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Daniel Crawley was transported on the Calcutta, departing 31st Jan 1803 and arriving 4th Oct 1803 with 305 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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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 341 (170) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Australia, Convict Index, 1788-1868 Name Daniel Crawley Age 28 Birth Year abt 1775 Arrival Year 1803 Arrival State Sorrento Ship Calcutta Occupation Tailor © 1997-2025 Ancestry
Possible Death. Tasmanian Burial Register. Parish of St David, Hobart. https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD34-1-1p003j2k Daniel Crawley, buried 19 Oct 1808, age 36. Ceremony performed by R. Knopwood.
Tasmanian Records. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-1_0164 Per Calcutta 1804, & Ocean. Daniel Crawley, tried Middx Je. Dy. 13 Jan 1802, 7 years. ---------------------------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 March 2023), January 1802, trial of DANIEL CRAWLEY (t18020113-38). DANIEL CRAWLEY, Theft > grand larceny, 13th January 1802. 117. DANIEL CRAWLEY was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 8th of December , a yard of woollen cloth, value 10s. the property of John Pearce , Nicholas Pearce , and Bryce Pearce .(The case was opened by Mr. Const.) NICHOLAS PEARCE sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knapp. I am in partnership with John and Bryce Pearce , my brothers, who are army clothiers ; the prisoner was employed by us as a cutter ; we had lost very large quantities of cloth at different times; suspicion fell on the prisoner at the bar in particular: On Tuesday, the 8th of December, I went to Red-Lion-Square, about seven o'clock in the evening, and, that no suspicion should attach itself to any one in particular, I desired that the whole body of cutters would submit to be searched; the prisoner at first hesitated at coming forward, and I said, if you are honest, you can have no objection to be searched; upon opening his waistcoat, a piece of red cloth was so extremely ingeniously wrapped round him, under his waistcoat, that it was impossible for any human being to have discovered it if he had not been stripped; he said, one of our people had lost a piece for sleeves, and they were very poor, and he mean to give it to them; I put a seal upon the cloth, and delivered it to Mr. Roberts, my clerk.(Mr. Roberts produced the cloth, which was identified by Mr. Pearce.) Mr. Alley. Q. (To Mr. Pearce.) Is it not the custom of the cutter to have a certain quantity of garments to cut out from a certain quantity of cloth? - A. They are to account to us for every inch of cloth; it would be much too dangerous a licence if it were otherwise. The prisoner left his defence to his Counsel. GUILTY, aged 27. Transported for seven years . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.