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Philip Ryan 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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FRIDAY, FOURTH DAY. Philip Ryan being placed this morning at the bar, again pleaded guilty to the charge of the murder of John Bibby. Sentence not passed. This horrible murder was perpetrated on the 21st June, 1834, now nearly three years ago. Limerick Chronicle, 22 March 1837. I awaited the result of the inquest, to communicate to you the account of a dreadful murder, perpetrated Saturday last. John Bibby accompanied by a relative, Benjamin Bibby, was returning from Cashel, with potatoes, when they were met by four men, near Coolquil. who beat them so unmercifully that John died almost immediately, and his cousin Benjamin lies in hopeless state, but here the tragedy did not terminate. The account of the outrage having been brought to Bibby’s house, his sister and a servant woman hastened to the scene of murder, which was about a mile and a half distant, locking the door of then dwelling. the meantime Nicholas Bibby, father to the deceased, who had been from home returned inebriated and not being able to get into the house, delayed on the roadside, when was attacked and killed by the same ruffians, it is said, who murdered his son. The female servant who accompanied Bibby’s daughter to where her dead brother lay, found the equally unfortunate father near his own door, on her return, and before the car on which was the body of the son had arrived. The verdict of the inquest was, wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. The old man seemed to have been killed by blows of some heavy blunt instrument; was formerly in the police, and I believe had a pension ; he has since collected taxes, and has been told that he had the promise some land, now in the possession of persons under ejectment. Nothing could exceed the sensation produced throughout the whole country by this double murder —every one is loud in disapprobation of it, and it is hoped that justice will speedily overtake the perpetrators of this sanguinary crime. —Tipperary Free Press. Waterford Mail, 2 July 1834. The Lord Lieutenant has offered £100 reward for the brutal murderers of Nicholas and John Bibby, father and son, last Saturday, on the high road, near Cashel; Ballyshannon Herald, 4 July 1834.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Philip Ryan, age on arrival, 25, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Tipperary, 1837, Life for Murder. DOB, 1812, native place, Tipperary Co. Single. Catholic. Labourer.