Famine Orphan Girls Ships to Australia from Ireland

Famine Orphan Girl Ships to Australia
To Melbourne, Victoria
Ships to Melbourne, Victoria Ship Date of Departure [Plymouth] Date of Arrival
Lady Kennaway 11September 1848 6 December 1848
Pemberton 29 January 1849 14 May 1849
New Liverpool 25 April 1849 9 August 1849
Diadem 13 October 1849 10 January 1850
Derwent 9 November(?) 1849 25/26 February 1850
Eliza Caroline 31 December 1849 31 March 1850

Compiled initially from article by Trevor McClaughlin, 'Barefoot and Pregnant?Female Orphans who emigrated from Irish Workhouses to Australia, 1848-1850', in Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, incorporating Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild 'Newsletter', Vol.2, No.3, 1987, pp.31-36 and updated from shipping lists in New South Wales and South Australia.
Shipping List

Lady Kennaway Arrived 6 December 1848: Admitted to depot 13 December SRNSW 4/4816 Reel 2144 (with thanks to Ada Ackerley, Linda Paoloni and to Dr Pauline Rule) Surname First Name Age Native Place Parents Religion Other
Baird Catherine 14 Letterkenny, Donegal NA RC 1st employed by Mr Howe,clerk, Melbourne, £ 6 pa, 2 years, apprentice. Married Harry Ainsworth Johnstone, ship's steward in Bendigo 5 Feb.1872. No children tho a niece, Rebecca Baird from Donegal joined her in Bendigo in 1865. Husband worked as an agent and traveller. She died Bendigo 10 July 1919
Barrett Jane 17 Sligo NA CofE 1st employed by JT Turnbull, Gippsland £12, 1 yr. May have married Charles Hue in Gippsland in 1849. Later lived in various mining towns in Maryborough area as wife of George Yeomans. Sometimes used the name Sarah,had at least 2 children, died Maryborough 1889.
Baxter Jane 15 Donegal NA CofE employed by Caroline Grigg Melbourne £5, 3 yrs, apprentice
Benson Bridget 16/17 Mayo or Sligo NA RC employed by James Pearson Melbourne £11, 1 yr. Married Bartholomew O'Connor, Sydney 13 Sept. 1862(4), c. 7 children. She died 23 Dec. 1905.
Berne Mary 16 Tuam Galway NA RC Mary Burns(?) see Argus 27 Feb. 1849. Employed by John Bland Elizabeth St. £7 1 yr Argus 22 July 1849 complaint about her.
Boland Margaret 17 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC Employed by Wm Thompson Heidelberg £10 3 mths.
Boyle Biddy 18 Donegal NA RC employed by Charles Manton Melbourne £12 1 yr.
Boyle Ellen 16 Donegal NA RC Empl. Charles Ryan Doogalook Goulbourn River £12 3 mths. Married Wm Calnan Melbourne 1849, 7 children born Kilmore, Longwood, Violet town area, died Violet town 1896.
Boyle Mary 17 Donegal NA Rc Empl. Mr Alfred Ross Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Boyle Mary 14 Galway NA RC Empl. Mr Brodie Chief Constable Melbourne £6 2 yrs apprentice. From Beech Hill near Ballinasloe, married Francis Long, baker, Melbourne 15 May 1854, lived Bendigo area where husband was a miner.
Brady Mary 14 Sligo NA Cof E Empl. Natalie Wickham Melbourne £5 3 yrs
Brennan Catherine 14 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Dennis Edwards Little Bourke St. £5 3 yrs, apprentice, cancelled by Dr Paterson 30 March. Married Alexander Lawrence Melbourne 1854. Sentenced to 6mths gaol in 1865 for robbery.
Brien Catherine 16 Galway NA RC Brian. Empl. by Walter Murphy District Policeman Melbourne £8 3 mths.
Brown Bridget 15 Mayo NA RC Empl. James Barry Elizabeth St. £6 2 yrs apprentice.
Burke Biddy 17 Galway NA RC Empl. Joseph Herring Melbourne £10 6 mths
Burke Catherine 15 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Mr Greene Woodlands £6 2 yrs apprentice. Woodlands homestead in the Shire of Bulla has been restored and is under the protection of the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands. Catherine married Charles Stuart, a trainee naval architect from Belfast at St Francis Church Melbourne 23 Dec 1851. Family gradually moved north into NSW staying at Ballarat, Albury, Breddigowan, Nubba, Wallendbeen, Memagong, Lambing Flats and finally settled in the Harden-Murrumburrah area where they became farmers. Many of their 11 children were born at the various places they stayed as they slowly moved north. Charles died aged 54 and Catherine lived till she was over 90. Both are buried in the Murrumburrah cemetery.
Burke Biddy 16 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Mrs Fulton Melbourne £8 6 mths. Sister of Catherine and Ellen. Descendants of Catherine and Ellen believe Bridget married in Victoria and died young of consumption.
