Name: | Catharine Burns |
Aliases: | Catherine Burns |
Gender: | f |
Date of Birth: | 1836 |
Occupation: | Country servant |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Female median life span was 58 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 15 years
Crime: | Arson |
Convicted at: | Limerick |
Sentence term: | 15 years |
Ship: | Blackfriar |
Departure date: | 24th January, 1851 |
Arrival date: | 29th May, 1851 |
Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 188 other convicts |
Primary source: | Tasmanian Archives - convicts:Conduct Record, Indent, Colonial Family. Permission to marry ref. 52/1/7 pg 154. Newspapers online http://trove.nla.gov.au |
Source description: |
Carol Axton-Thompson on 15th December, 2013 wrote:
Catharine Burns was convicted at Limerick on 13/04/1850 for arson - setting fire to hay. 15yr sentence. Transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) on the ‘Blackfriar’, arriving 29/05/1851.
Gaol Report: 1st conviction, very good.
Ship Surgeon’s Report: very good.
Roman Catholic; single; aged 21yrs; country servant; 4’11”; dark complexion; dk blue eyes; dk brown hair; can read.
Native Place: Co. Limerick
Brother: Moses, in America.
Assignments in Colony:
New Town Farm
P. Snape, New Town
19/02/1853: delivered of a male child, James, at Cascades Female Factory, Hobart.
Application for permission to marry - recorded as “Catherine Burns & John Godsill”. Godsill transported on the St. Vincent.
25/05/1854: married John Godsell (born 1831). Ref. 759/1854-37.
Listed as a Colonial Family.
17/10/1854: Ticket of Leave
22/04/1856: Conditional Pardon
21/04/1876: Hobart Court - Larceny. 3mths hard labour.
31/08/1909: Approved for Old Age Pension.
Carol Axton-Thompson on 15th December, 2013 wrote:
31/01/1878: Hobart Court. SLY GROG SELLING. -Propsting v. Godsell. John and Catherine Godsell were charged with having, on the 10th day of January, sold a bottle of ale, not being the holders of licences. - Mr. Crisp appeared for the defendants, who pleaded not guilty.
The defendant was fined £20 and the costs of the case, or in default, three months’ hard labour.
The fine was paid.
(Mercury newspaper 2 Feb 1878)
Carol Axton-Thompson on 14th December, 2013 made the following changes:
convicted at, term 15 years, voyage, source, firstname, surname, alias1, alias2, alias3, alias4, date of birth 1836, date of death 0000, gender, occupation, crime
Carol Axton-Thompson on 15th December, 2013 made the following changes:
source, alias1
Carol Axton-Thompson on 15th December, 2013 made the following changes:
source
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