Clare to Brisbane (Moreton Bay), Australia

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From a wonderful website worth exploring for fuller versions of the family events indicated below. I checked the archives of this Forum to see if this material has already been posted, but, using Halligan and Murtagh as search terms, it does not appear so.

Sharon Carberry USA


Gleneagle RC Cem, Beaudesert shire, due south of Brisbane
http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/Family ... eaudesert/

Bridget MOLONEY, born County Clare Ireland, died 25 March 1889 aged 60 years; Michael, son, born County Clare Ireland, died 5 May 1906 aged 59 years; Catherine MOLONEY, died 9 April 1939 aged 84 years; Mary MOLONEY, died 3 Nov 1883 aged 5 years; Hugh Patrick, died 8 May 1916 aged 21 years; Gleneagle Catholic cemetery, Beaudesert Shire

Annie HEHIR,
born County Clare Ireland,
died 18 June 1949 aged 94 years

"Parsee" - Moreton Bay - 11 January 1853
Widows - on Embarkation
Heher*: Sarah 44 Widow Clare Ireland C of R Both
Heher*: Silvoy 23 Labourer Clare Ireland C of R Both
Heher*: Ann 18 Domestic Servant Clare Ireland C of R Read
Heher*: Bridget 16 Domestic Servant Clare Ireland C of R Read

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Christmas Creek, Beaudesert Shire
Martin SULLIVAN,
born County Clare, Ireland,
died Christmas Creek 29 March 1904 aged 68 years;
Mary Elizabeth, wife of Martin SULLIVAN,
died 2 Feb 1921 aged 55 years;
Martin Bernard SULLIVAN,
died 5 April 1973 aged 76 years;
Josephine Julia SULLIVAN,
died 17 Nov 1996 aged 93 years

Helidon Catholic cemetery, Gatton Shire
John O'BRIEN,
husband of Catherine O'BRIEN,
native of Co Clare Ireland,
died 2 Feb 1891 aged 60 years;
Catherine O'BRIEN, wife,
died 19 Oct 1918 aged 71 years;
Bridget, daughter,
wife of M. O'BRIEN,
died 9 July 1919 aged 22? years

Helidon Catholic cemetery, Gatton Shire
Thomas CROTTY,
born Co Clare Ireland,
died 8 Sept 1912 aged 70 years;
Catherine,
born Co Clare Ireland,
died 7 Feb 1918 aged 64 years;
Bridget CROTTY,
died 14 July 1972;
David Thomas CROTTY,
1892 - 1968;
Mary Imelda CROTTY,
died 28 June 1916 aged 10 months

Pine Mountain Catholic (St Michael's) cemetery, Ipswich
James MURTAGH,
died 14 March 1908 aged 26 years;
Patrick, May & Peter,
infant children of John & Mary MURTAGH;
parents;
John MURTAGH,
died 10 Sept 1935 aged 79 years;
Mary MURTAGH,
died 3 Feb 1938 aged 79 years;
Matthew MURTAGH,
died 6 Sept 1880 aged 50 years,
native of County Clare Ireland;
Hanorah, wife,
died 16 Sept 1896 aged 65 years;
Michael MURTAGH,
killed in action Bullecourt France
11 April 1917 aged 28 years;
Matthew MURTAGH,
died 15? July 1962 aged 52 years;
John MURGAH,
served in Gallipoli & France;
and
Matthew MURTACH, of County Clare Ireland,
died 6 Sept 1880 aged 50 years;
Honorah, wife,
died 16 Sept 1896 aged 65 years;

Jandowae Cemetery, Wambo Shire
Edward STEWART,
born County Clare Ireland,
died 1 Feb 1929 aged 85 years;
Susan STEWART,
wife,
born County Clare Ireland,
died 1 April 1936 aged 86 years
and
Bridget STEWART,
born Bodyke County Clare Ireland,
died 26 July 1939 aged 76 years;
James STEWART,
husband,
died 29 Apr 1942 aged 85 years

