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James Kirk was transported on the Larkins, departing 24th Jul 1817 and arriving 22nd Nov 1817 with 250 passengers.
1829 Voyage - Ship; Larkins, Captain Campbell, from Cork the 10th August, with 195 male prisoners. A Surgeon Superintendent, P. Sprout, Esquire. Arrived; 22 December 1829. Recapitulation; Mustered; 196. Died on Voyage; 3. Disembarked; 1. Total; 200
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 363 (183) |
| 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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Hulk Record HO-9-7_5 page 3/42 Bellerophon Received twenty Five prisoners from Newgate, 5 May 1817. James Kirk, age 19, Felony, Tried Middlesex 16 April 1817, Life, Disch’d 4 July 1817, Larkin. NSW.
To Tasmania per Ship: Admiral Cockburn Trial; 16 April 1817 CON13-1-1/CON13-1-1P234 Aged; 22 years old Trade; Errand Boy Height; 5 ft 3 1/4 in Eyes; Brown an blemish on left, Dark Brown hair THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE OLD BAILEY JAMES KIRK. PETER FLANNAGAN. Theft; pocketpicking. 16th April 1817. 706. JAMES KIRK and PETER FLANNAGAN were indicted for stealing, on the 4th of March , one handkerchief, value 3s., the goods of Thomas Brown , from his person ................ KIRK - GUILTY . Aged 19. Transported for Life . FLANNAGAN- NOT GUILTY . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Common Sergeant.
Supreme Criminal Court.— (Friday, Dec.. 7, 1827.) George Lacy, Samuel Measures, John Ward, John. Maguire, John McMillan, William Jenkins, James Kirk, and James Reed, the nine misguided and unhappy men who were brought up from Macquarie Island last week, charged with the murder of a constable named George Rex,were this day put upon their trial. - It appeared that these men were prisoners in the small island or penitentiary contiguous to the larger one. On the night of the 17th Nov. they contrived a plan to escape. They seized upon the constable Cook and other six in number, who they thought would prevent them. Having bound and gagged them in the most cruel manner, they placed them in such situation among the rocks on the Islands, as to prevent them from communicating with each other; They then began with Rex,-whom three of them took and pushed into the water, where they held him till he was dead, while the other six were looking on. Having constructed a raft of the tables, beds, &c. which they could procure, they all embarked with the intention of making their escape to the main ; but when they had got into deep, water they found it sinking with them, and they returned again to shore. Only three then went on the raft, and succeeded in getting among the woods on the main, where, however, on the alarm being given, they were promptly pursued and apprehended; All these transactions were. distinctly seen by those whom they had bound and placed in different situations on the island, and their case was clearly and satisfactorily Proved.--, This painful trial lasted the whole of Friday and Saturday, till a very late hour, and when the Jury returned their verdict of Guilty, His Honor the Chief Justice, almost overcome by the lamentable and unexampled spectacle of nine human beings convicted of so cold blooded a murder, passed the awful sentence of death upon them. The Australian, 4 Jan 1828. VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. Murders. Another most dreadful murder was perpetrated at Macquarie Harbour on the 17th of October last, the body of Constable Geo. Rex, nine men—namely, John Ward, Samuel Measures, William Jenkins, James Head, Thomas Williams, James Kirk, John M‘Mallen, John and George Lacy, bolding him under water until was suffocated. The whole of the prisoners were brought to Hobart Town, tried, and convicted; and on the 17th of December they all underwent the dreadful penalty of the crime of murder. Mayo Constitution, 4 Sep 1828.