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98537
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1853 12 March
Place: Hinton
Source: MM
Details: Resided in Hinton. Accompanied Skelton Head to the Hanging rock gold diggings. Returned to Hinton but died soon after


99044
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1853 13 April
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Pleaded guilty to stealing two coats, a waistcoat and trousers belonging to Michael Doran. Sentenced to 12 mths on the roads


100229
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Wood., W. Allan., 'Dawn in the Valley', the Story of Settlement in the Hunter River Valley., Wentworth books, Sydney, 1972
Details: pp., 220 -21


110014
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1842 11 June
Place: Maitland Quarter Sessions
Source: SG
Details: Free by servitude. Sentenced to 2 years in irons for larceny


130231
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1853 9 March
Place: West Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Employed by tailor Michael Doran. Committed for trial for stealing clothing belonging to Doran


137944
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1854 4 October
Place: Maitland Quarter Sessions
Source: MM
Details: John Burns found not guilty of obtaining a pair of trousers and shirts from Ann Upwood and money from her husband Edward Upwood on the false pretence that he was employed by Thomas William Jackson. Witnesses Adam Stout, William Ross and John Dixon


141569
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 1867
Place: Bishops Bridge
Source: Baillier's Post Office Directory p.44
Details: Squatter


180048
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 25 October 1844
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions Letter Book
Details: Letter 44/171. Correspondence re John Burns, free by servitude, who was committed for trial on a charge of larceny under the value of 5 pounds


180359
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: -
Date: 31 March 1848
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions Letter Book
Details: Margaret Harlock, Ticket of leave holder of Newcastle. Committed for trial. Correspondence re depositions of witnesses Mary Munton, Richard Roe and John Burns


181916
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Ann and Amelia 1825
Date: 12 June 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: John Burns, in government service, charged with entering a hut in the day time intending to commit a robbery. Patrick Hannan, states I a government night watchman. In the day time I stop at a hut belonging to Daniel Tyndal, a free man. His hut has been frequently robbed within these few months of trifling articles. On Friday last, I was lying in the loft on my bed, Tyndal had gone out and had locked the door outside. It was in the afternoon. I heard som person at the door apparently wrenching the lock and after a pause Burns entered and laid the lock on the table. I then asked him what he wanted there - he replied - he had brought a lock which he had found lying at the door. ......The prisoner states - I wanted to see a stockman who usually stops at Tyndalls hut. I went there and found the padlock lying on the ground before the door. I took it into the house and Hannan detained me. John Burns sentenced to six months in the gaol gang (NB. There was no prisoner by the name of John Burns on the Ann and Amelia. There was a Jeremiah Burnes; a Darby Byrnes and a Patric Byrnes who all arrived on the Ann and Amelia)


181925
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Ann and Amelia 1825
Date: 21 June 1826
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
Details: John Burns per ship Ann and Amelia, serving in the gaol gang, charged with having a cheese in his possession dishonestly obtained. Corporal Lane (Buffs), states - On the 19th June I was standing on the wharf, I saw the prisoner coming from where some packages stood. He had a cheese in his possession which induced me to detain him. I examined the packages amongst them there was a cask containing cheese, the head of the cask was loose. The prisoner states - the cask fell on its bilge and the cheese rolled out. I picked it up being very hungry. Sentenced to 50 lashes


31713
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Asia 1822
Date: 1828
Place: Patrick Plains
Source: 1828 Census
Details: Shoemaker assigned to John Howe


121956
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Asia 1837
Date: 1842 22 July
Place: Scone
Source: GG
Details: Granted Ticket of Leave


185797
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Born in the colony
Date: 29 October 1858
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book - State Archives NSW; Roll: 757
Details: Born at Hinton NSW. Shoemaker. Sent to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Sentenced to 14 days imprisonment


142613
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Earl Grey 1836
Date: 1837
Place: Brisbane Water
Source: GRC
Details: Age 23. Tried in Co. Mayo. Assigned to Peter Fagan


125986
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Hive 1835
Date: 1836 27 July
Place: Paterson
Source: GG 1836
Details: Apprehended after absconding from James Phillips


131072
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Hive 1835
Date: 1837 21 June
Place: Paterson
Source: GG
Details: Apprehended after absconding from J. Phillips


131092
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Hive 1835
Date: 1837 4 June
Place: Paterson
Source: GG
Details: Absconded from J. Philips 24 May 1837


169609
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Java 1833
Date: 4 April 1848
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: Gaol Entrance Books. State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757 (Ancestry)
Details: Tailor from Wicklow. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Warialda under sentence of 6 months confinement


184968
Surname: Burns
First Name: John
Ship: Mangles 1826
Date: 1826
Place: -
Source: Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4011]; Microfiche: 660
Details: Tinman age 30 from Co. Clare. Married with 2 children. Tried in Limerick in July 1825 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing copper. Well behaved on the voyage out. May have been assigned to James Glennie at Hunter River on arrival