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Transportation
John Hall 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 Notes
County of Antrim Assizes. John Mulhalland, Patrick MuIholland, and John Hill, for a burglary in the house of Mrs. Rainey, at Portglenonie, on 3d August. Mary Rainey- Lives at Portglenone ; recollects her house being broken into on the night into on the night of the 3d August; two table-spoons, some halfpence, a small piece of silver, two hanks of boiled yarn, a bottle of whiskey, and some white bread, were stolen. John Dufferin-Knows last witness; went in search of the property next day to an underground cellar of William M'Coy's, which these boys frequented ; found two table-spoons, a three-penny piece of silver, and some halfpence; [articles produced: identifies them] they were rolled up in a carpet and concealed ; did not see prisoners there. Wm. McCoy-Recollects last witness coming to search at his place; he found spoons and halfpence in a wash cellar, in which the prisoners used to sleep; witness had banished them several times, but they came back without his knowledge; identifies the three prisoners ; did every thing in his power to banish them, but they always came in at night. Guilty ; sentence of death recorded-transportation for life. Belfast News-Letter, 14 March 1837. (Other newspaper reports from the time, list John Hill, not John Hall)
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John Hall, age on arrival, 12, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Antrim, 1837, Life for Burglary. DOB, 1825, native place, Antrim Co. Single, Protestant. Errand boy.