Prisoner Denis DOGHERTY
Dogherty, Fisher and O’Brien arrested 3 November 1871. They were transferred to the Hobart Gaol in July 1873, and photographed by T. J. Nevin on incarceration. … More Prisoner Denis DOGHERTY
Dogherty, Fisher and O’Brien arrested 3 November 1871. They were transferred to the Hobart Gaol in July 1873, and photographed by T. J. Nevin on incarceration. … More Prisoner Denis DOGHERTY
Two different photographs are extant in the National Library of Australia collection – and not recorded in any other public collection – of a prisoner whom the police discharged as Charles Heys on 22nd July 1874, noting in the gazette that his alias was Ward, transported to Tasmania on the Moffatt 2. Thomas J. Nevin took both photographs at the Hobart Gaol, and possibly of two different men, but which photograph is the one taken on discharge in 1874 of the prisoner identified by police as Charles Heys in 1874? If it is the same prisoner in both photographs, he was photographed at different times wearing the standard issue winter prisoner uniform in one, and summer uniform in the other. Given that Charles Heys [what is the verso inscription -Heys or Hayes?] as Ward was discharged during the winter month of July, the prisoner wearing the heavy overcoat was most likely the man recorded as Charles Heys when Nevin photographed him for that event. … More Prisoner Charles HEYS [Hayes?] as Ward
John (his name is incorrectly inscribed on the verso of this carte as William) Woodley was photographed during incarceration at the Hobart Gaol in 1874, and probably again on discharge 9th January 1878. … More Prisoner William or John WOODLEY
William Walker was photographed at the Mayor’s Court, Hobart Town Hall by Thomas Nevin on discharge, 22 July 1874, having served 7 yrs of a 10 year sentence. But William Walker was convicted again 23 October, 1875, sentenced to 6 months for larceny, and incarcerated at the Hobart Gaol. His age was listed as 68 yrs; and his occupation as “painter”. … More Prisoner William WALKER
William Mumford, convicted for 10 years on 10th September, 1872, at the Supreme Court, Hobart. Photographed by Nevin on that date at the Hobart Gaol, and photographed again with a ticket of leave on 8th February 1878 … More Prisoner William MUMFORD
Samuel Evans was photographed by Nevin at the Hobart Gaol, 9th December, 1874, on the prisoner’s discharge … More Prisoner Samuel EVANS
Robert West was received from Port Arthur, and photographed by Nevin on discharge at the Hobart Gaol, 18 December 1875 … More Prisoner Robert WEST
John Toomey was received from Port Arthur, photographed by T. J. Nevin on discharge at the Hobart Municipal Police Office, Town Hall on 1st May 1875. Also discharged and photographed by Nevin in the same week were John Moran and Bewley Tuck. … More Prisoner John TOOMEY
Public outrage at capital punishment, sparked by the execution of Job Smith whom Nevin had photographed under the alias of William Campbell (NLA and TMAG Collections), referred to the reprieve granted to Charles Downes, as well as Marsh and Henry Page, in letters to The Mercury, May 29th 1875. … More Prisoner Henry PAGE
From being “enlarged” on a ticket-of-leave in January, 1874, John Moran was in and out of Hobart Gaol on a regular basis. He was photographed by government contractor Thomas J. Nevin at discharge on 6th February 1874, and this photo of him circulated with the warrant on 26th October 1875. … More Prisoner John MORAN 1874
John F. Morris was photographed by Nevin on discharge from the Hobart MPO Town Hall, 28th April, 1875. … More Prisoner John F. MORRIS
James Wynne, known to police as WYNN, was photographed on discharge at the Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall by T.J. Nevin in the week of 3 March 1875. He was 57 yrs old, convicted of housebreaking and robbery in 1871, sentenced to 5 years, and discharged “Free in servitude” (FS). … More Prisoner James WYNNE [Wynn]
A. Dangerous Character-A prisoner under going a sentence in H M Gaol was brought before the Police Magistrate yesterday for committing an assault on one of the warders of the establishment It appeared that the man, whose name is James Harper, of a remarkably villanous countenance was like “Oliver Twist, the workhouse boy, and wanted more breakfast, after consuming his legal allowance of “skilley”, and because the warder refused this most unreasonable request, he took up a zinc bucket containing about two gallons of the coveted “skilley, ” and sent bucket and all flying at the warder’s head … More Prisoner James HARPER like Oliver Twist
James Calhoun, aged 21, native, was photographed by Nevin on discharge from the Hobart Gaol, 21st November 1874 … More Prisoner James CALHOUN
Charles Downes was found guilty on a charge of feloniously assaulting Dorothy Smith, aged 9 years, in Stacey’s revolving circus in the Queen’s Domain, and remanded for sentence. He was photographed at the Hobart Gaol by Thomas J. Nevin between conviction in 1872 and before Charles Downes’ death sentence was reprieved to life imprisonment, May 1875. … More Prisoner Charles DOWNES 1872-1875
