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Sentence of death passed on Burrell for robbery in the dwelling house of Samuel Adair on 22 November 1829
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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William Ryan per Medina, in the service of government charged with theft. The sentry on duty on the wharf yesterday states I was on my post yesterday and saw the prisoner secrete a pair of shoes amongst the coals. I reported the circumstance to the chief constable. I am positive the prisoner is the man who hid the shoes. The chief constable states - in consequence of the report of the sentry I searched amongst the coals and found a pair of slop shoes which were immediately owned by Benjamin Burrell. Benjamin Burrell a prisoner of the crown states...I was on the wharf yesterday waiting for the passage boat to take me up the river. I sat down on a stone and laid my shoes beside me, in a few minutes they were gone. The shoes I afterwards saw in the chief constables hands are mine.. William Ryan sentenced to 50 lashes and to work in the gaol gang until further orders
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Servant to J. Reid of Hunter River
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Executed. Buried in Glebe Cemetery
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Absconded from service of James Reid. Charged with robbery. Description - Ploughman aged 25 from Essex. 5'4"; dark grey eyes, brown hair, fresh freckled compl.,
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4009A]; Microfiche: 656
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Benjamin Burrell age 20. Ploughman from Essex. Tried at Chelmsford 2 August 1824. Sentenced to transportation for life. Very well behaved on the voyage out. Assigned to Lieut. James Reid on arrival. Note - brother of John Burrell who arrived on the same ship
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John and Benjamin
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Maitland Burial Registry
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Three men Sharpe, John Burrell and Benjamin Burrell were executed by order of the Supreme Court and were buried on 30 April 1830
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John and Benjamin
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UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books
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John Burrell age 19 and Benjamin Burrell age 23 sentenced to transportation for life for burglary. Admitted to the hulk Leviathan from Chelmsford on 2 August 1824 and transferred to the Norfolk for transportation to NSW on 4 April 1825
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Burrell (Executed)
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Executed for burglary aged 30