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Henry Thompson 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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College-street Police-office.—A Miscellaneous Reader.—A young man, who gave his name Henry Thompson, was committed for trial, charged with having stolen copy of the Spectator, from the shop of Mr. Sullivan, of Anglesea-street. Saunders’s News-Letter, 3 March 1837. City Sessions. Henry Thompson was indicted for stealing book from Mr. Sullivan's shop, in Anglesea-street. Mr. Sullivan proved the book to be his property, and his shopman. identified the prisoner, a man that had been in his employer’s shop a few days before the book in question, (quarto edition of the Spectator) was stolen. He did not see the prisoner steal the book, but missed it a few days after he had been in the shop. Wm. Graut examined—Knew the prisoner the bar; sold witness two or three books about the period thought lost the Spectator; this book among those which prisoner sold him; gave eight shillings for the three books ; marked the book in question for sale, at the price of 7s. 6d.; would have taken less for it; bought thousands of books; kept book-shop, in George’s-street; gave a fair price for the three, which prisoner sold him. The prisoner was found guilty, and, being an old offender, was sentenced to be transported for seven years. Saunders’s News-Letter, 31 March 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Henry Thompson, alias Thomson, age on arrival, 24, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Dublin City, 1837, 7 years for Stealing books. Former conviction, 3 months. DOB, 1813, native place, Dublin. Single. Protestant. Brush maker.