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Thomas Delany 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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Convict Death Index. Thomas Delaney, per Calcutta, Date of Burial, 7 May 1850. Age 66; Invalid Establishment, Parramatta.
Sheep-Stealing. Thomas Delany was indicted for stealing a sheep and ewe, the property of Thomas Brady; and, by the second count of the indictment, for stealing a sheep and ewe from James Brady, off the lands of Irwinstown, in the month of January last. Guilty. The prisoner said he did not steal the sheep ; he was cutting bushes and found them; he had no call to them, and it was too bad he should sufferer. ... The Pilot, 12 April 1837. Commission – Yesterday. STEALING SHEEP. Thomas Delany was then placed the bar, charged with having stolen four sheep from Thomas and James Brady, at Everstown, on the 6th  or 7th January last. A man named Eustace deposed that he saw four skins in the possession of a police constable named Wilkinson, which he identified by some marks as being Brady's property. Wilkinson stated that he was stationed in Ballysare Eustace, and being on patrole on the night in question, he met the prisoner with a bag on his shoulder which, upon examination, he found it was mutton, and then took him into custody; the skins were also in the sack. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for life. Freeman’s Journal, 11 April 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Thomas Delany, alias Delaney, age on arrival, 53, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Dublin, 1837, Life for Stealing sheep. DOB, 1784, native place, Queens Co. Married, 2 male, 4 female children. Catholic. Labourer.