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Summary

Born
Jan 1757
Conviction
Highway robbery
Departure
May 1787
Arrival
Jan 1788
Death
Oct 1794
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Personal Information

Name: Simon Burn
Gender: Male
Born: 1st Jan 1757
Death: 5th Oct 1794
Age at death: 37
Occupation: Weaver

Crime

Crime: Highway robbery
Convicted at: Devonshire, Exeter Assizes
Sentence term: 7 years

Voyage

Departed: 13th May 1787
Ship: Friendship
Arrival: 21st Jan 1788
Place of Arrival: New South Wales

Transportation

Simon Burn was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.

This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.

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Eric Harry Daly avatar
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on 12th January 2013

Simon Burn was tried at Exeter, Devon on 11 August 1783 for highway robbery with a value of 39 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Friendship aged about 30 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as stocking weaver. He died in 17 Partner in the original crime was John Haydon.Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.Murdered by a neighbour while trying to protect the woman with whom the neighbour was living.Married Frances Anderson on 10 February 1788.