The information about Gilmore’s criminal activities from the police gazettes, called Tasmania Reports of Crime Information for Police, James Barnard, Gov’t Printer, is easily obtainable, so why was nothing but basic transportation records about this prisoner, Michael Gilmore (and the second man with a similar name) included in the National Library of Australia’s publication of their Tasmanian “convict portraits”, titled Exiled, The Port Arthur Convict Photographs (NLA 2011)? … More Prisoners Micheal GILMORE and James KILPATRICK
Thomas Kelly was arrested and photographed by Nevin at the Hobart Gaol on 2 November 1873. … More Prisoner Thomas KELLY
Thomas Griffin per Rodney 2 was discharged from the Port Arthur prison on 22-26 June 1872, with a ticket of leave. He was not photographed at Port Arthur, despite the inscription on the verso of his photograph – if the NLA Catalogue notes have literally transcribed it, that is, which is often not the case with these photographs of prisoners bearing the 20th century archivist’s incorrect information compounded by the NLA’s batch edit of all 84 of their collection. His TOL was recorded earlier, on the 12 June 1872. He remained in service at the Military Barracks (Anglesea Barracks, Hobart) until he absconded on 6th January 1873. When he was found and arrested at Glenorchy, he was incarcerated at the Hobart Gaol where Thomas Nevin photographed him in the week of 10 June 1873. … More Prisoner Thomas GRIFFIN
James Thomas was convicted in the Launceston Supreme Court for 6yrs, transferred to the Hobart Gaol and photographed on discharge by Nevin on 28 June 1876. He was admitted as a pauper to the Brickfields Depot and went AWOL in January 1877. … More Prisoner James THOMAS
Thomas Molyneaux, misspelt as Molineaux by NLA, photographed by Nevin on discharge, 1st October 1873 at the Municipal Police Office, Town Hall Hobart. … More Prisoner Thomas MOLINEAUX
Thomas Wood transported as Key, was arraigned 15 July 1873 and photographed by Nevin at the Supreme Court on that date. … More Prisoner Thomas WOOD as KEY
The inscription ‘Taken at Port Arthur 1874” is Beattie’s confabulation of facts in the name of tourism. Beattie prepared copies of these prisoner cdv’s for display in his collection of Tasmanian convictaria at his “Port Arthur Museum” located at 51 Murray St. Hobart (and not at Port Arthur) to coincide with the first of two early 20th century film adaptations (1908-9, 22 minutes – see theatre poster below; the second was filmed at Port Arthur in 1927) of Marcus Clarke’s popular fiction For The Term of His Natural Life which appeared as a serial in 1870 and in novel form in 1874. Hence the date “1874” and the place “Taken at Port Arthur” written on the verso of this cdv when the actual date and the actual place of photographic capture were respectively 1873 and the Hobart Gaol in Campbell Street. Beattie fabricated this fake history for several dozen original mugshots taken in the 1870s by government contractor T. J. Nevin because he was required under the terms of his own commission as government contractor (from ca. 1900) to market photographic imagery of Tasmania’s penal heritage to the intercolonial tourist. The loose cdv’s such as this one of prisoner John Appleby were prepared for sale and exhibition at Sydney’s Royal Hotel in 1915 to be displayed as Port Arthur relics, alongside relics and documents associated with the fake convict hulk Success which visited Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. The collection of “convict portraits” held at the National Library of Australia Canberra and at the State Library of NSW in the Mitchell Collection are the estrays from these exhibitions. … More Prisoner John APPLEBY
Luke Marshall, 45 years old, was arraigned at the Supreme Court Launceston on 8th January 1874 and sentenced to eight years for cattle-stealing. He was transferred to the Hobart Gaol and photographed by Thomas Nevin on 12th January 1874. … More Prisoner Luke MARSHALL
Thomas Cahill was convicted and photographed at the Hobart Gaol by Nevin in February 1873, again in 1875 and discharged 12 May 1875 at Hobart. … More Prisoner Thomas CAHILL
Locally-born Leonard Hand was a mere 26 years old. He was a special case for the chaplain of the prison, Rowland Hayward, and the surgeon Dr Coverdale who made a strong representation to the House of Assembly’s committee on penal discipline on Hand’s behalf in 1873, hoping to remove the prisoner from the isolation of the separate prison. It was evident to Dr Coverdale that rehabilitation was only possible if Hand (and others) were removed to the general prison community . … More Prisoner Leonard HAND
Robert McKay was tried on 17 October 1872 at the Launceston Supreme Court and transferred to the Hobart Gaol where he was photographed by Thomas J. Nevin. … More Prisoner Robert J. McKAY
Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day, wife of Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923), was born in London on 26 March 1847, and christened at St Mary’s, Rotherhithe, London, UK on 28th April 1847, the eldest daughter of Captain James Day and Rachael Pocock who were married at St David’s Church Hobart on January 6th, 1841. Her younger … More The Nevin group portrait and wedding photographs 1871
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