Daniel Burke

Daniel Burke, one of 180 convicts transported on the Ocean, August 1817

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Daniel Burke
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1803
Occupation:	Labourer
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Male median life span was 57 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to 7 years

Crime:	Theft~grand larceny
Convicted at:	London Gaol Delivery
Sentence term:	7 years
Ship:	Ocean
Departure date:	August, 1817
Arrival date:	1st January, 1818
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 180 other convicts

References

Primary source:	UK Prison Hulk Registers HO9/8. Old Bailey, online. State Records NSW (Register of COF NRS 12208). Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 375 (189)
Source description:	This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project.

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Community Contributions

Iris Dunne on 1st June, 2020 wrote:

Certificate of Freedom No. 21/2296 dated 2 July 1824, Convicted 2 July 1817 in London, Trade Labourer & Brush Maker, Aged 21

Iris Dunne on 1st June, 2020 wrote:

DANIEL BURKE, Theft > grand larceny, 2nd July 1817.
937. DANIEL BURKE was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of May , one pair of trowsers, value 18s. , the goods of Richard Cleobury .

JOHN BURGESS. I am shopman to Mr. Cleobury, who is a clothier , and lives in Cheapside . On the 24th of May, about half-past eight o’clock in the morning. I saw the prisoner take the trowsers from the door, and put them into his apron - He then ran across the road, and through Bow-churchyard; I pursued, calling out stop thief! he took them out of his apron and threw them away. I secured him behind a cart in Cloak-lane, and am sure he is the boy. He stood at the door three or four minutes. I lost sight of him, but soon found him again - He was running. I picked the trowsers up.

(Property produced and sworn to.)

Prisoner’s Defence. I know nothing about it.

GUILTY . Aged 14.

Transported for Seven Years .

London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t18170702-12

Prison Hulk ship Leviathan moored at Portsmouth, Received 21 July 1817, aged 14, Offence Felony, 4 Aug. 1817 to NSW

Convict Changes History

Iris Dunne on 1st June, 2020 made the following changes:

source: State Records NSW (Register of COF NRS 12208). Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 375 (189) (prev. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Pag

Iris Dunne on 1st June, 2020 made the following changes:

source: UK Prison Hulk Registers HO9/8. Old Bailey, online. State Records NSW (Register of COF NRS 12208). Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 375 (189) (prev. State Records NSW (Register of COF