My ancestor, James Savage, was Richard's brother, who also migrated to Murphy's Creek, Queensland, Australia.
The information the family in Australia have on this family is as follows:
"From a small group of settlements approximately ten miles east of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, a family of six brothers and three sisters migrated to Southern Queensland. Little is known at present of their life in Ireland except the names of their parents - Richard Savage, a farmer, and Ellenor Savage, whose maiden name was Thompson. One brother, Andrew, remained in Ireland but, although he married, he had no children, so it would appear that no close relatives of the Savage family are living in Ireland now.
Richard and Ellenor had 10 children, and only Andrew remained behind in Ireland with them. Andrew Savage’s marriage to Charlotte Woods was registered in Clogher in 1880 (source: Ireland xo Reaching Out)
An Irish Census dated 31stMarch 1901 shows Andrew, aged 42, living with his wife, Charlotte, aged 47. All listed as Presbyterian. Also in the house were Charlotte Eakin, niece aged 20, and Emilie? Davis, a servant aged 20. Another census dated 1911 shows the same three family members, Andrew aged 52, Charlotte aged 60, niece Charlotte aged 25 and two servants: Carrey Thomas, aged 20 and Margaret McCarn, aged 40.
The remainder of the family migrated over a period of about twenty years. The eldest brothers, Richard and John, were both married and brought their families with them when they came out in the early 1860s and settled at Murphy's Creek, where John died two years later of consumption. Three other single brothers, Robert, James* and William, had arrived out by 1870, and on 29th March 1873, Thomas Henry and his sister Ellenor arrived at Brisbane on the ship "Towoomba", having sailed from Glasgow on 10th December, 1872. (Shipping records: Passenger lists, "Towoomba", Queensland Archives).
They came under the Immigration Act of 1872 which provided for free or assisted passage to "domestic servants, farmers, shepherds, farm laborers, vinedressers, laborers, and mechanics. By 'laborers' is to be understood persons whose labor has been connected with the land." (Immigration Act 1872: Clauses 9 & 24). Another brother, Thompson Savage accompanied Thomas Henry and Ellenor. Thompson died as a young man in Queensland.
The remaining sisters of the family were the last to migrate. Jane brought her children when she joined her brothers after the death of her husband, John Breydon, a ship's captain who was lost at sea. Mary Ann married Samuel Thompson, a school teacher from Cork who was appointed to the local school at Tempo, and they migrated on the "Shenir" from Plymouth in 1880. (Shipping records: Passenger lists "Shenir" - Queensland archives."
Can anyone help with the location of the graves of their parents in Ireland, Richard and Ellen Savage? Richard was thought to have died in 1877 at Lisboy, he was Methodist and it is noted that his grave is in Tempo - where?, and an Ellen Savage (looks like Salvage on record) died in 1875, aged 59, in Coobrakelly?, District Brookboro (Brookborough?). Union Lisnaskea.
