Hi Carolyn As I said I didn't think you were saying that yours was transported Millbank was coming to the end of its life then and stopped having inmates from 1886 I can't see a logical reason why anyone from Leicester would be sent there In fact Millbank was supposed to be a military prison from 1870, borne out by the 1881 census where all appear to be soldiers or military , was he a soldier? If they ended their days in Broadmoor it suggests they had some serious behavioral problems The majority of people clearly had a desire to be in England, despite being sentenced here, at least those born here Plenty of those that were transported also attempted to return, some managed it despite the difficulties The main driver to leave these shores was usually money or the potential of earning/gaining some More left for Australia in some gold rush years than were ever transported there Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi, Nivard, > No. my relative was not "transported." He actually died in 1896 in > Broadmoor Hospital in England. I did learn that "transporting" ended before > 1883 when I was doing my research on Millbank. I wondered if many Leicester > courts sent their offenders to Millbank. Did judges (or whoever made the > final decision) have discression about where convicted people were sent? > > Derek's request for information just started me imagining that perhaps he > had not yet thought that he should look farther afield for Selina, as at > that point, she might not have been wanting to remain in England. (Penal > servitude--whether the transgression was my fault, or not-- would not make > me feel very "warm and fuzzy" about the country that put me in prison!) > --Carolyn