| Name: | Daniel Stearn |
| Aliases: | none |
| Gender: | m |
| Date of Birth: | 1815 |
| Occupation: | Carter |
| Date of Death: | - |
| Age: | - |
Life Span
Male median life span was 56 years*
* Median life span based on contributions
Sentence Severity
Sentenced to 7 years
| Crime: | Stealing a cap |
| Convicted at: | Suffolk |
| Sentence term: | 7 years |
| Ship: | Surrey or Surry |
| Departure date: | 15th July, 1831 |
| Arrival date: | 26th November, 1831 |
| Place of arrival | New South Wales |
| Passenger manifest | Travelled with 200 other convicts |
| Primary source: | England & Wales Criminal Register 1791-1892 NSW Convict Ship Muster Rolls Related Records 1790-1849 NSW Registry of Convict Application to Marry 1826-1851 |
| Source description: |
Ellen West on 12th June, 2012 wrote:
April 1829 Suffolk Court Sessions DANIEL was charged with Larceny & given 1 Month & was whipped twice
Daniel Stearn was convicted for stealing a cap 6th April 1831 he was 16 yrs old & was sentenced to 7 yrs & 1 month he left England on board the "Surrey" arriving in NSW 26th November 1831 CHARLES KEMP was the Master
Description of Daniel Stearn
HEIGHT 5ft 4 1/2 inchs
COMPLEXION ruddy, fair, freckled.
HAIR light brown,
EYES Light blue
He had a tattoo of a mermaid on the upper part of his left arm
DANIEL could neither read nor write he was a Protestant
He applied for an application to marry Sarah Gallagher 16th May 1841 at East Maitland .Refused on the 7th October 1841,request granted 18th October 1841
1856 Electrol Roll DANIEL is living at Lava Street Warnambool , he was a Carter
Ellen West on 12th March, 2015 wrote:
April 1829 Suffolk Court Sessions DANIEL was charged with Larceny & given 1 Month & was whipped twice
Daniel Stearn was a convict his conviction was for stealing a cap 6th April 1831 he was 16 yrs old & was sentenced to 7 yrs & 1 month he left England on board the “Surrey” arriving in NSW 26 th November 1831 CHARLES KEMP was the Master
Description of Daniel Stearn
HEIGHT 5ft 4 1/2 in
COMPLEXION ruddy, fair, freckled.
HAIR light brown,
EYES Light blue
He had a tattoo of a mermaid on the upper part of his left arm
DANIEL could neither read nor write he was a Protestant
He applied for an application to marry Sarah Gallagher 16th May 1841 at East Maitland .Refused on the 7th October 1841,request granted 18th October 1841
Witness’s at DANIEL & MARGARET RIORDAN’S marriage were EDWARD DAVID EVANS & THOMAS HERRIGAN & MARY KINLEY
Daniel was Baptised 3rd February 1815 Melton Suffolk England
Surry* (later referred to as the Surrey)
Transport: 443 tons. Square rigged ship with an overall length of 117 ft. 6 ins., a breadth above the gunwales of 29 ft. 6 ins, and a draught, when loaded, of 18ft. The vessel was copper-sheathed, and had quarter galleries, with a Minerva bust for a figurehead. She carried a crew of thirty and was armed with fourteen cannons.
When the Surry was originally built at Harwich in 1811 she had two decks with a height between decks of 5ft. 8 ins. However, about 1818, she must have received a major refit - the Shipping Registers after 1819 record the vessel as having three decks.
The Surry had one of the longest careers as a convict transport and she was the only transport to make 11 passages to Australia. She completed her last voyage on reaching Hobart on 11 August 1842.
The Surrey landed 2,177 male and female convicts in Australia and lost 51 men and one woman during her passages, 36 of the men dying during her first, and most notorious voyage, was in 1814 under the command of James Patterson.
Thomas Raine commanded her for the next three voyages (1816, 1819, 1823); he was succeeded by Charles Kemp for four voyages (1829, 1831, 1833, 1834); he was succeeded by George Sinclair as her Master on the ninth and tenth voyages (1836, 1840) and on the last voyage (1842) she was commanded by Henry Innott
1856 Electrol Roll DANIEL is living at Lava Street Warnambool , he was a Carter
I have a copy of his Will dated 16th April 1860
Ellen West on 12th June, 2012 made the following changes:
new convict, term 7, voyage 295, convicted at 5422, crime 110, firstname Daniel, surname Stearn, date of birth 1815-00-00, date of death 1840-12-10
Ellen West on 12th March, 2015 made the following changes:
source: England & Wales Criminal Register 1791-1892 NSW Convict Ship Muster Rolls Related Records 1790-1849 NSW Registry of Convict Application to Marry 1826-1851 (prev. ), date of death: 0000 (prev. 10th December, 1840), gender: m, occupation
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