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Voyage
Transportation
Walter Burke was transported on the Planter, departing 13th Jun 1832 and arriving 15th Oct 1832 with 201 passengers.
Planter (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 351 (176) |
| 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
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Walter Burke, alias Bourke, age on arrival, 28, per Planter (1) 1832, Tried 1831, at Corfu Court Martial, Life for Mutiny. Former convictions, 400 Lashes. DOB, 1804, native place, Tipperary Co. Single, Catholic, Soldier herdsman. Executed at Norfolk Island, 1834.
Norfolk Island THE brig Governor Philip returned from the modern Gomorah on Tuesday last, after a passage of thirteen days ; having made the trip from Sydney in five days. Thirteen desperate men have been executed, pursuant to the sentence of the court lately held on the island ; and, as we are informed, died penitent. Their names were Robert Douglas, Henry Drummond, James Bell, Joseph Buller, Robert Glennie, Walter Burke, Joseph Snell, Michael Andrews, William Groves, Henry Knowles, Thomas Fresh- water, Robert Ryan, and William McCul- lock. They received the spiritual atten- dance of the Rev. Mr. STYLES and the Rev. Mr. ULLATHORNE, according to their respective religious persuasions. Thus have thirteen more human lives been sacrificed to the Moloch—Ven- geance, which dooms men to scenes of horror like that of Norfolk Island. True, these wretched men were, as all others similarly circumstanced on the island are, degraded as low as human beings can be degraded-they well de- served to be cut off from all chances of association with their kind-but are there not modes of punishment to be adopted which will not lead to the commission of still greater crimes than those for which they have been doomed to banishment ? If men are thought worthy to live, why reduce them to a state to avoid which they court death, and in order to ensure the last dread punishment which man can indict, commit new and still more fearful crimes ? This is the natural consequence of the unnatural system pursued at Norfolk Island—a system which, so long as it is persevered in, will tend only to mul- tiply crime, and to provide occcupation for the executioner. Even in the present in- stance, the authorities have been obliged to take measures to prevent new murders. Six men belonging to the gaol-gang at Norfolk Island, who were chiefly instru- mental in preventing the intended revolt of all the prisoners there, by giving timely information of the conspiracy, have been brought up to Sydney,for safety; and such is the deadly hatred entertained against the whole of the gang to which these men belonged, that we shall not be surprised if, in a very short time, there is a necessity for another special commission and more hanging. It is, we understand, the intention of the government to break up the penal esta- blishment at Moreton Bay, should the measure receive the sanction of the Se- cretary of State; we hope it will be fol- lowed by an alteration in the inhuman system upon which Norfolk Island is maintained.
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents Bound Indentures Age; 28 years old EXECUTED; at Norfolk Island - September 1834 The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Thu 16 Oct 1834 Page 2. NORFOLK ISLAND.