Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Anne Murray was transported on the Whitby, departing 18th Feb 1839 and arriving 22nd Jun 1839 with 133 passengers.
Departed from Cork, Ireland. 133 female prisoners and twenty-five children.
Whitby (generic)References
| Primary Source | State Archives NSW (Indents: NRS 12189; Item X642; Microfiche 739). NSW & Tasmania Convict Pardons HO10/55. Ancestry. |
Claims
"She was my gt, gt, gt grandmother."
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Convict Notes
Irish Convict Database, by Peter Mayberry. Ann Murray, alias Anne, age on arrival, 60, per Whitby, 1839, Tried 1838 at Donegal, 7 years for Stealing poultry. DOB, 1779, native place, Donegal Co. Catholic. Widow, 1 male child, son John Colburn arrived per Waverley (1) 1839. Trade: Servant house. The same database lists the other Anne Murray on board, who was a girl of 16, tried at Westmeath in 1838 for stealing clothes, as having a sister named Mary Murray, who arrived about 1830-1831.
Fowl Robberies. —The people of Strabane and Gilford, but particularly of the latter, and also of Taugbboyne, have been  very much annoyed since the beginning of November last by depredations committed upon their poultry ...which has  which has fortunately been obtained. Wednesday night a man in Gilford, named M‘Gilway, was awakened by an uproar in his usually peaceable hen-roost The cries of his fowls, which smote his ear being particularly  valedictory in their tone, gradually died away; and it was not until silence had been restored, that his suspicions became excited. Getting up and dressing, he hurried along the road to the house of one Wilson, at Sandymills, at ... from his own ; where he came up to a horse and cart, with two men and a woman, who had stopped to commence an attack upon the poultry yard at that place. One of the men took to his heels, on seeing the approach of M'Gilway, who very intrepidly grappled with the other, who was armed with a pistol, charged with two bullets, and succeeded in securing both him and the woman, who turned out to he his mother. His name Colhoun; and on the cart his mother’s name appeared at full length. There were  no fewer than 91 fowls, 49 of which were geese, all of them, of course, picked up in the course of that night. It has been ascertained that they had been in the practice of driving the horse and cart through the country, under cloud of night, stealing all the poultry they could lay their hands on, and bleeding them as they went along, until they reached Derry, whence they transported their booty to Glasgow or Liverpool. Both Colhoun and his mother have been tried at Lifford Sessions and sentenced to seven years transportation. Derry Journal, 8 Jan 1839. Caution TO FOWL STEALERS. TWO TRANSPORTED. Anne Murray and John Colhoun, committed to the gaol of Lifford ? instant, charged with stealing fowls in the parish of Clou  were convicted, on the ?th instant, ..., and  sentenced, ... each to seven year’s transportation, We hope … salutary warning to those engaged in such wicked practices. Londonderry Sentinel, 12 Jan 1839.
There were many Anne Murrays. One on her ship. Anne didn't have any previous convictions. So perhaps other contributors are conflating two different women.
I don't agree that Anne had a sister. No evidence for that. Recently found newspaper accounts from the Londerry Sentinel of 12 January 1839, & Londonderry Journal of 8 January 1839 on British Newspaper Archives report her trial. She was found with her own labelled horse and cart loaded with poultry with throats cut. She was accused of stealing 91 fowls near Clonleigh, in Churchminster parish County Donegal. These were mainly geese, but also ducks & a turkey. She was also suspected of stealing at night on an industrial scale for months. Her son John Colhoun was arrested with her.
NSW Convict Index. Convict Applications to Marry. Edward Moran, per Lord Sidmouth 2, age 40, Life, Condition, CP; and Anne Murray, per Whitby, age 61, 7 years, Bond. Date of permission, 12 Nov 1840, Sydney, Rev E. Murphy.
Gosford Pioneer Register:- Birth date 1780 Spouse: Edward Moran Marriage: 16 February 1841 in Sydney Father's name: Earl Death: 21 July 1862 in Cockle Creek, NSW Burial: 23 July 1862
Non-Annotated Printed Indentures No. 380/39: aged 60 Can read Roman Catholic Widow with 1 male child Native Place: County Donegal Trade: House Servant Tried: 31 December 1838 for Stealing Poultry 2 previous convictions, 3 weeks & 1 week Complexion: Ruddy & freckled Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Remarks: Full featured, nose short & a little cocked; sister, Mary Murray, out 8 or 9 years. Certificate of Freedom No. 50/25 Son John Colquhoun expected via Wavely - as per Andrew Colquhoun
Anne Murray B. abt 1780 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland or 1779 based on Marriage to Edward Moran b. 1780 Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland - however in a 1841 Censes bothAnn and Edward are listed as Under 45. Death 21 Jul 1862 in Cockle Creek, or Previously: 1874 Parramatta, and still in-question as no matter what she lived to a grand old age of 82-94.