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James Walsh 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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At the Dublin Commission, Monday, James Walsh was convicted of receiving a silver salt cellar, the property of Robert Ponsonby Tottenham, Bishop of Clogher, and sentenced to transportation for seven years. Globe, 15 April 1837. James Walsh was indicted for feloniously receiving silver salt cellar, the property of the Hon. Robert Ponsonby Tottenham, bishop of Clogher. From the evidence of the Bishop of Clogher’s house steward it appeared, that robbery was committed in his Lordship’s house the night of the 19th March, 1836, some person or persons, who did not get into the house by burglary, as there was not any mark of violence on any of the doors or windows. The cellar in question was stolen along with other property on that occasion.—The Jury brought out verdict of guilty, accompanied recommendation of mercy. The prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Dublin Evening Packet, 13 April 1837.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. James Walsh, alias Welsh, age on arrival, 23, per Calcutta II, 1837. Tried at Dublin, 1837, 7 years for Stolen plate in possession. DOB, 1814, native place, Slane, Meath Co. Single. Catholic. Labourer.