Roscoe, Katy (2018), “Convicts and the Sea: the naval influence on Gibraltar Convict Establishment” at https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/ --0-- England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892; England; Yorkshire - North Riding; 1847 & 1848 |
| 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: 29 November, 1859: Conditional Pardon approved. For more details of his convict life, see (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p178. --00—
VDL: 26 May, 1853: On arrival in VDL, Richard Scott, convict #28022, was listed as a farm labourer; transported for 7 years for desertion; 32 years old, 5’7 ¾” tall with dark brown hair, grey eyes and a dark complexion. He was single, Protestant and semi-literate. Native place: Northallerton, Yorkshire. He said he had been transported for “housebreaking, stealing 1 shilling”, previous conviction for stealing geese – 6 months’ jail. Gibraltar report “very good” (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-115$init=CON33-1-115p178). Family: Father William; mother Margaret; brothers Thomas and William; sisters Ann and Elizabeth (Scotland) – at his native place (http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai62739). --0--
VOYAGE: From the medical journal of the St Vincent, by Thomas Somerville, Surgeon Superintendent, Folio 2: 1 March, 1853: Richard Scott, aged 22, convict; sick or hurt, constipatio; put on sick list, 1 March 1853, discharged duty 4 March 1853 (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C4106910). --00--
3 February, 1853: He was sent aboard the St Vincent for transportation to VDL (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --00--
On Gibraltar, RICHARD SCOTT was described as 21 years old when convicted, sentenced to 15 years for “felony and a previous conviction”; “first conviction” [error in entry]; born in Yorkshire; Church of England; light brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair complexion, 5’7” tall; illiterate; labourer; single; relatives/family – living in Thirsk (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --
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: 4 March, 1851: SCOTT, RICHARD #1610, arrived on Gibraltar from England per Cornwall. He was held on the Europa hulk (UK, Prison Commission Records, 1770-1951; Misc.; Register of Prisoners; 1810-1822 [mislabelled]). --
TRIAL: 4 January, 1848: Richard Scott, 21 and semi-literate, was sentenced at the York County Sessions to 15 years’ transportation for “housebreaking and before convicted of felony” (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for Richard Scott; England; Yorkshire - North Riding; 1848). --00--
PREVIOUS CONVICTION: 5 January, 1847: Two charges of larceny, 3 months’ jail each (6 months total) for stealing geese (England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 for Richard Scott; England; Yorkshire - North Riding; 1847). --0--