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Transportation
John Canty was transported on the Blenheim, departing 27th Jul 1834 and arriving 14th Nov 1834 with 203 passengers.
Built 1845 at Shields. Wood ship of 808 Tons. Register lists of persons transported on the various sailing is still a work in progress, not all are yet listed.
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Convict Notes
FATAL AFFRAY AT EVERGREEN. One of those disgraceful riots by which the so frequently profaned, the public peace and human life endangered, occurred at Evergreen on Sunday evening. At 8 public house in that quarter of the City, kept by a man of the name of Walsh, a party of soldiers, belonging, we understand, to y the 28th, the 36th, the 61st, and the 97th regiments were engaged in drinking and smoking, when the house was entered by a number of persons, who accosted them, and demanded a contribution towards a bonfire with which they intended celebrating the festival of St. John. With this demand the soldiers did not think proper to comply, and having expressed their resolution to that effect, the persons who made the demand, addressed them in terms of insult, and snatched from their mouths the pipes with which they were smoking. This was the signal for an assault of a most ferocious character. The soldiers rose to defend themselves—a general engagement ensued, and, overpowered by numbers, they were driven from the house. When they got into the road, they were assailed with stones, which were thrown in such volleys by the crowd outside that they were compelled to retreat with all possible precipitation. Pursued by their assailants, and maintaining a sort of running fight, they hurried through the adjoining streets until they reached George's Quay. where the affray was observed by Mr. Sheriff Hardy, who communicated with his Worship the Mayor, by whom a messenger was despatched to the barracks for assistance to quell the riot and arrest the rioters. The requisite assistance was instantly granted, and parties of the 28th, 29th and 61st, were soon on their way to the scene of the disturbance. By their expeditious arrival the soldiers were rescued, most, if not all of them, severely beaten, and some of them so much injured that one of the men belonging to the 28th died yesterday, and two others linger in a state so precarious that it is apprehended they will not survive. Cork Constitution, 25 June 1833. City Criminal Court, Friday. Friday Mr Justice Vandeleur entered the Court at half past nine o'clock this morning. In consequence of the expectation generally entertained that the persons charged with the murder of the soldier Reily, at Evergreen, would be put on their trials, the court was thronged by individuals who apparently manifested the deepest interest for the result of the proceedings. John Canty. Patrick Walsh, Patrick Maher, J Collins, Patrick Barry, Patrick Canty. Patrick Maher, John Riordan, and Joseph Box, were then arraigned, John Canty, for the murder of Patrick Reilly, and the others for feloniously aiding and assisting. They severally pleaded not guilty. Dublin Observer, 31 Aug 1833. Eleven convicts left the City Gaol yesterday, for the Hulk Surprise, preparatory to transportation pursuant to their sentences. They were all fellows of the worst character. One of them was the notorious Canty, convicted at the last Assizes for this city of the manslaughter of the soldier Reily at Evergreen. Cork Constitution, 12 Nov 1833.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Canty, alias Canly, age on arrival, 29, per Blenheim I (1) 1834. Tried 1833, at Cork City, Life, for Manslaughter. DOB, 1805, native place, Cork. Married. Catholic. Trade, Kitchen gardener.