William MUIR

GEDCOM Note

74th Regiment of Foot (while William Muir belonged to it from Nov 1825 to Feb 1848)
The regiment embarked for Barbados in September 1834 and, after arrival there, moved on to Grenada in December 1834. The regiment transferred to Antigua in November 1835: it was then split into two formations which were deployed to Dominica and to Saint Lucia in February 1837. The regiment moved on to Quebec in Canada in May 1841 before embarking for home and landing at Deal in March 1845.
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Possibly sisters: Maria (b. 1835); Marion (b. 1833), also on passenger list below.

Possibility:
Vessel
NORTHERN LIGHT
Masters
Plain, Henry W.
JOURNEY Origin
Liverpool
Depart Date
Sunday, December 10, 1854
Destination
Port Adelaide
Arrive Date
Saturday, April 7, 1855
https://passengers.history.sa.gov.au/node/614785
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Name: William Muir [To be investigated]
Vessel: Palmerston
Convicted Date: 21 Dec 1858
Voyage Date: 8 Nov 1860
Colony: Western Australia
Place of Conviction: Glasgow, Scotland
Source Citation\Class: HO 11; Piece: 18\
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Name: William Muir
Date: 15 Dec 1857
Grant Location: Tasmania, Australia
5 acres plus. Pontville, Tasmania

Name: William Muir
Date: 24 Jun 1872
Grant Location: Tasmania, Australia
50 acres in the Parish of Stowport, County of Devon, Tasmania.
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Source Information\Ancestry.com. Australian Convict Transportation Registers \'96 Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.\Original data: Home Office: Convict Transportation Registers; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO11); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.\

\\\http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197563466?searchTerm=%22W...\12 Jun 1871 -

Ballarat Star, Victoria, Page 2, News and Notes.\"The deceased procured the meat, which was on\Sunday found in the house, but as the\son was late in arriving at home, he retired\to rest witbout looking to see if his father had\gone to bed. On Sunday morning, early, Mr William\Muir, deceased's son, who lives in Raglan street, went\down to Grenville street, and going into bis father's\house, asked his brother where the old man was. His\brother replied that doubtless his father was up and\moving about; but as he was not found at first a\search was instituted, and he was discovered in a small\house at the back of the dwelling, tied up, and quite\dead, from strangulation, The alarm was given, and\the police sent for. The body was cut down by the\first constable who made his appearance, but it was\found to be quite stiff. No particular reason is given\for the committal of the act. An inquest will be held\to-day."
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THE LORDSHIP & BARONY OF KILMARNOCK\\MUIR's are a sept of the BOYD CLAN. The seat of the BOYD Clan is Dean Castle. Dean Castle is situated in the Dean Castle Country Park in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland (open to public). It was the stronghold for the Boyd Family, who were lords of Kilmarnock for over 400 years. See: http://www.kilmarnock.com/dean.html\\http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Boyd\

The Boyd Family came into possession of the grounds of Dean Castle in 1316, when Sir Robert Boyd was rewarded the lands of Kilmarnock and West Kilbride by King Robert I for his services at the Battle of Bannockburn.\\The third earl opposed the Jacobite rising of 1715 and commanded a regiment of Ayrshire volunteers for the government. However his son, the fourth earl, did support the Jacobite rising of 1745 and fought for Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, after he had made him a member of the Privy Council with the rank of general.[3] Boyd was captured at the Battle of Culloden and taken to the Tower of London. He was beheaded on Tower Hill on 18 August 1746. All of the Boyd titles were then forfeited, however his eldest son succeeded through his mother to the title of Earl of Erroll and changed his surname to Hay. (See: James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll).\\The 22nd Earl of Errol died in Kenya in 1941. His daughter was entitled to succeed in the earldom of Erroll and the chiefship of the Clan Hay but was excluded from the barony of Kilmarnock which could only pass to males. Consequently the brother of the 22nd Earl resumed the surname of Boyd and succeeded to the barony of Kilmarnock.\\MOORE, MUIR as Sept of Clan Campbell:\\The inclusion of the name Mure, Muir, or Moore among Campbell septs is perhaps rather optimistic since the family have a perfectly good Chief of their own in the person of Mure of Rowallan, in Ayrshire, one of Scotland's oldest and most historic families.\\There are however two instances of a Campbell connection on which, presumably, the attribution is based. James Mure Campbell, who succeeded his cousin as 5th Earl of Loudoun in 1782 had added the name Mure to his own on succeeding to the estates of Rowallan. These he inherited through his mother who was the daughter of of David Earl of Glasgow and Jean Mure, heiress of Rowallan.\\Members of the same family had been among the Presbyterian lowlanders imported into Kintyre the previous century by the Marquess of Argyll in order to ensure the payment of rent from his estates there and from the later 1600s onwards, the name figures among the Earl's tenants in Kintyre..\\William Muir: (May not be relevant)\Civil:\8 Nov 1847 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland\Departure:\3 May 1850\Residence:\Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land)\Convict seven years
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Relevance? Tasmanian Names Index
Name:Muir, William
Record Type:Arrivals
Title:Private
Arrival date:9 Aug 1850
Departure port:Portsmouth
Ship:Maria Somes
Remarks:
Military Pensioner residing Pontville
Record ID:
NAME_INDEXES:430539
Resource:
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Ireland, Royal Hospital Kilmainham Pensioner Discharge Documents, 1724-1924
PENSION RECORDS
Name: Willm Muir
Pension Admission Age: 39
Birth Date: abt 1809
Pension Admission Date: Feb 1848
Pension Admission Place: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Regiment: 74th Foot
Rank: Private
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