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Transportation
John Ryan was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Convict Notes
This convict is described also in a duplicate entry on this Website.
Whilst on Norfolk Island, John married Sarah Wooley, 5th November 1791. The couple had four children: Elizabeth 1792, Mary 1796, John 1798 and Sarah 1800. John died in 1815 but several of the children can be located on the 1828 census, with their husbands and families.
John Ryan was tried at Old Bailey, London on 14 January 1784 for stealing clothing with a value of 13 shilling. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17840114-7-defend135&div=t17840114-7#highlight He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 23 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as silk weaver. He died in 1815 Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “in general tolerably well behaved but troublesome at times”.Accused of theft of food and sentenced on 27 February 1788 to receive 300 lashes, but was forgiven.