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John Mccarthy 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
MURDERS. It is our painful duty to record one those atrocious scenes disgraceful to this unhappy country. On Wednesday evening last, Mr. John Collins was proceeding from the fair of Abbeyfeale, on his way home to the residence of his father, he was met by a band of ruffians, one of whom, named Leahy, took up a stone, and (without any provocation) struck him a blow on the temple, of which he died on Friday morning at three o'clock. He was also struck while on his back by miscreant named Carthy, who, we rejoice to hear, is in custody. Those savages in their thirst for blood cared not who they met, murder was their object, and poor Collins fell the innocent victim. What is to appease the feelings of his aged and respectable parents, on this very melancholy occasion? An inquest was held on Saturday, when after the examination of witnesses, one of whom was Patt Hayes, Esq. of Abbeyfeale, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against John Leahy, jun., of Cragg, John Carthy of Abbeyfeale, aided and assisted by Daniel Leahy of Ballycumman. - Limerick Times. Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 9 July 1836. On Thursday last. Constable Clio, and a party of police, arrested and conveyed to Newcastle bridewell, John Leahy, a respectable farmer, from Craig, near Abbeyfeale, charged with the murder of John Collins, on his return home from the last fair of Abbeyfeale. Roscommon Journal, 13 Aug 1836. COUNTY ASSIZES CONVICTIONS AND SENTENCES … To be transported for Life: …. John McCarthy and John Leahy, manslaughter of …. Collins ; … Kerry Evening Post, 18 March 1837. FRUSTRATION OF JUSTICE. Lord Mulgrave has commuted the sentence of seven years’ transportation passed on John Leahy, last county assizes, for killing a respectable farmer the name Collins, Abbeyfeale, to twelve months’ imprisonment. The prisoner was proved on trial to be one of a violent faction in that part of the country, and the Judge (Sergeant Greene) pronounced the homicide to be of a most aggravated nature . Limerick Chronicle. Cork Constitution, 18 April 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. John McCarthy, age on arrival, 40, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Limerick, 1837, Life for Manslaughter. DOB, 1797, native place, Limerick Co. Married, 3 Male, 1 female children. Catholic. Labourer.