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Voyage
Transportation
William Murnane was transported on the Three Bees, departing 8th Dec 1813 and arriving 6th May 1814 with 221 passengers.
SHIP NEWS.—On Wednesday arrived the Catherine transport, Capt. Simmonds, with 97 female prisoners from Ireland; which she received at Cork, and afterwards went to Falmouth for convoy, whence she sailed for this Colony the 8th of last December. Yesterday arrived the Three Bees transport, Capt. Wallace, with 209 male prisoners, also from Ireland, but last from England having sailed in the same convoy with the Catherine, under protection of the Niger and Tagus frigates; which captured, off the Cape de Verde, the Ceres French frigate, rated 36, but carrying 46 guns, after an action of 15 minutes in which the Tagus only was engaged. Sydney Gazette, 7 May 1814.
Three Bees (generic)References
| Primary Source | Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. Family History Ancestry.com. Australia, List of Convicts with Particulars, 1788-1842 [database on-line]. Original data: Colonial Office and Predecessors: Alphabetical list of convicts with particulars 1788-1825; 1840-1842; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication CO 207/9); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England. In Australian archives the collection is referenced as CO207/1-3. |
Claims
"4th great grandfather"
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Convict Notes
Our family are known by Murnane in Australia, and records show William's name being recorded as Murnane
Colonial Secretary Index. MURNANE, William. Per "Three Bees", 1814 1823 - Servant to William Redfern. Memorial (Fiche 3068; 4/1835A No.219 pp.367-70)
Irish Convict Database by Peter Mayberry. William Mulnane, alias Murnane, Three Bees (1814), Tried Tipperary Co., 1813, 7 years.