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Thomas Tarratt 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.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 339 (169) |
| 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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Convict Notes
1822 - Marriage. Hobart. 16 April 1821 Rebecca Hooper, aged 31 years old. Ship; Friendship Thomas Terrett, aged 33 years old. Free
Tasmanian Records. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-2P449JPG Per Calcutta, Thomas Tarratt, Middlesex G.D. 15 April 1801, 7 years. --------------------------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 16 March 2023), April 1801, trial of THOMAS TARRATT (t18010415-25). THOMAS TARRATT, Theft > housebreaking, 15th April 1801. 318. THOMAS TARRATT was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Thomas Moore , no person being therein, about the hour of three in the afternoon of the 25th of February , and stealing a rifle barrelled gun, value 4l. a fowling piece, value 30s. a pair of pistols, value 30s. a silver tea ladle, value 2s. a silver teastrainer, value 1s. and a plated milk ladle, value 1s. the property of the said Thomas . THOMAS MOORE sworn. - I keep a house on Wilsden-green ; I was in town at the time. CHRISTOPHER MARTIN sworn. - I had the care of the prosecutor's house: I went out on the 25th of February, about eleven in the morning; I fastened the door and windows, and left nobody at all in the house; I returned about ten minutes before four; I found the back door wide open, and every thing moved about; I found the staple of the door bent, and the lock drawn. Q. Did you know the prisoner? - A. Yes; I have a daughter that lives with his father; I missed a rifle-barrelled gun and a pistol, that was all I missed at that time. GEORGE COLEMAN sworn. - I took the prisoner; he had another boy with him about thirteen years of age, that made his escape; the prisoner had a rifle barrelled gun, and some things in his pocket, which the watchman took from him; I am a porter at Lady Salisbury's; I happened to be at Wilsden-green, and I stopped the prisoner about four miles from the prosecutor's house; the other boy had the other gun, (produces them both); the prisoner said he had brought it from Harrow; the other boy said he had brought it from Greenwich, and afterwards said a man gave them to him in Cavendish-square; they were at that time coming towards Cavendish-square; it was then nigh upon six o'clock. FRANCIS RICKETTS sworn. - I was with the last witness; I assisted in taking the boy; I know no more than he does. RICHARD MOAY sworn. - I am a watch-house keeper of Mary-le-bonne; when the prisoner was brought to me to the watch-house, I searched him, and found a brace of pistols in his coat pocket, a tea strainer, a caddle ladle, and a milk ladle. (Produces them). Mr. Moore. I had not slept in the house since before Christmas; Martin takes care of the house; I had been about three days before, and seen all these things; the pistols are worth a guinea and a half; the gun I would not take four or five guineas for; if it was offered me; I went down afterwards, and found the tea-chest, out of which this tea ladle was taken, broke to pieces; I know all these things to be mine. Q. I put it to you as a man of candour; do you think it possible that such a boy as that could make use of force sufficient to break this door open? - A. I will tell you why; if it had been a short instrument, he could not have done it for want of purchase, but there was a garden-spade near the door, and it having a long handle, would give a purchase sufficient for such a boy to do it. Q. Then you think it might have been done by such a boy as that? - A. I am sorry to say I have no doubt about it. Prisoner's defence. I was not near the house at all; the other boy gave them to me. GUILTY, aged 12. - Of stealing the goods, but not of breaking and entering the dwelling-house . Transported for seven years. Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Heath.