Notes for: Margaret Murphy


3 Apr 1832 - the following quote is from the Irish newspaper the Limerick Evening Post and Clare Sentinal, 3 April 1832
Quote - New wives for New South Wales -- vessel, we believe the Red Rover, has been taken up by the Government, for the purpose of conveying 200 free female emmigrants from Cork to New South Wales, who are to be provided with situations or husbands as chance may offer, on their arrival - end quote.

10 Aug 1832 - Immigrant Assignment List - Ship Red Rover 1832 - Margaret arrived in NSW aboard the Red Rover from Ireland as a passenger (Bounty Immigrant).
Passengers consisted of young females aged between 16 and 24 mainly from the House of Industry and the Foundling Hospital. The passengers were classed as Bounty Immigrant Passengers. On arrival in NSW they were temporarily accomodated in the Lumber Yard.

Within weeks all the girls were either employed by persons in the Colony or had met their future husbands, some crew members quit the Red Rover when it arrived in Sydney so that they could marry the girls they met on the ship.
(Sourced from the Internet)

There are other Murphy females on the Red Rover, co-incidently all appear to be born around the same period, it could be that they are siblings as it is mentioned that orphaned siblings did arrive together as passengers on the Red Rover.

1832 - She was employed by Mrs R Nichols of Concord, this property was next to William Morgans old farm which was next to Ellen Frazers farm.

1833 - Extract of The Sydney Gazette, Tuesday 26 February 1833, states - What shall we say of the importation of the ladies from the land of song, by the ship Red Rover, whose name and fame are identified with the vessel and who are designated The Red Rovers.

1833 - Margaret is recorded on her marriage certificate as living at Concord at the time of her marriage to Richard Morgan also of Concord and the son of Ellen Frazer.

7 Oct 1833 - Margaret married Richard Morgan in the Scots Church, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, County of Cumberland.

1841 - 1841 NSW Census states that three females were living in the house of Richard Morgan, two being children born in the Colony and one adult female aged between twenty-one and under fourty-one years, the adult female was married and came free to the Colony.

20 Feb 1887 - Margaret passed away at Petersham Sydney but her residence was at Concord Sydney. Margarets death certificate notes that she arrived free from Ireland 54 years previously which puts her arrival at approximately 1832-1833.