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In one of the Ancestry links from Cass T, some information as well as I can make  it out.

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8812/images/41717_329563-00215?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=ee31425e8e396d1a2ce9e5cd2bbf54b2&pId=30646

David SIMPKINS. Age 70. C of E Single labourer . Born Warwick (maybe?) EDIT It looks more like Yarmouth England.
Came out 50 years ago in the Rosaline to Sydney.  In Sydney all the time.

 No friends. No means

No issue

Sue

In one of the Ancestry links from Cass T, some information as well as I can make  it out.

https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/8812/images/41717_329563-00215?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=ee31425e8e396d1a2ce9e5cd2bbf54b2&pId=30646

David SIMPKINS. Age 70. C of E Single labourer . Born Warwick (maybe?) EDIT It looks more like Yarmouth England.
Came out 50 years ago in the Rosaline to Sydney.  In Sydney all the time.

 No friends. No means

No issue

Sue

Have had a look at this now - this man is a couple of years younger than the David I'm looking for and I think you're right about it being Yarmouth etc (gosh it's a tough scan!). Doubt this one is our man.

His name was SIMKINS on the records I have seen.

Quote from: ccmmgr on Friday 28 July 23 22:31 BST (UK)

  1895 he is arrested aged 70 for vagrancy in Marulan, taken to Goulburn Prison where he is remanded for a week before being assessed by Dr McKillop at the lunatic asylum (I'm assuming Kenmore, but no name given) 

 

He was remanded to Liverpool Asylum.

Thank you so much for this - I thought the L.A. notation was just "lunatic asylum" as there was no key to it.

Hello everyone,

Greetings from the other side of the vast pond.

I'm hoping someone might be able to help; I've been tracing a rather sad story of a young man named David Simkin b.1825 in Birmingham, Warwickshire. He was convicted for stealing a pair of bellows aged 18 when he had already been sentenced for stealing pigeons. At 5"2 and 6st11lbs he was quite a wisp of a thing.

He was transported on the Sir George Seymour out to Van Dieman's Land on the first ship from Pentonville prison in the 1840s and eventually ended up on the dreaded Norfolk Island as part of his 7 year sentence. He gained his freedom in 1851 and I'm not sure what he did in the interim but in 1895 he is arrested aged 70 for vagrancy in Marulan, taken to Goulburn Prison where he is remanded for a week before being assessed by Dr McKillop at the lunatic asylum (I'm assuming Kenmore, but no name given) who determines that he is suffering from 'senile decay'.

I don't think David ever married but I would like to know where he is buried or at least when he died and I'm not coming up trumps.

Any advice or ideas gratefully received.

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There is a booklet for the MIs of "Morecambe Municipal Cemetery" - this is the cemetery just off Hornby Terrace - published by the Lancaster & District Family History Group (which you can buy from them - see their website).  I have several relatives buried there, so it was worthwhile buying a copy. 
Yes, there is an MI for Henry Marshall and the following people are mentioned on it:
1)  Henry Marshall died July 2nd [sic] 1901 aged 68
2)  Eliza his wife died June 12th 1903 aged 72
3)  Evelyn, daughter of J.W. & Eva Marshall and grand-daughter of the above, died Feb 21st 1899 aged 6 months
4)  Clara, daughter of the above H. & E. Marshall died July 14th 1930 aged 68.

no other people called Marshall with an MI in that cemetery.
Ian

Thank you so much!