BYRNE, Francis Henry, b. 1798. arr. 12.3.1830 per Warrior with wife & family, m. Anna Matilda (nee Westcott) b. 1808. Chd. Frances Eliza b. 1827 d. 1830 (Frem). Selina Jane b. 1829 d. 1830 (Upper Swan), Ellen b . 1831, Matilda Catherine b. 1834, Alicia b. 1835, Ellen b. 1836. Formerly Capt. in Rifle Brigade (retired). Having brought servants (Hancock & Cheveril) & goods he qualified to select 11,000 acres in Avon district, nearly 2000 in Svan district & 10 acres at Rottnest. Was Harbour Master for short time at: Frem 1830. 1st Acting Res. Mag. at York. JP for Lower Swan. Later held grants at Toodyay & Murray. Contracted to supply meat to Govt. 1834. His wife & family dep. 29.3.1837 per Shepherd & he left 9.1838 per Shepherd.
" In 1823, a British army officer named Francis Henry Byrne asked Sir William Betham, Chief Herald of Ulster, for help in tracing his ancestry. Francis thought he was descendant from some O’Byrne family of Leinster, but Betham soon discovered that Francis descended from the James Byrne III who had left Co. Sligo in the late 17th century when older brother Bryan inherited the family lands. James III was Francis Henry’s great grandfather. This branch apparently had moved to Durham, England, because in 1794 Francis’s father Philip Henry had joined the Durham Fencibles and was stationed in Clonmel, Ireland, when Francis was born in 1798. Philip Henry had married Fanny Balfour of the well-known Scottish family, and he was a captain in the 25th Dragoons when he died in India. "[1]
"Philip and Fanny’s son Francis Henry Byrne also became an army officer and served from 1817 to 1829. He then migrated to Western Australia where he received a land grant of 13,000 acres. In 1837 he sold his holdings and return to England. Francis had six daughters and one known son, Philip, born in 1840."
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