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Transportation
Oliver Gallagher 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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| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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Convict Notes
Donegal Assizes. Hugh Dugan, Charles M'Ginley, Oliver Gallagher, and John Paul, charged with a violent assault on Thomas Humes, so as to endanger his life. Guilty.—Sentence not passed. Northern Whig, 23 March 1837. Oliver Gallagher, Hugh Dugan, and John Paul, for aggravated assault Thomas Hume and his son. Guilty— Gallagher, to transported for seven years, John Paul, imprisoned twelve months, and Hugh Dugan six months, and hard labour. Londonderry Sentinel, 25 March 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Oliver Gallagher, age on arrival, 30, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Donegal, 1837, 7 years for Assault malicious. DOB, 1807, native place, Donegal Co. Single. Catholic. Labourer.