Redmund McGrah (c.1756-1788) was found guilty on 29 October 1783 at the Old Bailey, London, of stealing goods from a shop. Sentenced to 7 years transportation, he was among the prisoners who mutinied on the convict transport Mercury in April 1784. Recaptured, he was sent to the Dunkirk hulk in June 1784. He was discharged to the Friendship in March 1787 and arrived in Sydney in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet.
McGrah was buried (as Edmund McGrass, papist) on 29 July 1788 at Sydney Cove.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 231
'McGrah, Redmund (c. 1756–1788)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/mcgrah-redmund-30827/text38176, accessed 15 May 2024.
c. 1756
28 July,
1788
(aged ~ 32)
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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