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Transportation
John Briddane 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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From Evarcounr Quarter Sessions … John Bridane, Bridget Conneely, and Mary Boyle, larceny, to be each transported for seven years. Galway Weekly Advertiser, 15 April, 1837. On Monday morning, Patrick Gallagher, Martin Conneely, Patrick Mallen, and John Bridane, convicts, under sentence of transportation, were committed to the general convict depot, Kilmainham, prior to embarkation for New South Wales. Galway Weekly Advertiser, 22 April 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Briddane, age on arrival, 17, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Galway, 1837, 7 years for Stealing whips. DOB 1820, Native place, Galway Co. Single. Protestant, Labourer.