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Crime
Transportation
James Starkie was transported on the Speke, departing 5th Aug 1826 and arriving 26th Nov 1826 with 156 passengers.
Speke (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/6, Page Number 49 (26) |
| 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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Convict Notes
Hulk Records. HO-9-4-4. Page 24 Justitia Hulk Received 19 July 1826 from Discovery Hulk James Starkie, age 33, Stg 16 bags of 5600 lb wt of cotton, Tried Liverpool, 18 July 1825, 7 years. Transported 26 July 1826. Impudent Robbery.—On Saturday, James Starkie was brought before the Magistrate, charged with stealing sixteen bags of cotton. It appeared that the prisoner had been for some time past occasionally employed as a porter in a warehouse in Jackson's-lane, and on the morning of the 31st ult. he, with assistants, went to the room in which he had been recently employed, and haying unlocked the door, which he accomplished with a false key, proceeded to load a cart with sixteen bags of cotton. The apparent regularity of the transaction excited no suspicion in the minds of other persons who were employed in the rooms in the same warehouse, and the prisoner took the cotton to a room he had hired in Gradwell-street, here he cut some of the old marks, put on new pieces, and in a day or two sent thel bags to the Leeds Union Company to go to Wigan, and six to the Old Quay for Manchester, with the usual regularity of shipping notes, &c. The robbery was discovered the following day - , and through the activity of the police, the cotton has been recovered, and the prisoner is committed to take his trial for the felony. Age (London), 26 June 1825.