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Andrew Byrne was transported on the Calcutta, departing 19th Apr 1837 and arriving 5th Aug 1837 with 241 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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HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Three young men in the garb of coal porters, named Andrew Byrne, Patrick Smith, and John Ennis, were arraigned under an indictment, charging them with having, the night of (he December in Townsend-street. this city, robbed young gentleman of the town of Roscrea, named Joseph Smith, his watch and some silver coin. The prosecutor, a lad about 16 years of age, deposed that having been on his return to his lodgings in Brunswick-street, the night specified the indictment, from the place where he had dined, had been met in Townsend street by some fellows who demanded money from him, had given them a shilling or so, but they persevered in their demand. They had subsequently taken his watch from him by force. He had then lodged a complaint of the transaction in College-street police-office, and was called up afterwards the course of the night by a policeman, announcing that three fellows had been taken, supposed to have been concerned in the robbery. He identified two of them, and the watch was found on the person of the third, They were found guilty, and sentence of death was recorded. Saunders’s News-Letter, 6 Jan 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Andrew Byrne, alias Burne, Burn, Byrnes, Burns, age on arrival, 19, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Dublin City, 1837, Life for Robbery highway. DOB, 1818, native place, Dublin Co. Single. Catholic. Errand boy.