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Patrick Doyle 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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CITY CALENDER. … James King, alias Carroll, Patrick Doyle, Thomas Tracy, John Hudson, and John Carthy, assault, with intent to kill ; … Saunders’s News-Letter, 28 Oct 1836. Combination. —On Tuesday, J. Doyle, J. Hudson. T. Tracy, and J.McCarthy, were indicted for maliciously assaulting William Mason, and beating him with sticks with intent to kill; second count set forth that they committed the offence with intent to disable him ; third, with intent to him bodily harm. Mr. Mason. I timber-merchant, described the assault upon him, from the effects of which bis life was in danger for more than ten days. The evidence both sides having been gone through, Judge Perrin charged the jury considerable length, and, after Lour and half’s consideration, they returned verdict of guilty against all the prisoners on the third count, but recommended them strongly to mercy. Dublin Mercantile Advertiser, 7 Nov 1836.
Police Office, —Combination amongst the Sawyers,—Cruel Outrage, A report was brought to the police barracks in Kevin-street, on Tuesday night, that man named William Mason had been beaten in New-street, by number of sawyers. Sergeant Grattan, accompanied by a police force, immediately repaired to the scene of action, where they found that Mr. Mason, who gives employment to sawyers, in his timber yards in Werburgh-street, had been assailed and beaten by twenty persons, who knocked him down, and injured him so seriously, that he was scarcely able to detail the particulars of the occurrence. When the assassins heard that they were pursued, they retreated through Patrick-street, and got into Mr. Teeven’s public house in Ship-street, where ten of them were apprehended by the officers. One of the byestanders pursued a man from the scene of action through the different intermediate streets between New-street and Stephen s green, where he had him arrested by the watchman in Cuffe-street. He first called himself Carroll, and subsequently gave his name as King.— Eleven persons have been arrested—five of whom have been identified and committed Newgate — Their names ate—James King, John Hudson, Patrick Doyle, John M‘Carthy, and Thomas Tracy. The names of the six remaining prisoners, who have been remanded for further examination are—Edward Butler, John Dwyer, Joseph Eustace, Wm. Campbell, Thomas Sullivan, and James Graham. Mr. Mason, who is seventy years of age, was returning from erburgh-street to Harold’s-cross, where he resides, and was being followed by his family in their car, when he was assailed by the prisoners and their companions, with bludgeons. The chief cause assigned for this brutal, unmanly, and daring attack upon an old and defenceless man is, that his assailants charge him with having given employment to “colts,” who worked with him under price. The unfortunate gentleman is now lying in a dangerous state. It is to be regretted that the recent examples made in the cases of the sawyers who assassinated Hanlon in Thomas-street, have not had a more salutary influence upon the bad passions of that body, for amongst no class of workmen does such combination exist as amongst the sawyers this city, the greater portion of whom have “struck” and refused work in the yards of many timber merchants, in consequence of the importation of sawed timber. Saunders’s News-Letter, 1 Sept 1836.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Patrick Doyle, age on arrival, 24, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Dublin City, 1836, Life for Assault with intent to kill. DOB, 1813, native place, Meath Co. Single. Catholic. Sawyer lathe splitter.