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Dwyer Family
of Tipperary Ireland to Australia


This is a brief history of the first generation
of the Dwyer family from the parish of Bansha Co Tipperary to Victoria Australia.

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James Dwyer and Ann McCarthy [bc 1812, Capper,Co Tipperary] where married in the church of Kilmoyler on the 28th October 1828, in the parish of Bansha-Kilmoyler , Co Tipperary.

Children:all born Tipperary 1828 - 1846,except poss Margaret.

Margaret [possibly born Limerick],
William m Ellen Maher [Inverloch - Geelong ,Vict - Aust]
Mary m John Ryan [Camperdown - Vict - Aust]
Ann m William Kearney [Killarney-Vict-Aust]
Jeremiah m Mary Ann Fitgerald [Kirkstall-Vict - Australia ]
Hanora Betsey died from the results of burns as a young lady at Port Fairy
Patrick [Koroit] died unmarried.

James Dwyer appears to have died in Ireland, prior to his wife and children emigrating to Victoria in 1857. They came per 'Victory', and Ann Dwyer stated that they where going to friends at Belfast [Port Fairy].

The eldest son, William had arrived in Victoria with his wife Ellen prior to the rest of the family arriving 1857.

Jeremiah ,another son, became a local member for the Legislative Assembly whilst still a young man.He spent time in Western Australia and in Sydney.

Ann Dwyer is buried at the Camperdown Cemetery with her daughter's family. The resting place of her husband,James Dwyer, is still unknown,possibly Ireland, though still undergoing further research, as is the family's background in Ireland.