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Transportation
James Callaghan was transported on the Surrey Or Surry, departing 14th Jul 1816 and arriving 20th Dec 1816 with 150 passengers.
Built at Harwich in 1811 a square-rigged transport ship of 443 tons and copper lined she had two decks with a height between decks of 5 ft. 8 ins. In 1818, she had a major refit increasing the decks (and convict carrying capacity) to three. She was owned by the London firm of F. & C.F. Mangles.
Surrey Or Surry (generic)References
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Convict Notes
BEGGING IN SYDNEY.-There are few places in world where begging is more inexcusable than in Sydney at the present day, where the young and hale may provide themselves with support by labor, and the old and infirm are, by the generous donations of the public, provided with an Asylum. The public have frequently been cautioned against encouraging the importunities of mendicants at their doors by mistaken acts of charity, as every day furnished new proofs of its impropriety, from the intoxicated state of numbers of objects to which benevolence had become a dupe. Real objects of charity gladly avail themselves of the blessings of die institution, while those of vicious principles continue as a pest on the streets, and arc frequently detected in pilfering from the unwary. As the evil seems to be on the increase, the exercise of an Act for the suppression of vagrancy will become necessary. While writing on this subject, it may not be unseasonable to notice the following fact : An old man, of wretched appearance, named James Callaghan, called at the shop of a baker named Carmichael, in Kent-street, on Monday morning last, and while a person in the shop was in the act of relieving him, he seized a quartern loaf, and made off with it, but was followed and lodged into custody, and committed for the offence. Sydney Herald, 21 Nov 1833.
Certificate of Freedom obtained during the last week: Surry (2) – James Callaghan. Sydney Gazette, 1 May 1823. This sounds as though it may be the same person: James Callaghan, free, well known to the police officers as a common mendicant, and depraved character, and who had been found in a cart in the Market-place, at a late hour of the night, in company with some dead pigs ; one of them he had removed, and was in the act of handing over to some accomplices on the spot, who, when he was detected, very suddenly decamped, was sentenced to the gaol, at the house of correction for 2 months. Sydney Gazette, 25 Aug 1825.
Irish Convict Database. James Callaghan, age 49, per ship Surry I (2) 1816;Tried at Kilkenny Co. 1816, native of Limerick, trade- dealer labourer. James Callaghan was sent to Moreton Bay penal settlement, arriving there 2 June 1826. Moreton Bay Convict Register James Callaghar, Surry 2, tried at Kilkenny Co, Mar 1816, 7 years. Labourer. Colonial sentence: Quar. Sess. Sydney, 7 Feb 1826, 3 years for Felony. To Sydney, 24 Feb 1829. Description: James Callaghan, age 63, native of Kilkenny, 5ft 4 ½ . Dark complexion, brown hair, brown eyes. Quarter Sessions. (Tuesday). James Callaghan, a miserable looking old man, was found guilty of stealing three table cloths, three pair of stockings, and a copper teakettle, from Captain Logan, 57th regt. on the 2d of February. Sentenced to be transported for three years to a penal settlement. The Australian (Sydney)Thurs 9 Feb 1826. James Colligan was indicted for stealing a copper tea-kettle, three breakfast table cloths, and other articles, the property of Captain Logan of the 57th Regiment, on the 2d day of February. George Jilks, a constable, deposed, that he met the prisoner with the property in the street, at an early hour in the morning ; that suspecting that he had not come honestly by it, and his own account being unsatisfactory, he took him into custody. Captain Logan identified the property as his. —Guilty, To be transported for 3 years. Sydney Gazette, 8 Feb 1826.
James Callaghan was transported to New South Wales on the "Surrey" 1816. Transferred from Sydney to Newcastle. 6mths gaol with hard labour. From Limerick, Ireland.