Hugh Vesty Byrne

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Lorna Sharf from "Warby Book - My Excellent Guide" by Michelle Vale

• fact. ⁴⁴⁴ Hugh was an Irish political exile and a trusted companion of the rebel leader Michael Dwyer and fought with Dwyer in the 1798 rebellion. Neither Michael Dwyer or Hugh Byrne were inbolbed in a failed attempt to capture Dublin Castle. However, December approached with severe effects on Dwyer and his companions sheltering in the Wicklow Mountains and British solders increased theri presence, not only in the mountains, but htye made life extremely difficult for families and friends in the villages. Surrender seemed to be the only solution to their predicament. After the capture of Martin Burke, Dwyer consulted with his comnrades and surrender terms were accepted and Dwyer also negotiated the release of relatives and friends who had been arrested and that his wife and three children would liver with him whilst he remained in prison. The most important point of his surrender was the he and his wife an dchildren would be given free passage out of Ireland. Dwyer understood this to mean America and this became a point of conjecture with the authorities. Michael Dwer was taken to Dublin Caste and from there to the Kilmainham Gaol. Hugh Byrne surrendered two days later and he joined Dwyer in gaol. Arthur Devlin and John Mernagh were to follwo in quick succession. Sarh Byrne joined her husband in Kilmainham Gaol.
However, the United states would no longer accept British Exictes so it was agreed that the five Wiklow men would be sent to New South Wales, not as felons, but as free men. They were not granted pardons but were allowed to go as permanent exiles.
Hugh and Sarah Byrne left their eight year old son Philip in Ireland and never saw him again. However, they were accompanied by their younger son, Michael and daughter Rose.

See Trove site https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115764791?searchTerm="byrne" 1862 &searchLimits=#
for more information

• emigrated. Emigrated on the Tellicherry that sailed from Cork on Saturday 31st August 1805. Sarah gave birth to their daughter Anne somewhere between Madeira an dRio de Janeiro. they arrived in Sydney on 15 February 1806

• Property. Each of the five Irish exiles received a land grant of 100 acres on Cabramatta Creek, Sydney

• connection. ¹⁰⁹ Lorraine Byrne's links to me are as follows:
Lorraine Byrne (1945)
Her father was Claude Byrne (1911)
His father was James Byrne (1883)
His father was Charles Byrne (1834)
His father was Charles Byrne (1809)
His father was Hugh Byrne (1770) & he also had Catherine Byrne (1807) who married John Keighran (1802)
His father was John Keighran (1802)
His father was Patrick Keighran (1764) & he also had James Keighran (1808)
He had John Keighran (1845)
He had Joseph Keighran (1879)
He had Leslie Keighran (1904)
He had Mary Keighran (1927) who married Mervyn Collins (1924)
They had Les Collins (1950) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Hugh married Sarah Dwyer, daughter of Philip Dwyer and Mary McDonald, in 1796 in Ireland UK. (Sarah Dwyer was born in 1774 in Dublin, Eire, Ireland UK, died on 2 Jan 1872 in Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried on 3 Jan 1872 in St Johns Catholic, Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia.)