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John Boyd was transported on the Calcutta, departing 19th Apr 1837 and arriving 5th Aug 1837 with 342 passengers.
HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley (1795), converted to a Royal Navy ship. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport. She also transported convicts to Australia. The French Magnanime captured Calcutta in 1805. In 1809, after she ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads and her crew had abandoned her, a British boarding party burned her. In 1803 the Calcutta sailed into Port Phillip bay where at least 4 convicts escaped , in Sydney in April 1804 it was reported that 8 had died on the trip. Of the four known escapees one was shot on escape, 2 turned back after 2 days to reattach to the group at the camp in bay before the boat left , one continued on ...into Australia's history books. At least 13 convicts were transferred on to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Australia.The ship also carried officers, wives and free settlers.
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John Boyd, for stealing a ewe, at Drumbo, on the 16th January, the property of John Sloan. John Sloan lost a ewe on the January; was taken out of witness’s cow-house; went, in the morning to let out his three sheep, and found only two; saw it again at the Police-office, Belfast; knew it marks on it; it had two little black marks behind the ear, and a little of the wool, on the rump, shorter that the rest; prisoner lived servant with witness, and left it on the 13th ; saw the prisoner again in the Police-office ; there was a tow-rope on the sheep’s neck, but cannot tell it was of the kind of tow in witness’s house. Thomas Stevenson, watchman, in Belfast, was on duty on that morning, and saw the prisoner at Castle-lane, Montgomery’s market; had a sheep with him, and witness suspecting him, took both to the Police-office; saw Sloan afterwards, about two o’clock, and delivered up the sheep to him; witness asked prisoner where he brought the sheep from and he said from Malone ; said it was his own, and that was taking it butcher in Corn-market, but could not tell his name. Guilty, to be transported for life. Newry Examiner, 11 March 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Boyd, alias Boyde, age on arrival, 24, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Down, 1837, 7 years for Stealing sheep. DOB, 1813, native place, Belfast Antrim Co. Single. Protestant. Labourer.