Catherine Byrne

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iain Frazier on 12th January 2026

Family connections for Catherine (Byrne) are: BYRNE Catherine (Byrne) arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 12 1801 after a voyage of 6.5months on Fleet ship NILE. She was sent to Norfolk Island, perhaps on SUGAR CANE. She had a relationship with Joseph Simmonds (Chipman) & produced maybe 7children. She, as (Burn), is recorded as on stores in February 1805 on Norfolk Island. She left Norfolk Island to Derwent as part of the first evacuation of Norfolk Island on CITY OF EDINBURGH with her family, arriving on 3 10 1808-to Clarence Plains/Roaches Bay. She was Free by Servitude by 1811. [a Catherine (Byrne/Burn) is recorded as dying on 6 8 1815 age41 (therefore born about 1774); & a Catherine (Chipman) is recorded with 2children, all off stores, in Hobart town on 2 10 1818] Catherine (Byrne) does not have an entry on this Website as yet-added by me; although a Mary (Byrne) is. Joseph (Simmons) was tried at Bedford Assizes Bedfordshire, sentenced to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 8 1802 after a voyage of 7.5months on COROMANDEL.>>> >>>Joseph (Simmons) may be the person recorded in Australia as Joseph Simmonds (Chipman), Joseph (Simmonds-Chipman) & (aka Simmonds). He was born about 1774. He was snnt to Norfolk Island. He left Norfolk Island to Derwent as part of the first evacuation of Norfolk Island on CITY OF EDINBURGH with his family, arriving on 3 10 1808-to Clarence Plains/Roaches Bay. He was Free by Servitude by 1811. He died on 10 3 1816 age42 & was buried at St Davids CofE Hobart. [These details taken from this Website] ++ [a Catherine (Byrne) is recorded as marrying Edward (Mosely) on 10 3 1817 at St Lukes CofE Liverpool.] [Edward (Mosely arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 8 1802 after a voyage of 7.5months on COROMANDEL also.] [Edward (Mosely) does not have an entry on this Website as yet-added by me] .. [& a Catherine (Byrne is recorded as having a child with a William (Hanlon:] [1.Mary (Hanlon) was born 15 4 1830 & baptised on 21 4 1830 at St Marys RC Sydney] ++ Reference Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'