Letters from various individuals most of which relate to the Convict Department,...

Letters from various individuals most of which relate to the Convict Department, despatches sent from the governor in CO 37/165, CO 37/166, and the offices' letters in CO 37/167. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• Dr Armitage (health certification and passage details for Schoolmaster William Thomas Roberts and Assistant Schoolmaster Charles Abbott);
• Charles Abbott, Assistant Schoolmaster (salary advance, passage for himself and his family);
• Robert Belvin, former Warden (case of his removal for 'habitual intemperance');
• John Brodrick (salary owed after resignation);
• Robert Buller, Assistant Warden (application for payment of travel expenses, asks to be reassigned to Bermuda);
• Edward Brooks, Assistant Warden (application for payment of travel expenses);
• Thomas Bensley (inquiry about a Mr Damram thought to be serving in either Bermuda or Malta);
• Dr C H Butterfield, Medical Officer (arrival of transported convicts, extended leave of absence, return passage, salary, escort allowance);
• George Brittain, Assistant Warden (resignation, salary, certificate of character request, character inquiry from Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Captain D Labalmondiere);
• Rev Edward Brice (application for appointment as Assistant Chaplain);
• Margaret Clout (lack of financial assistance from husband Assistant Warden George Clout);
• Cox & Co (salary of Governor Colonel Freeman Murray, case of Captain Pasco's suspension);
• Ann Crawford (petition for son, a convict in Bermuda) [not included in volume];
• Mary Anne Cope (wife of Assistant Warden James Cope asking for financial assistance for herself and sick child);
• Michael H Dean, former Warden (salary);
• Thomas M Dill, Master of Sir George F Seymour (passenger lists);
• Mr Drury (application for appointment in Australia);
• Dr Charles F Edwards, Chief Medical Officer (travelling expenses, requests hospital supplies, extended leave of absence);
• Sarah Evans (requests passage to join husband Assistant Warden Aaron Evans);
• Martin Ferrick (travel expenses);
• Jane Fletcher (location of husband Assistant Warden Thomas B Fletcher);
• John Francis, Principal Warden (complaint against Convict Department authorities, return passage, escort allowance for himself, Samuel Lee, Edmund Waller and George Brittain);
• Maryann [Margaret] Goulstone, widow of a former assistant warden (requests financial assistance);
• Gray and Son (passages of Convict Department employees and their families);
• Seth Harvey, Solicitor General (requests payment for services rendered in military cases);
• Michael Kealy (application for appointment as warden);
• John Kirkham (expense account, memorial of Gilbert McDonald, export allowance for himself, George Sims, Joseph Kemp, and David Symes);
• Joseph Kemp (return passage);
• Robert Kennedy, Colonial Secretary (desire to retire on a pension due to diminishing eye-sight, salary, leave of absence, salary statement);
• Alfred Lloyd (reopens case of forced resignation in 1850);
• Samuel Lee, Assistant Warden (salary);
• Gilbert McDonald, prisoner at Dartmoor Prison (requests return of money earned as a convict carpenter);
• Arthur Mills (sale of effects of deceased Assistant Warden John Vickers);
• Dr Gavin Milroy (public health, report on the yellow fever epidemics of 1853 and 1856);
• Rev Dr Murray, Garrison Chaplain (pension claim for services as Convict Department chaplain);
• John Mantach (passage for the two children of Matron Isabella Mantach and deceased Rev Robert Mantach to join their mother in Bermuda);
• Bishop of Newfoundland (travel expenses, requests that Bermuda and Bahamas be removed from his diocese, confirmations conducted in Bermuda, proposed visit to Moravian Settlements and Labrador missionary stations);
• Charlotte Penrose (application for appointment as matron);
• John Purton (questions concerning application for employment);
• Captain Montague Pasco, former Convict Department Deputy Superintendent (salary, information concerning his removal);
• W F Roberts (appointment as assistant schoolmaster for convicts);
• Jesse Roberts (explains reason for resignation, requests reemployment);
• Miss A E Steere (asks if Samuel Logan was ever Governor of Bermuda);
• David Symes [Sims], Assistant Warden (resignation, salary);
• Mrs Shannon (forwards a letter from an 'old domestic' Harriet Belvin concerning her husband former Assistant Overseer Robert Belvin);
• Charles Stephenson (complaint against Convict Department authorities for removal);
• Elizabeth Willcocks (passage to join her husband Schoolmaster Edward Willcocks);
• Rev Herbert H Williams (application for appointment as chaplain).

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