Peter Murphy

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Name, Aliases & Gender

Name:	Peter Murphy
Aliases:	Duff
Gender:	m

Birth, Occupation & Death

Date of Birth:	1806
Occupation:	Plasterer and tiler
Date of Death:	6th April, 1878
Age:	72 years

Life Span

Male median life span was 57 years*

* Median life span based on contributions

Conviction & Transportation

Sentence Severity

Sentenced to Life

Crime:	Street robbery
Convicted at:	Dublin City
Sentence term:	Life
Ship:	Countess of Harcourt
Departure date:	14th February, 1827
Arrival date:	28th June, 1827
Place of arrival	New South Wales
Passenger manifest	Travelled with 44 other convicts

References

Primary source:	http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi?requestType=Search2&id=22706
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Community Contributions

D Wong on 14th October, 2014 wrote:

2 Peter Murphy’s on this voyage.

Peter Murphy (also alias Duff, as is the other Peter Murphy) was 21 years old on arrival.

9/12/1833: Assigned to Patrick Leslie.

1842: TOL Moreton Bay
31/12/1841: CP

4/6/1840: Was assigned to Patrick Leslie, a settler, and they and other convicts formed first settlement on Darling Downs. Leslie described Peter Murphy - Peter Murphy, alias Duff, a “lifer” “about the best plucked fellow I ever came across in my life, and as good a servant as man ever had.”

1842: married Catherine THOMPSON at St Mary’s RC Church, Sydney and had 13? Children, many dying in infancy.

Peter was sergeant of police at Bowen, Port Denison.

6/4/1878: Peter died at Charters Towers, QLD.

13/5/1878 Brisbane Courier:
DEATHS.
MURPHY - On the 6th April, at Charters Towers, Queensland, Peter Murphy, sen., aged 72 years, native of Dublin; came to the colonies in 1819, and in 1839 he came overland with Patrick Leslie from Collaroy, New England, to the Darling Downs; they were the first two pioneers from New South Wales to Queensland.

Convict Changes History

Peter Landis on 14th October, 2014 made the following changes:

convicted at, term: 99 years, voyage, source: http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi?requestType=Search2&id=22706 (prev. ), firstname: Peter, surname: Murphy, alias1: Duff, alias2: , alias3: , alias4: , date of birth: 1806, date of deat

D Wong on 14th October, 2014 made the following changes:

date of death: 6th April, 1878 (prev. 0000)