Kennedy Murray

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Maureen Withey on 17th August 2021

LAST ENTRY ADDED IN ERROR. - PLEASE DISREGARD. ---------------------------------------------------- Colonial Secretary Index. MURRAY, Kennedy. Per "Pitt", 1792. 1820 Memorial (Fiche 3026; 4/1825A No.529 pp.91, 94) 1823 Jul 9 His wife died insane at Castle Hill; Murray reported insane. His four children to be admitted to the Male Orphan Institution (Reel 6040; 4/400 p.56) 1823 Oct 22 Of Richmond. His sons William, Henry and James Murray admitted to the Male Orphan School (Fiche 3307; 4/7208 pp.9-10)

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Maureen Withey on 17th August 2021

Colonial Secretary Index. MCCOURT, Patrick. Per "Coromandel", 1820 1821 Sep 8 Labourer. On list of all persons victualled from H.M. Magazines (Reel 6016; 4/5781 p.95) 1823 Jan 12 On return of convicts discharged from the Establishment, Emu Plains; to Mr Murdoch's clearing party (Reel 6028; 2/8283 p.132) 1823 Sep 22-Oct 15 Sentenced to death; commuted to transportation to Port Macquarie. In reports of prisoners tried at Court of Criminal Jurisdiction (Reel 6023; X820 p.109) 1823 Nov 10 Tried in Sydney. Sentence commuted to transportation (Reel 6070; 4/1265 pp.11-2) 1823 Nov 12 Capital sentence commuted to transportation to Port Macquarie. Notification of commutation (Reel 6069; 4/1817 p.28) 1823 Nov 12 Convicted of capital offence by Court of Criminal Judicature. Petition for mitigation of sentence; as McCorte (Fiche 3234; 4/1870 p.16) 1823 Nov 26 On lists of prisoners transported to Port Macquarie per "Sally"; not conveyed per "Sally" but per "Lady Nelson" on 17 Dec 1823 (Reel 6019; 4/3864 pp.93, 454-5)

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Brendon Hextall on 29th January 2021

23rd Apr 1802 Kennedy Murray leaves Norfolk Is for Sydney,leaving Ann White behind, his sentence having expired on 1st Jan 1802. He was granted 30 acres of land to work outside of Sydney. He married Ann Parker with whom he had four children. In 1820 she was placed in Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum. In 1823 his children were admitted to the Cabramatta Boys Orphanage. Ann White then took up with Richard Sydes around 1803. They raised Kennedy and Ann's two children and had three of their own on Norfolk Island and another in Tasmania. They arrived at Port Dalrymple [now Georgetown]aboard the Lady Nelson 1st March 1813. They married in Launceston 14th March 1814.

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Iris Dunne on 12th August 2019

Australia Death Index: Birth about 1764, aged 89, Death 18 June 1853 at Morven, Tasmania, Registration No.114

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Peter Williams on 12th August 2019

Married?Anne White on Norfolk Island she was later declared insane and committed to Castle Hill asylum in Sydney and was the longest resident and died there date unknown by me Kennedy Murray moves to Northern Tasmania in the Evandale district

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Denis Pember on 18th September 2015

On arrival in the colony, Kennedy was sent to Norfolk Island. Here he formed a liaison with Ann White (Convict, Neptune, 1790). They had two children. The relationship evidently broke up in about 1802. In 1814, 14th March, Kennedy married Ann Parker (Convict, Glatton, 1803) and they had 4 sons.

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Denis Pember on 18th September 2015

Caledonian Mercury Wed 07 Dec 1785 p. 3 On Wednesday last, Kennedy Murray, William Stewart, from Edinburgh, William Macpherson, Thomas Witherspoon, and John Thomson, were apprehended at Glasgow and lodged in prison, for shop-breaking. [Source: British Newspaper Archive; database online] Caledonian Mercury Sat 23 Sep 1786 p. 3 Kennedy Murray was accused of theft, and having petitioned for banishment, the same was consented to, on account of his youth and some other favourable circumstances; and he was sentenced to transportation for fourteen years, and seven years service.

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Colin Rowley on 19th October 2014

Died in Tasmania. Built Prosperous House in Launceston.