Bermuda, 1848, Home Office : Returns; Financial document; Correspondence 1848.

Format:

Other

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letter writing.

Letters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Letters from the Home Office on matters related to Bermuda. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Proposition to construct a prison on Boaz Island to replace the hulks; Conveyance home of invalided and pardoned convicts; Enquiry regarding a convict named William Woodly; Enforcement of hard labour on prisoners in the public gaols; Difficulty of dealing with teenaged boy convicts sent out to Bermuda; Printed copy of Captain Maconochie's mark system of convict management; Printed copy of Home Inspector of Prisons William Williams, Inspector of Prisons John G Perry and Surveyor General J Jebb's responses to Captain Maconochie's system; Statements of balances due to the Convict Establishments in Bermuda and Gibraltar; Pension of an injured convict named Henry Nutley; Conveyance of convicts from the United Kingdom to Bermuda and Bermuda to Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania] on the Bangalore ; Employment of John Belam as Commander of the Medway convict hulk; Accounts for provisions supplied to the Convict Establishments in Bermuda and Gibraltar; Formation of an organised force for the superintendence of convicts; Proposed grant of pardons to various convicts including, but not limited to, John Hardman, George Vickery, George Buster Grundy, and Thomas Young; Purchase of Boaz Island; Expense of sending framed wooden buildings from England; Use of part of Boaz Island for a defensive work; 'Spiritual destitution' of Roman Catholic convicts; Reception, treatment, and health of an Irish convict named John Mitchel; Claim for £27 13s 6d subsistence money from the master of the Eleanor for the conveyance of convicts; Enquiry regarding a convict named James Young who died on board the Antelope hulk; Expenditure on convict buildings; Alleged plan of the Irish Republican Union in New York to take RMS Great Western to Bermuda to free convict John Mitchel; Statement of reserved earning due to four convicts; Proposed use of wooden convict barracks at Spike Island rather than Bermuda due to the large number of convicts in prisons in Ireland; Suggested promotion of Second Mate Lloyd; Objections to sending additional Irish convicts to Bermuda; Certification that John Mitchel had been sentenced to be transported for 14 years; Appointment of a Clerk of Works for the construction of the new prison; Account of travelling charges and allowances due to Clerk of Works E Lander; Letter from Mrs Charlotte Penrose, wife of Convict Stewart Samuel Penrose, requesting free passage to Bermuda for herself and her children; Selection of convicts for removal on tickets of leave; Sickness and mortality among Irish convicts.

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:CO 37/125.

CO 37.