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James Taylor 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 337 (168) Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' |
| 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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The Lancaster James Taylor: Lancaster Assizes. There are forty-one prisoners to take their trials, viz. … James Taylor, for stealing a black gelding, the property Allen Beckett, senior, of Appleton, Cheshire. Lancaster Gazette, 28 Aug 1802. Lancaster. ... James Taylor, for horsestealing ; ... — Death. Lancaster Gazette, 4 Sep 1802. Nicholas Sherlock, convicted at our last assizes of highway-robbery, and Elias Gibson, for forgery, are left for execution, and the other convicts who received sentence death were reprieved before the Judge left the town. Lancaster Gazette, 11 Sep 1802. -------------------------------------------------- Hulk Records. Portsmouth. HO-9-8_1. page 51/52 Received six from Lancaster, 19 Nov. James Taylor, age 20, Horse stealing, Tried at Lancaster, 28 Aug 1802, NSW 14 years, Calcutta. -------------------------------------------------- According to the hulk record, this James Taylor would have been born 1782.
A second James Taylor was sent on Calcutta, he was a soldier court martial London for offence Gibraltar. He was assigned to Rev Knopwood, he married Mary Ann Drake in Sydney 1811 died 1820, fathered the children listed here by Ian
The same James (Taylor) convict 14years from HMS CALCUTTA 1803 free by servitude may have married in 1811 Mary Ann (Drake free by servitude 1818) convict 7years from CANADA 1810 & produced 5children. 1.James (Taylor) was born in 1811. 2.George (Taylor) was born in 1813. 3.John (Taylor) was born in 1814. 4.William (Taylor) was born in 1818 & baptised in 1819 age13months at St Phillips Sydney. 5.James (Taylor) was born in 1822. Mary Ann (Drake) has an entry on this Website
From "Convicts Unbound: The story of the Calcutta Convicts and their settlement in Australia".M.Tipping - ISBN 0 670 90068 0. p316. Extracted sentences from biography entry for James Taylor tried at Lancaster Summer Azzizes. "This James Taylor was vctualled at Port Phillip for only 35 days. He would have been one of the escapees who did not return. Collins reported in the General Orders, 28 July, 1805, that James had perished at Port Phillip."