Sentenced to transportation

[JandL]

A James Bamkin was sentenced to transportation in Leicester Court 18/3/1854 for stabbing murder. Cannot find what happened to him thereafter. The surname is sometimes Bampkin, etc. Searched Tasmania under James B.... unsucessfully, likewise NSW online records. Anyone have any thoughts?

[Coromandel]

The trial of James Bampkin (27) and John Underwood Green (25) is reported in some detail in the Leicester Chronicle of 25 March 1854. They were found guilty of 'wounding Thomas Youatt and John Blankley, at Wanlip, on the 8th September, with intent to do them some grievous bodily harm' but not guilty of 'intent to kill and murder'. They were sentenced 'to be transported beyond the seas for the term of their natural life'.

The Leicester Chronicle of 27 May 1854 reports that John Underwood Green had been 'removed to Wakefield House of Correction, there to undergo the usual probationary imprisonment before leaving [his] native country for some distant place beyond the seas.' It goes on to say that

'James Bampkin, the other man convicted of participating in the affray at Wanlip, is about to be removed to Millbank, together with the two Savins, convicted of sheep-stealing at Whetsone. They will be removed as soon as the elder Savin, who is on the sick list, has recovered.

It's possible that he never got transported. The National Archives have records of Millbank prison, I think.

[warncoort]

There is a Henry but 12 years too early.

[warncoort]

This appears to be the family website.
www.
bamkin.co.uk

[Coromandel]

This appears to be the family website.
www.
bamkin.co.uk

There only seem to be adverts there, unfortunately.

Perhaps this is the same site, with a new host:

http://
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bamkin/