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Transportation
Thomas Burley was transported on the Hadlow, departing 31st Jul 1818 and arriving 24th Dec 1818 with 150 passengers.
Hadlow (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 80. NSW State Archives, Pardons (HO10/54)&(Reel No.783, Roll No.1250)& Indents (NRS 12188, Item 4/4006, Microfiche 640)& TOL Butts (NRS 12202, Items 4/4079 & 4/4121 & 4/4125)&(NRS 12204)& Death Register (4/4549, Reel 690, page 26). UK Prison Hulk Registers (HO9/4) |
| 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 Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
NSW 1828 Census Index Thomas Burley, age 30, G.S. Hadlow, 1819, Life, protestant, Labourer, John Bingle, Purnbeurn Durham district. (John Bingle was a farmer who came free, with his wife, in 1821, had 1700 acres of land and had cattle.)
Marriage Registration. 1823. Rachael Davies Married Thomas Burley 1823 [V18233008 V18233181 3B]
List of persons praying His Excellency for permission to marry. Thomas Burley, convict per Hadlow, and Rachael Davis, convict per Lord Sidmouth. Requested by Rev. William Cowper, Sydney, 4 Aug 1823.
Sept 1821. Petition for mitigation of sentence. The humble Petition of Thomas Burley Most respectfully sheweth that Your Excellency’s Petitioner was tried at Leicester in March Ond thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen and arrived in this Colony in the ship Hadlow. That Your Petitioner was taken off the stores by Mr John Lowrie as a Government Servant in whose services he now remains and his conduct has been that of an honest and faithful servant and he begs leave to refer to his master as to his general conduct. He therefore most humbly prays Your Excellency will be pleased to take his case into your humane consideration and grant him the Special Indulgence of Receiving a Ticket of Leave And for which mark of Your Excellency’s Goodness he will as in duty bound, ever pray. (Signed) Thos. Burley. To certify that Petitioner has conducted himself well since he first came into my employ, Sept 1821, (Signed) J Laurie.
Colonial Secretary Index. BURLEY, Thomas. Per "Hadlow", 1818 1821 Sep Petition for mitigation of sentence (Fiche 3206; 4/1862 pp.30b-c) 1823 Jul 21 On list of prisoners assigned (Fiche 3290; 4/4570D p.11) 1823 Aug 4 Re permission to marry at Sydney (Reel 6011; 4/3509 p.15) 1824 Jun 16 Assigned to John Bingle (Fiche 3077; 4/1836A No.67A pp.299-302) 1824 Jun 28 Convict servant of John Bingle. To be victualled from the Stores for six months (Reel 6013; 4/3511 p.593)
At Leicester, not fewer than five and twenty prisoners were condemned, and the following left for execution : —lsaac Ward, Sarah Orton, George Jones Thomas Atkins, for forgery; William Barratt, for burglary; and Thomas Burley, for killing sheep. On the latter, judgment is respited until the 18th of May. Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 6 April 1818.
Prison Hulk ship Justitia moored at Woolwich, Date Received 10 June 1818, aged 19, Offence: Killing a sheep, Transported 1 August 1818 Convict Indents: Convicted 23 March 1818, aged 21, Trade: Stocking weaver, Height: 5 feet 6 inches, TOL 31/337 Ticket of Leave No.31/337 dated 22 June 1831, Cancelled 36/677, Received No. 38/1126 Ticket of Leave No.38/1126 dated 10 July 1838 in District of Bathurst Ticket of Leave No 39/18 dated 24 January 1839, Trade: Weaver, In lieu of No.38/1126 dated 10th July 1838, Cancelled. Ticket of Leave Passport No.40/162 dated 28th April 1840, TOL No.39/18, Allowed to enable him to travel between Parramatta and Sydney to attend the markets for 12 months. Pardon 1846-1849 Death Register dated 2 October 1846 (Date of Burial) in Maitland, Remarks: TLeave. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/searchhits_nocopy?id=65&Surname=burley&Firstname=&Alias=&Vessel=Hadlow&Year=&RecordType=&Citation=&Remarks= Conflicting evidence as there is a Conditional Pardon No.47/232 dated 10 April 1847, aged 50.
Empathetic opinions shared with the Levellers/ chartist movement. Sentenced to death having been convicted of killing 19 rams ,property of a loacal farmer in Countesthorpe Leicestershire. Sentance commuuted.