Samuel Knight

Samuel Knight, one of 300 convicts transported on the Baring, April 1815

Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Samuel Knight
Aliases:	none
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1761
Occupation:	Clothier
Date of Death:	-
Age:	-

Life Span

Male median life span was 51 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Breaking and entering and stealing
Convicted at:	Middlesex Gaol Delivery
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Baring
Departure date:	April, 1815
Arrival date:	7th September, 1815
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 300 other convicts

References

Primary source:	Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 202. 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.

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Community Contributions

Nell Murphy on 18th October, 2019 wrote:

Samuel KNIGHT (along with James KNIGHT (brother), Thomas TYLER, Jane STAMFIELD on 25 May 1814 were charged with break, enter & steal at the business premises of a fur skin dresser. Their defence was that they dealt in this trade. Tyler found not guilty but the others Guilty, death sentence. Samuel and James KNIGHT transported to Australia, Life Sentences, per the ship “Baring” 1815.

Samuel Knight - a clothier, married man with 2 children. Aged 49 yrs. Said to have come to London from the west country.

Samuel subsequently transferred to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), Australia, with his son in 1828 to Port Dalrymple (now George Town) - xxx machinery for Simeon Lord at Sydney. Ref. noted in Convict Conduct Book, VDL.

Penny-Lyn Beale on 10th September, 2021 wrote:

1825 - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. 1825
Name; Samuel Knight
Age; No Details
Class; T. L.
Vessel; Baring - 1815 -Life
Employment/Remarks; CLEARED; our for Hobart Town - November 1823

Convict Changes History

Nell Murphy on 18th October, 2019 made the following changes:

source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 202. Tasmanian Archives. (prev. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 202), date of birth: 1