Convict Register Details

Midwest WA Heritage Convict Register Details

Convict Registry ID:1057

SURNAMEKILMURRY
GIVEN NAMESJames
OTHER NAMEKILLMURRAY
CONVICT NO2135
BIRTH/DEATH1830 Ireland – 01.06.1893 Dongara
BRITISH DATAs/o Patrick KILMURRY and Rebecca nee McAULIFFE, unmarr, lab
PRE
CONVICTION
CONVICTIONCounty Kildare, Ireland 21.03.1850 cattle stealing, 10yrs
PHYSICAL
DESCRIPTION
5ft 8ins, black hair, dark grey eyes, oval visage, florid complexion, stout build
ARRIVALFremantle – Robert Small 19.08.1853 from Ireland
CERTIFICATESTL26.05.1854 CE, CP28.09.1857
LOCATION/
EMPLOYMENT
Perth, Guildford; ¹Aug 1857 Champion Bay money owing on passage before CP can be delivered; ^1868 farm servant; ^1870 Dongara, Irwin, employed 2 TL men; 25 years of service, Mrs Kilmurray was a mid-wife, not losing a single patient; photo of Mrs Kilmurrary (The Western Mail, 10 Jan 1929)
FAMILYMarr – ^Bridget MURPHY (b.1847 Ireland, d/o William, arr 02.01.1867 per The Bride) 21.02.1868 Greenough (The Western Mail, 10 Jan 1929)
Children: Mary Ann KILMURRY: 1869 - 1905 Irwin, marr John PAYNE 1890 Dongara; Agnes Ann KILMURRAY: 12.03.1871 Irwin - 22.05.1898 Irwin, aged 27, having given birth to a stillborn female, marr Charles VINNIER 1892 Greenough - criminally assaulted by Thomas Collins (The Herald, 02 Feb 1878); Henry KILMURRY: 17.07.1873 Irwin River - 01.05.1948 Perth, marr Mena COOK 1906 Irwin; James KILMURRAY: 24.06.1875 Irwin - 01.09.1953 Geraldton, marr Elizabeth COLLINS 1895 Dongara; William KILMURRY: 24.09.1877 Dongara - 22.12.1955 Irwin, marr1. Esther Maude COUSINS, marr2. Emma B LOOKE 1906 Irwin; Patrick KILMURRAY: 1880 Dongara - 1933 East Murchison; Catherine KILMURRAY: 24.02.1882 Dongara - 02.07.1963, marr Donald McLEAN 1907 Murchison; Eleanor KILMURRAY: 24.02.1883 Dongara - 1965
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COMMENTSNote: Initial information for Location/Employment taken from Dictionary of Western Australians Convicts in Western Australia 1850 - 1887 Vol IX - entries for Perth & Guildford yet to be established from a primary source; daughter Mary Anne Kilmurray and husband John Payne had seven children – son James Payne b1894 married Holly Evelyn Brandis in 1901 Dongara
REFERENCESSROWA – Convict Register Acc 1156 R21B; Convict Description Register Acc 128/41; ¹Comptroller General Letterbook Acc 1156 C11/778; WAGS Convict Links Vol 27, No3 p7 & 8; Erickson, R: Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre1829 – 1888, p1742
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