John Frances McNamee was born in Ireland around 1839, he died in Mount Perry, Queensland, Australia on 25 April 1923. He married Rosanna Brannigan in 1865 at Black Hall, Durham, England. They arrived in Brisbane, Queensland on the ship "Young Australia" in 1869. He then came to Mount Perry to work at the copper mines as a miner then smelter. Each generation after named all their sons John Frances/Francis no matter how many sons they had. One generation had two, but one was given the third name of Geoffrey. I have their shipping information, his death certificate, Qld electoral rolls, and his son's death certificate. I have ordered their marriage certificate. John Frances's death certificate did not list his parent's names, just that he was born in Ireland.
There are several McNamee families in Queensland, but none connect to John Francis that I can find. He did live near a James McNamee that was a school teacher at Mount Perry, but James was the son of another John McNamee in Brisbane.
On searching through census records, I have found several McNamee families in Scotland that were born in Ireland and worked around the pig iron, copper, and coal mines. There are several that have the same naming patterns, I found this site following a Francis McNamee that did not turn out. His John born around the same time period married another woman. With so many Johns being in the family tree I was trying to follow the mining industry of where McNamee families would be. When Mount Perry started mining they put out a call for all miners in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England to come for jobs. Queensland was still a colony until 1859 and didn't have the population to run such an operation without more employees coming from elsewhere. Lanarkshire had a large number of men leave for Australia, has several mines, a number of McNamees so searching all men in that area with the name John or Frances.

Cheers, Kellea