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Don't combine them. Get them in a new box and off of the other hive as soon as you can, even if it's not a proper box.
Did the new hive have a solid bottom? (They don't seem to like screened bottoms.) Dumping them onto a sheet leading up to the new hive seems to help me. I wish it had worked out for you. Sometimes, swarms gotta swarm.They gone....Any ideas on why they left?