Convicts on the ship "Hashemy" arrived 9th June 1849

[bitzar]

My ancestor arrived as an exile on the ‘Maitland’ at Port Phillip in 1846. 

I’m at work but at home I’m sure I have some docs signed by Queen Victoria stating something about his freedom as long as he doesn’t return to England!

Bitzar.

[BAC3]

Hello Bitzar,

Could you please confirm who your "Exile" ancestor off the Maitland was, especially if he had been an ex-Parkhurst Prison juvenile.......I would be very grateful.

Thank you,

BAC3

[bitzar]

Hi again BAC3

My ancestor was William NEWEY.  I have chatted to you before about HOWLETT who was of interest to you but I can’t link him to mine even though I think they were both from Suffolk.

Bitzar

[BAC3]

Good Morning Bitzar,

Thank you for replying.

William NEWEY was not ex-Parkhurst Prison (too old!!) and therefore outside my research.   However, he seems to have come from Leicestershire not Suffolk as did Henry HOWLETT.......our correspondence was 4 years ago now.

Take care,

BAC3

[bitzar]

Yes BAC3

I was referring to the Howlett’s both being from Suffolk.  Maybe connected somewhere, just don’t know where.

Bitzar.

[majm]

My ancestor arrived as an exile on the ‘Maitland’ at Port Phillip in 1846. 

I’m at work but at home I’m sure I have some docs signed by Queen Victoria stating something about his freedom as long as he doesn’t return to England!

Bitzar.

The Pardon you are likely referring to would be a Conditional Pardon .... the main condition being that he did not return to England.   A Free Pardon would be without Conditions.  Jomot has shown that our OPs chap was taken off the Hashemy before it left England and  he was then awarded a free pardon ,  so he did not come to NSW on that voyage.

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Effectively the free pardon undid the sentence of transportation beyond the seas.  Perhaps he is to be found on 1851 and later Census.
JM

[sallyyorks]

Slightly confused by the use of the term 'exile' instead of convict.
Exile is a general term. Convict is more accurate I would think

[majm]

Slightly confused by the use of the term 'exile' instead of convict.
Exile is a general term. Convict is more accurate I would think

Convict-Exile refers to a specific period after convictism had effectively ceased to what was, at that time, New South  Wales.  Those transported as Convict-Exiles had already served part of their sentence in prisons in Britain and were males and selected.  They were not kept behind bars once landed in NSW.  This was in the late 1840s. 

JM

[BAC3]

Hello sallyyorks,

Lord Stanley instructed George Gipps on 27/07/1844 that:

       ......he would be sending to Port Phillip prisoners who had served a term of between
       one and two years under special discipline in the new model prison at Pentonville. 
       Here it was hoped they would have been 'reformed' and could go out not as convicts
       but as 'exiles', with conditional pardons to begin a new life in a new country.

Eventually the instructions extended to both Millbank and Parkhurst Prisons.

For the moment,

BAC3