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William Williams 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 340 |
| 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 Record: https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-2p514 William Williams, Tried at Middlesex G.D., 1 July 1801, 7 years. ---------------------------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 05 March 2020), July 1801, trial of WILLIAM WILLIAMS (t18010701-33). WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Theft > burglary, 1st July 1801. 564. WILLIAM WILLIAMS was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Henry Lord Mulgrave , about the hour of eleven in the night of the 6th of June , and feloniously stealing two cloth coats, value 30s. a great coat, value 10s. a pair of breeches, value 1s. a pair of feather breeches, value 5s. a waistcoat, value 1s. four shirts, value 10s. and nine pair of stockings, value 9s. the property of John Doling . JOHN DOLING sworn. - I am groom to Lord Mulgrave, the prisoner had been a fellow-servant with me in another place; he came to see me on the 6th of June, in Harley Mews , I sleep over the stable: About half past nine in the evening, I went up stairs, and there was a box which I had not locked; I was going to do it, and the prisoner said, you will have plenty of time in the morning to do it; his Lordship was going out of town the next morning; then he and I went out of the stable together, I locked the door after me; we went into Oxford-street together, and then I went to St. James's-square to see some old fellow-servants; I staid about an hour and a half, and when I came back, the lock was hampered; I called to the watchman, took his lantern, and opened the door; I went up stairs, and missed the trunk, containing three cloth coats, two pair of breeches, four shirts, a waistcoat, and nine pair of stockings; I then went into the coach-house with the watchman, and found the doors all fast, and the windows had iron bars across. THOMASON KENDREW sworn. - I am a soldier's wife: On Saturday night, the 6th of June, a little before nine, the prisoner came to our house, No. 4, Dorset Mews; I have watched for him between five and six months; he asked me to let him leave a trunk which he expected out of the country, and I gave him leave; and rather before eleven o'clock, he brought it; I told him to put it in the front room, and he refused, and said, he would take it any where backwards; I told him it would not be safe in the back yard, and he took it down in the cellar, and left it; on Sunday morning he came, and said, he wanted some things out of his box; he went down, and staid almost half an hour in the cellar, with the box; and when he came up, he took nothing with him but a key and a little bit of paper in his hand. and went away; I heard that the runners were after him on Sunday night, and on Monday morning my husband took the box to Marlborough-street. AGNES LITTLE sworn. - On Saturday the 6th of June, at near half past ten o'clock at night, I saw such a man as the prisoner go down the Mews with a trunk upon his shoulder; I live in Harleymews; I cannot say that it was the prisoner, he had such a coat on as he has now. JAMES KENDREW sworn. - I belong to the Lifeguards: About nine o'clock on Saturday night, the 6th of June, the prisoner came and asked if he could leave a box for the night; I said, yes; the next day I heard that he had been taken up on suspicion,and I went to Marlborough-street Mr. Jackson the officer, came back with me for the box. WILLIAM JACKSON sworn. - I am an officer belonging to Marlborough-street, (produces the trunk); I got it from Kendrew's. Mrs. Kendrew. This is the same box. JOHN WARREN sworn. - I apprehended the prisoner on Sunday the 7th, upon suspicion; I know nothing more. Doling. These are my shirts, they are marked J. D; these stockings are mine; the coats, and all the things are mine. Prisoner's defence. I know nothing of the trunk. Q.(To Doling.) How near to Lord Mulgrave's are the stables? - A. It joins; the laundry of the house joins the stables. Q. What is the value of your things? - A.Four pounds. GUILTY, Death , Of stealing the goods, but not of breaking and entering the dwelling-house . First Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Rooke.