Bryan Mcnamara

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Gail Robyn Newman on 12th July 2023

Dublin Morning Register - Thursday 19 May 1825 p. 3 Text: "On Saturday last, Bryan McNamara, and eight other convicts, under sentence of transportation, were conveyed, by an escort of the 1st Royals, from the Jail of Castlebar, on their way to Cork. McNamara has been under sentence of death, which sentence has since been commuted to transportation."

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Gail Robyn Newman on 25th November 2020

Bryan was the brother of Patrick McNamara who arrived on the "Isabella" - Bryan was assigned to Thomas Rose at Appin, In 1830 Bryan applied to have his wife Mary and his children brought out to join him, Mary and the 4 youngest children were brought out and the older 2 boys joined them as unassisted immigrants and arrived in 1833. In MAR 1835 along with some other Irish men he was charged with murdering an English road gang worker, on St Patricks Day, when they were drinking in the local Inn, an argument erupted with 2 Englishmen over who had the best country, one ran off and the other was bashed and subsequently died from his injuries, all the Irishmen were found not guilty due to lack of evidence as to who dealt the fatal blow. In Nov 1835 Bryan and his wife Mary were charged with housebreaking, and Bryan was sentenced to 14 years hard labour and sent to Norfolk Island on the "Governor Philip" Mary was found not guilty as she had to look after the children. Bryan was very good at petitioning the governor for a better outcome and in FEB 1840 he applied for remission of his sentence and returned to his family at Appin in Mar 1840.Bryan received a conditional pardon in DEC 1841, the family moved to Wagga Wagga, not sure of the year but were there in 1852 when his Bryan and Mary's son James drowned in the 1852 Gundagai Flood. Both Bryan and Mary are buried on their property at Kyeamba Creek but neither death is registered