Elijah HERBERT - Assizes Records/Prison Ships (General)

by m p griffiths @, Saturday, May 12, 2012, 13:19 (4571 days ago) @ jimashton

Assize records are also held at The National Archives.

Research guides

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=154

Looking at various website entries - Many convicts some from Gloucestershire/Herefordshire (via Portland Prison) were sent to Tasmania 1851


Google:

Sentencing to Departure - Prison Hulks & Convict Gaols - Victorian


this is the link to front page

Victorian Crime & Punishment


http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/index.php


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Convict Records


www.coraweb.com.au/convict.htm


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There are 46 pages on the 1851 census

Dorset
Portland District Convict Prison

two from Gloucestershire


Wm WHITE, age 29, Butcher from Coleford
David YOUNG, age 22 - Collier, Viol (Viney? Hill) ( *** Ancestry: 10 years transportation housekeeping) possibly the David Young age 14 on the 1841 census Lydney, or David YOUNG age 10 on the 1841 census Newland


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Gloucestershire Genealogical Database

David YOUNG - 17 January 1849 age 20 (Collier - Coleford)
William WHITE - 21 October 1849 age 28 (Butcher - Coleford)

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