Name: | Thomas Kiff |
Aliases: | none |
Gender: | m |
Date of Birth: | 1807 |
Occupation: | Ploughman |
Date of Death: | 6th March, 1843 |
Age: | 36 years |
Life Span
Male median life span was 56 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 10 years
Crime: | Pocket picking |
Convicted at: | Hertford, Liberty of St Albans Quarter Sessions |
Sentence term: | 10 years |
Ship: | Earl Grey |
Departure date: | 4th October, 1842 |
Arrival date: | 14th January, 1843 |
Place of arrival | Van Diemen's Land |
Passenger manifest | Travelled with 263 other convicts |
Primary source: | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/13, Page Number 231 (117) |
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. |
D Wong on 18th May, 2017 wrote:
Thomas Kiff was 33 years old on arrival, he was transported along with is brother, Robert, who was also on board - they were transported for picking pockets and stealing 9/- from a man in a disorderly house.
Thomas was 5’5 1/4” tall, dark complexion, dark brown hair and whiskers, hazel eyes.could read, married with 2 children - wife Susan at native place of St. Albans.
Surgeons Report Character: very good; sick.
6/3/1843: Thomas died at H.M. Colonial Hospital, Hobart.
D Wong on 18th May, 2017 made the following changes:
date of birth: 1807 (prev. 0000), date of death: 6th March, 1843 (prev. 0000), gender: m, occupation, crime
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