Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Peter Murphy was transported on the Countess Of Harcourt, departing 14th Feb 1827 and arriving 28th Jun 1827 with 198 passengers.
Ship of 517 tons, built in India 1811. Voyages to NSW and VDL 1821, 1822, 1824, 1827 & 1828. Researchers please note that sailings direct from Ireland to Australia are not recorded under British data, and therefore not all details of people are on this web site (they are being added in, by volunteers, so please check thoroughly or send a message on community fb if you have queries).
Countess Of Harcourt (generic)References
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Claims
"Peter Duff Murphy was the g-g-grandfather of my husband."
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Convict Notes
COMMISSION. THIRD DAY. At ten o'clock yesterday the Judges took their seats on the Bench. Peter Murphy, alias Duff, and Christopher Monks, a boy of about 13 years old, were indicted for having, on Saturday, the 3d of June, barbarously and feloniously entered the house of Pat. Barnewall, Spring- therefrom gardens, Newcomen-bridge, and taken certain articles, the property of Barnewall, and also some clothes the proper of Miss Anne Frued. John Daly sworn and examined by Mr. M‘Kane. Lives in Spring-gardens, Newcomen-bridge, on the Canal, in the House of Peter Barnewall ; remembers that on last Saturday fortnight, at three o'clock in the morning, he was alarmed by a noise at the back door ; he asked, “Who’s there?” On receiving no answer, he started up out of bed; on out he saw the back door open, and two persons at it, one of them with a bundle of clothes in his hands. Being given a wand to identify the prisoners, he laid it on Murphy. There were some bricks taken out of the wall of the house, and a hole made sufficient to admit a boy; he followed prisoners as far as Clarke’s-bridge. .... Dublin Morning Register, 21 June 1826. Peter Murphy alias Duffy, and Christopher Monks, were also tried tor a burglary and felony in the house, Peter Barnwell. They were convicted of the felony, and sentenced to be transported for life. Cork Constitution, 24 June 1826.
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.