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Transportation
Samuel Dukes was transported on the Mangles, departing 29th Mar 1820 and arriving 7th Aug 1820 with 192 passengers.
ManglesReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 277 (140) |
| 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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Old Bailey Online SAMUEL DUKES. JOHN JONES. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 9th September 1818. Text type Trial account Defendants SAMUEL DUKES, JOHN JONES Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 9th September 1818 Reference Number t18180909-15 Verdicts Guilty, Guilty Punishments Transportation 1076. SAMUEL DUKES and JOHN JONES were indicted for stealing, on the 28th of August , one tea spoon, value 4s.; two bottles, value 4d.; one pint of spruce beer, value 6d., and 1lb., of cheese, value 11d. , the goods of Mary Jost . MARY JOST . I am a widow , and live at the corner of King Edward-street, in Bridewell Precinct . I keep a chandler's shop . On the 28th of August, about seven o'clock in the evening, the prisoners, and another boy, came into my shop for a bottle of spruce beer and some bread, when I was going to draw the beer they said they would not have it, and began to push each other about; Dukes pushed the boy who has escaped into the parlour; my tea-spoons were on the table, he took them off, and while I went into the parlour I saw Jones take the spruce beer and cheese off the counter, and all three ran out; I ran after them, calling out stop thief, but they got away-in a few minutes Mr. Smith brought the prisoners back. I found the cheese in the road. THOMAS OAK SMITH . I am a glass merchant. I saw the two prisoners in Bridge-street, opposite King Edward-street; Mrs. Jost said her shop had been robbed, I followed the prisoners, and heard one of them say, "which way did he run?" the other said, "what a crowd there is round the door." I seized them, and asked where the third boy was, who had got the spoons? they said they did not know him. I said they were in company with him. JONES'S Defence. I knocked down the cheese, and ran away. JONES - GUILTY . Aged 15. DUKES - GUILTY . Aged 15. Transported for Seven Years . London Jury, before Mr. Common Sergeant.