Can anyone help me with this problem. I am in Australia and have an ancestor Daniel McFarlane who was sent here as a convict in 1826. He was found guilty of stealing a sheep and tried in Cork, Ireland and transported to the colony of NSW for 7 years.
All his records claim that he was a "soldier serving in Ireland" and that he was born in Pershire, Scotland in or around 1804 (he seems to change his birth date depending on which document one looks at). I have tried several avenues