Convicts of Mangles (6)

[macwil]

I think it's 'carelessness'. There are too many letters for simply 'careless'.

[Sue Mackay]

Carelessness with sheep (two old fashioned double s's

[Megan Roberts]

I am hoping someone can help me with the comment right at the bottom of this Ticket of Leave. It reads to me like "Removed from Benot Asylum to Parra - a [?Parramatta] Warrant 20 Feb 56"





I've "googled" and "binged" but can't find any reference to a "Benot Asylum".


Any help as usual will be much appreciated. Thanks.

[helachau]

Could it be an abbreviation of "Benevolent Asylum"?

[Megan Roberts]

Could it be an abbreviation of "Benevolent Asylum"?

Have done a little searching around the NSW archive's information guides, it's a definite possibility, particularly based on his age, as he would have been about 64 in 1856.

So thanks for that very useful suggestion.

[Megan Roberts]

I have come across references to convicts applying for their conditional / absolute pardons and the registers where they list who has applied and when they not "fees enclosed".

I can't any reference to how much the fees were. Does anyone know?

Thanks.

[Dundee10]

I can only find a few references to the fee, this one from 1847 states that the fee then was five shillings and sixpence.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37127288

These two articles give an idea of wages at the time and there are likely many more, so it was a fair chunk of their earnings, especially if they weren't in a trade. I doubt that a female in domestic service would have the means to pay.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12889149
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228249784

[Megan Roberts]

Dundee10

Thanks for those articles - they go a long way to explain why many of the lifer convicts names appear in the lists of those convicts who haven't picked up their pardons and will be liable for the consequences if they don't do so within a specified period of time! Presumably they had to have them to hand to prove that they were free men.

I wonder whether they had to pay to apply, as well as paying to pick up their actual pardons? Sounds like a right old money making scheme to me.

[macwil]

Hi Megan,
Just been browsing Australian Newspapers, via myheritage, and spotted this:-

FREE PARDON GRANTED -- James Walker, Mangles.

Cornwall Chronicle Oct 17 1850 (last column of page 709)
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

https://www.
myheritage.com/research/record-10450-29298424/cornwall-chronicle-launceston-tas

Hope you haven't already got it.

Regards
Malcolm.

[Megan Roberts]

Hi Malcolm,

Thanks for the information. I think that this James Walker is not the same one that was on Mangles 6. The one on Mangles 6 was serving 7 years, so at the end of his sentence he got a Certificate of Freedom. It was those serving Life that got Pardons.

From checking the https://www.hawkesbury.net.au/claimaconvict/index.php lists there was a James Walker on Mangles 7 who was serving life who was taken to Van Diemen's Land, and so the article in the Cornwall Chronicle is most likely referring to him, as the only other James Walker on a Mangles voyage, apart from the one on Mangles 6, was one on Mangles 9 serving 10 years who was transported to NSW.

Many thanks for the information and interest.

Megan