Quotes from Alma Byrnes "We are not related to the Parramatta Byrnes's" "We are Welsh" - Wrong Mother, looks like we are Irish ( She got the first one right) The image above is that of the ship "Zemindar". Our first ancestors to Australia, Thomas Burn, Joanna Burn and son. William Thomas, arrived on her in September of 1857. Young William was born in Devon, England on the 18th July, 1856.