1861 Census Lookup

[daz68]

This is a bit of a long shot - but nothing ventured and all that.

An ancestor of mine was sentenced to manslaugher and transported to Australia I was hoping to find him on the 1861 Census at Portland Gaol.  I know the ship (Lincelles) he arrived in Perth, Australia on, left Portland on the 5th October 1861 (ie after the 1861 Census was recorded) and I am ASSUMING he would have been in the Portland gaol waiting his transportation.  The name of the person I am looking for is:

Wiliam Markham, born Grasby, Lincolnshire in October 1835.

Any help gratefully received.

Many  thanks

Darren Kemp

[Fisherman]

Hi Daz68

All prisoners are listed by initials only - and there are 68 pages of them

Fisherman

[Fisherman]

Darren

I think this may be him - but in the District Convict Prison Chatham  Kent.

RG9 piece 480 folio 164 page 17

W M   Convict  Unmarried 24  Agricultural Labourer  Lincoln Grassby.

There are 431 W M's locked up in various institutions in 61 and he is the only one I can see from Grasby/Grassby

Fisherman

[daz68]

Thanks VERY MUCH Fisherman for the obvious amount of trawling you must have done. 

This is very intriguing to find him in Kent.  Presumably they just moved them around when ever they had space issues.  I can see this being a real mystery to try and understand between March 1859 when he was sentenced in York to Oct 1861 where was he locked up.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Darren

[allibaker]

do you have your man in the other cencuses?
here he is in 1851-
living in grasby lincs
thomas curtis 34yrs publican and farmer
maria 34yrs wife
mary.a gerdom 34yrs unmarried sister in law
david brockholm 20yrs servant
william markham 16yrs farm labourer lodger
SOURCE INFO-H0107-2114
FOLIO-114
PAGE-22

regards
alli