Murnanes of Ballyryan West, County Tipperary
and Port Fairy, Tower Hill, Koroit and Stawell (Victoria)

Patrick Murnane, the son of Michael Murnane, a farmer born about 1800 and Mary Dee, born about 1804, was born at Ballyryan West, near Oola, in the Solohead Parish of County Tipperary. They had eight children: Patrick (1833), Sarah (1835), Thomas(1836), Hannah(1837), Mary(April 6, 1839), John (July 5,1842) and twins David and William (August 19, 1844). It is not known what happened to Michael and Mary . Both the twins died in infancy and all the living children emigrated, mostly as assisted immigrants, to Australia. Thomas and Sarah arrived in Australia on 12 September 1857 on the ship " Chance", following Patrick and his wife Ann who had arrived two years earlier. John followed in 1869.