Jondaryan name index
Margaret SPELLACY, mother,
died 10 March 1898 aged 42 years;
Michael SPELLACY,
died 3 May 1924 aged 64 years;
natives of Co Clare Ireland;
Jondaryan cemetery, Jondaryan Shire

Mary JONES
BIRTH: ABT 1810, Newmarket, County Clare, Ireland?
husband:
Peter EGAN
BIRTH: ABT 1810, Newmarket, County Clare, Ireland
children: 3 including Patrick who married Catherine O'Hara

PIONEER DAYS
FARMING AT WEST END
LONG FORGOTTEN CRIMES
9 May 1925
The old pioneers, the men who saw the beginning of things in the State, are getting fewer and fewer, as the years speed by...

Such a one is Mr. Dan O’Neill, who lives on his farm at Thornton, some ten miles up Laidley Creek. In a chat with the writer, he said he landed with his parents in 1853, from County Clare, Ireland, and came out in the ship John Fielding. There was no Brisbane then; it was Moreton Bay settlement, with little to show what a great city it was to become.

“I was between 10 and 11 years of age at the time,” he went on, and I am now going on for 81. The first work my family got was with Mr. Coombes, who had a farm at what is now the West End. I think there is a tannery on the same spot now. Well, when I was about 14, I joined up with the Public Works Department, and was under Mr. H. A. Clinton, the chief engineer being Mr. Robert Austin.

The work was surveying roads and building bridges, and my particular job was to look after the horses> I saw most of Southern Queensland during the 14 years that I remained in the Government employ.
...
In those days, Rosevale was owned by a Mr. Ross, and was managed by Mr. McAndrew. Sheep were on it, but the country was no good for sheep as they got foot rot on the wet ground. I got married about that time, my wife, a Miss Rollins, being born in Ipswich on Christmas night, 1853, so you see, we both came to the country in the same year.

I started farming at St. Lucia, but when the land was thrown open at Laidley, selected Summer Hill, but later sold out, and took up 320 acres I am now at Thornton. All this land was held by Mort and Laidley, and formed part of the Franklyn Vale Station.
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Patrick Halligan, an Irish immigrant from County Clare, arrived in Australia in 1862 with his bride, Hannah, and settled in Rockhampton. They soon established themselves as the well‑respected licensees of the Lion Creek Hotel a few miles out of town. Patrick was an honest gold buyer who, it was well known, always carried fat wads of notes when he went out to the nearby diggings, such as Cawarral or Morinish. Friends warned him that one day he would be stuck up, but he refused to consider an escort, for, as he said, “I've got my little gentleman in my pocket who will stand by me.” No one would ever get any gold from him, he told them, so long as he could pull a trigger.

Besides, Halligan was a lover of good horses, and he was willing to back his bay mare against any horse flesh in the district. He had done just that at many of the race‑meetings he had himself helped to promote.

He'd already had one lucky escape, returning one night from Hall and Morgan's mine at Cawarral, when two unknown men jumped him, thinking most likely that it was Tom Hall coming in with a parcel of gold. It was only by good riding and local knowledge of the bush that he escaped. Rather than scaring him, he boasted that it just showed that he could handle himself without help.

The Halligans prospered, and in 1869 they sold the Lion to Alexander Archibald so that they could move into town to take over the bigger Golden Age Hotel. Now they had four children, three sons and a daughter.
...
On 11 May, 16 days after Halligan's disappearance, a search party set out by boat to scour the Fitzroy River towards Eight Mile Island. As they passed through a narrow channel, one of the men called out that there seemed to be something in the rushes near the water's edge.

The boat was pulled over, and there was Halligan's body, floating face up. [His murderers were located and prosecuted.]
...
Such was the punishment meted out to those who had planned the robbery and murder of Patrick Halligan on Sunday evening, 25 April 1869.