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Transportation
George Rind 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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| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. |
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NSW Convict Index. George Rind, per Calcutta, 1837, Ticket of Leave, No 41/2170. District, Port Macquarie; Tried, Dublin City.
On Tuesday, a man named James Reinds, a pedlar, was fully committed from College-street office for stealing Bibles and Prayer books out of Donnybrook church in the month of May last, since which time the warrant had been out for his apprehension, but the officers did not discover him until this morning, when they met him walking in Stafford-street, and took him into custody. Statesman and Dublin Christian Record, 13 Oct 1836. STEALING FROM A CHURCH. George Rhynd was indicted for stealing some prayer books from Donnybrook church. The prisoner is man of rather respectable appearance, and, understood, was once an opulent cotton manufacturer in New-street. He stated that a material witness was absent, and at his request the trial was postponed. Saunders’s News-Letter, 18 Oct 1836
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. George Rind, alias Rine, age on arrival, 40, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Dublin City, 1836, 7 years for Felony bibles & prayer books. DOB, 1797, native place, Fermanagh Co. Single. Protestant. Salesman.