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Andrew Murphy was transported on the Royal Admiral, departing 27th Sep 1834 and arriving 22nd Jan 1835 with 48 passengers.
The Royal Admiral was built at Lynn in 1828. Convicts were transported to New South Wales on the Royal Admiral in 1830, 1833, 1835 and to Van Diemen's Land in 1842. 1833 - Ship; Royal Admiral. Commenced fitting as a Convict Transport at Deptford on the 29 March. Surgeon Superintendent [Andrew Henderson] joined on the 3rd April. Guard embarked on the 13th. Sailed on the 17th and anchored in Kingston Barbour near Dublin on the 9th May. 220 convicts embarked on the 16 May 1833 and the ship sailed from Dublin Bay for Sydney on the 4th June and arrived there on the 20 October. Originally embarked with 221 convicts, 5 Died at sea, 1 was Relanded. 11 sick on shore, The convicts were described as 220 such wretchedly debilitated creatures ... Refer to the surgeons journal for full details
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Convict Notes
To NSW per Royal Admiral. To Norfolk Island 1840 to Tasmania per Ship: Lady Franklin No; 17057 Aged; 28 years old Original Offence; Having a firearms in procession and Colonial trial; Bush ranging absent 2 months, absconded from the New Country from Mr Blackman Conditional Pardon; 13 Oct 1857
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. WHEREAS a party of three armed bush-rangers came to my Shepherds about three o'clock in the afternoon, of Tuesday the 5th instant, at Grabben Gullen, on the high road from Wheeo to Goulburn, and in their presence fired two shots at my Superintendent Mr. Oliver Fry, I do hereby offer the above reward to any person who may apprehend any of the parties implicated. Two of them are well known as notorious bush-rangers, whom Mr. Fry had previously disarmed and captured at my farm on the Fish River, County of King, but afterwards effecting their escape are again returned to his neighbourhood for the avowed purpose of seeking revenge on him and his overseer. One of them can be identified as Andrew Murphy, per Royal Admiral, a runaway convict from Mr. S. Blackman, of Biga, and the same who broke out of the Goulburn Lock-up on the 26th ultimo. ANDREW GIBSON, Turranna, Goulburn. November 11, 1839. NSW Govt Gazette, 27 Nov 1839.
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Andrew Murphy, age on arrival, 16, per Royal Admiral (3) 1835, Tried at Dublin, 1834, Life, for House breaking. DOB, 1819, native place, Dublin, single. Catholic. Publicans boy.