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George Scholer was transported on the Calcutta, departing 31st Jan 1803 and arriving 4th Oct 1803 with 305 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.
Calcutta (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 342 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Tasmanian Records. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-2P344JPG Per Calcutta, George Scholer, Tried Middlesex G.D., 2 June 1802, 7 years.
Old Bailey online 440. GEORGE SCHOLER and WILLIAM LEFEVRE , were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 5th of May , a box, value 6d. three hundred and sixty penny-pieces, thirty shillings, and one thousand six hundred and eighty halfpence , the property of Mark Currie . Second Court. Charging them to be the property of John Clarke .(The case was opened by Mr. Raine.) JOHN CLARKE sworn. - I am carman to Mr. Currie; I received a great quantity of halfpence from a public-house, in Bethnal-green; I put them into a box in the cart, and when I got into Wentworth-street, I was stopped by a scavenger's cart; a man came up to me, I cannot say who, and asked me, if I was going into Mr. Brown's, I said, no; I turned my head almost immediately and saw thde rail board of the cart let down, and the box gone; I saw the box again in Susannah Wright 's room, in George yard, which comes up into Wentworth-street; I had the key in my pocket, it contained five pounds worth of copper in penny-pieces, old halfpence, and new halfpence. ANN JENK sworn. - I live at No. 4, George-street, Spiralfields; on Wednesday the 5th of May, I saw the prisoner Scholer lift his hand over the cart, he could not reach the box out of the cart; he then let the tail board down, and lifted it out, he carried it towards George-yard; I did not see the other man. SUSANNAH WRIGHT sworn. - I live at No. 19, George-yard; on Wednesday afternoon, the 5th of May, the prisoner Lesevre came to my house between two and three o'clock in the afternoon; I was washing a few things, and a woman that was with me, heard somebody on the stairs; I opened the room door and saw Lesevre upon the landingplace with a box; he asked me to let him leave it about five or ten minutes, I told him he might and welcome; I asked him if he was one of the young men that was going to sea the next morning, and he said, yes; the box was put in the room up one pair of stairs, he went down stairs, and I saw no more of him. JOSEPH SPARROW sworn. - I live at No. 21, George-yard; on Wednesday the 5th of May, between two and three o'clock, I found the box upon the landing place up two pair of stairs, at No. 19. Q. (To Wright.) Who removed the box up two pair of stairs? - A. I cannot say.( Richard Osman , the officer; produced the box, which was identified by Clarke.) Scholer's defence. Mrs. Jenks is a very bad falseswearing woman, she was tried two or three Sessions ago, for a watch, she keeps a disorderly house; she will swear any man's life away for the sake of the reward. Lesevre's defence. I never was near the house, nor yet in the street till Sunday, when I was apprehended. Scholer, GUILTY , aged 20. Lefevre, GUILTY , aged 27. Transported for seven years . Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Grose.