RE: Re; BOUNTY system

[Pat Wade]

Hi Andrew,

Thank you very much for this information.

I shall have a look to see if my library has a copy of the books mentioned.

Thank you
Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: billinghurst [mailto:billin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 18 November 2012 3:51 PM
To: Pat Wade; gena...@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re; BOUNTY system

> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to read about the bounty system, but have not found
> the right page to answer my question.
>
> Does anyone know how long a emigrant was bound by the bounty?
>
> I have what I believe is the arrival of my husbands GG Grandmother
> Ellen Casey in Feb 1845 on the Herald into NSW, but she got married in
> December 1845 in NSW to a soldier. They or at least she was still in
> NSW in Oct 1846 - birth of first child. Then down to Tasmania. Was
> this long enough?
>
> Also I note that the NSW has bounty records up to
> 1841/2 does anyone know if 1842upwards are available anywhere??
>
> Thank you
> Pat

Pat,

=> NSW

The book that you want to get is

R. B. Madgwick[1], "Immigration into Eastern Australia 1788-1851"
[originally published in 1937]

republished 1969, and unfortunately still in copyright, not currently published. I did manage to get one second-hand as it was reputedly used as a text book.

The rules of the bounty systems were set by government, so should be able to be pulled from government notices and changed with each scheme. There was no time limit as I recall or can find in reading, it was about funding them to come over, and it was less likely that they were able to pay or maybe even want to pay to go back to the UK. Remember that we are talking about the poorer (agricultural labourers or other manual tasks) so those unable to pay their own way, so they either came here and continued to be poor (no return), or came
=> Tasmania

Different schemes in place, for that you will need ...

Ian Pearce and Clare Cowling, "Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania,
Section Four — Records relating to free immigration" (1975) I am unsure
whether this is available, I remember buying the last copy that AOT had available when I got mine years ago (Yes, I am to blame). It may be available online or again in book form, I have never checked. It has prefatory information about immigration, then the records lists.

Hope that all helps.

Regards, Andrew

[billinghurst]

poor (no return), or came here and made a fortune, and had no need to go

home to be poor again, plus they were greatly unlikely to be able to buy

land as they rented it from the lord of the manor.



Anyway my (bad) typing below ...



Chapter 8 — The development and control of the Bounty system 1835-1841



[p.151]



... 'The first set of Bounty regulations was contained in a Government

Notice issued at Sydney in October, 1835. The bounties offered were similar

to those subsequently granted by Elliot to Government emigrants. This is

not surprising, for Elliot endeavoured to make his system subserve the

interests of the colonies; and those were presumably expressed in the

regulations governing their own immigration system. The bounties offered

were £30 for a married man and his wife, providing neither was over thirty

yeas of age on embarkation, and £5 for each of their children over twelve

months old. £15 was allowed "for every unmarried female whose age shall be

be below fifteen nor above thirty years, who shall come out with the

consent of the settler or his agent, under the protection of the married

couple, as forming part of the family, and destined to remain with it until

such female be otherwise provided for." A bounty of £10 was granted for

every unmarried male immigrant between eighteen and twenty-five, "brought

out by a settler, who at the same time brings out an equal number of

females, accompanying and attached to a family." All the adult males were

to be either mechanics of farm servants.'





To your other question, about post-1841. That is pretty well when they

stopped and the means changed.



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bowden_Madgwick