Name: | James Coffee |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1828 |
Occupation: | Shoemaker's boy |
Date of Death: | - |
Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 57 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
Crime: | Stealing fowls |
Convicted at: | Central Criminal Court |
Sentence term: | 7 years |
Ship: | Hindostan |
Departure date: | 5th October, 1840 |
Arrival date: | 19th January, 1841 |
Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 208 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 226. Tasmanian Archives. |
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. |
Nell Murphy on 9th July, 2016 wrote:
James COFFEE was convicted at the CCC, London on 6 Jan 1840 for stealing a goose, from Mrs. Cook’s poultry business in Princes St. Westminster. A previous offence for “being out all night” and stealing clothes and shoes, belonging to his master - Mr. Joseph Stone, a Shoemaker - then aged 13years and had been in this employ approx. 2 years. 1 month’s confinement.
(Note James was only 14yrs of age.) 7 yr transportation sentence.
Transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)per the ‘Hindostan’ arriving 19 Jan 1841.
Aged 14yrs; labourer shoemaker; 4’6 1/4”; can read & write; Roman Catholic; fair complexion; light brown hair; blue eyes.
Native place - Strand, London.
VDL: 2 year’s Probation Period. Station Gang: Point Peur (a reformatory place for young offenders in the Colony)
4 Jan 1844: Misconduct. 7 days solitary confinement.
5 Mar 1844: Insolence. 7 days solitary confinement.
14 Aug 1845: Disorderly conduct. 7 days solitary confinement.
18 Oct 1845: Absent, without leave. 3 days solitary confinement.
1845: noted that he could earn his living as a bricklayer.
1 Sept 1846: Ticket of Leave granted.
6 Jan 1847: Certificate of Freedom granted.
Nell Murphy on 9th July, 2016 made the following changes:
source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 226. Tasmanian Archives. (prev. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 226), date of birth:
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