Name: | Mary Burns |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | f |
Date of Birth: | 1830 |
Occupation: | Country servant |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Female median life span was 61 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 http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON15-1-7,364,9,L,80 |
Source description: |
Carol Axton-Thompson on 22nd November, 2013 wrote:
Mary Burns (proper name Brown)was convicted at Limerick on 13/4/1850 for arson of a hay stack. Catharine Byrne also convicted and on board same ship. 15yr sentence. Transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) on the ‘Blackfriar’, arriving 1851.
Aged 21yrs; country servant/wash; 5’2 1/2”; read & write; Roman Catholic; single; Hazel eyes; ruddy complexion; lt brown hair. Native place of birth - Co. Limerick. Sister Hannah at native place.
Assignments of service in Colony.
1850: R. Henry, Govt., Domain, Hobart.
1852: Myers, Liverpool St. Hobart
1858: Bothwell
11/1/1853 delivered of a female child, Margaret at the Cascades Female Factory, Hobart. (No detail found of child in St. Johns Orphanage.)
Application for permission to marry:
John Ward (ex Lady Franklin) 2/2/1852 Westbury
John Holbrook (ex Pestongee Bom) 19/3/1855.
Note: Mary Burn, Burns, Byrne common names, so details would need to be researched to see if it is this Mary.
Carol Axton-Thompson on 22nd November, 2013 made the following changes:
convicted at, term 15 years, voyage, source, firstname, surname, alias1, alias2, alias3, alias4, date of birth 1830, date of death 0000, gender, occupation, crime
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