Burke Ellen 14 Belstere Sligo Na CofE Bridget. Empl. John F Falford Melbourne £10 2 yrs. Married Joseph Bell Hardy from Lincolnshire in Melbourne 28 Sept. 1850. They had land in Prahran but then moved through various goldfields in Victoria and NSW including the Lambing Flat area around 1860-61. Ellen had 8 children and died in 1896 at Murrumburrah. Catherine and Charles Stuart followed Ellen and Joseph into NSW. The sisters lived close to each other and kept in close contact throughtout their married lives.
Carden Mary 16 Ballina Mayo NA RC Empl. S Kerr Melbourne £8 6 mths.
Cavanagh Rose 16/17 Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Ellen Dunne Melbourne £9 6mths.
Cleary/Clary Margaret 19 Galway NA RC Empl. William Carroll Russell St. Melbourne £12 6mths
Cogan Mary 20 Mayo NA RC Empl. Gavin Ralston Melbourne £14 p.a. 3mths; married George O'Malley, carpenter and undertaker, c. 1850, c. 6 children, lived Violet Town. According to family stories, Mary smoked a clay pipe. She died in 1904 and is buried in Violet Town. Colleen Arulappu, 10 Pamela Ave, East Keilor 3033.
Cogan Margaret 18 Sligo NA RC Empl.Thomas Aiken, baker, Melbourne £10 6mths
Conaughton Biddy 17 Galway NA RC Empl. Dr Thomas Melbourne £9 1 yr.
Conaughton/Coulaghan Catherine 17 Galway NA RC Empl. RM Tracey Newtown £10 6 mths.
Connell/Connel Kate/Kit 16 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Patrick Devereaux Melbourne £12 1yr.
Connor Mary A 17 Ballinasloe Mayo NA RC Empl. Wm Horton Melbourne £8 6 mths.
Coonningham/Cunningham Biddy 17 Tuam Galway NA RC No disposal recorded
Cook/Cooke Mary 16 Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Kenny, River Plenty £10 1yr.
Costello/Castello Mary 18 Galway NA RC Empl. John Davison Great Bourke St. Melbourne £9 6mths.
Costello/Castello Biddy 18 Maylough Galway NA RC Empl. Mr Magg Collins St. Melbourne £11 6mths.
Coyle Hannah 17 Ballina Mayo NA RC Empl. Mr Cahill Melbourne £12 6mths. Married (1) John Hall Melbourne 1852, 2 children; married (2) Thomas Martell Cox hotelkeeper 21 July 1857, Whitehills, Bendigo area, 7 children. Hannah died 1 March 1877 at Whitehills.
Creran/Curran Nancy 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Thomas Curran South Yarra £10 1yr. Known as Ann in Victoria. Married Daniel Ingram 3 Sept. 1849, husband a grocer in Collingwood Flat, 7 children by 1860. Ann died Royal Melbourne Hospital 19 October 1875.
Crossen Biddy 14 Donegal NA RC Empl. Mr T White Melbourne £6 2 yrs apprentice.
Cuillan/Cuillian Biddy 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Thomas Hanlon Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Culbert/Cuthbert Catherine 18 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Mr McCullen/mCulla Geelong £10 6 mths. Married Wm Swain/Swane in Kilmore 1 Jan 1850, 10 children, died 30 Sept 1899, buried Maryborough. Husbands's estate valued at £307 in 1901.
Cunningham Elizabeth 19 Donegal NA RC Empl. William Kerr Melbourne £13 6 mths.
Curran Mary 19 Hetford Galway NA RC Empl. Mr S Duggan Geelong £12 6 mths.
Curran Judy 19 Hetford Galway NA RC Empl. Mr James Montgomery melbourne £12 1yr.
Curran Sally 17/16 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Mr Thomas Scales Melbourne £8 6mths.
Curran Biddy 17 Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Duggan Geelong £12 6 mths. Born Hedford, married Patrick O'Connor 15 June 1849 Geelong, 4 children by 1864, family settled on a small farm in the Nunawading area.
Davis Mary Ann 17 Ballina Galway NA RC Empl. Peter Young Melbourne £12 6 mths.
Denaley/Deanaley/Donaly Bridget 17 Donegal NA RC Empl. J. Green Collins St. Melbourne £10 6mths.
Devlin/Develin Biddy 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. William Disher Melbourne £12 6 mths. Married Edward Morgan Melbourne 1849, no further info.
Dogherty Mary 16 Donegal NA RC Empl. William Pender, Pender Grove Near Melbourne £6 2 yrs, apprentice.
Dogherty Catherine 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Wm Pender, Penders Grove Nr Melbourne £12 6mths. Married William Rixon 1850, daughter born 1851, no further info.
Dogherty Biddy 14/13 Sligo NA RC Empl. Richard Gallagher Melbourne £6 2 yrs apprentice.
Donnellan Margaret 17 Galway NA RC Empl. Captain McLachlan Melbourne £11 6 mths.
Doyle Mary 17 Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Edward Hobson Yarra Yarra River £10 1 yr.
Doyle Ellen/Helen 18 Sligo NA RC Empl. Arundel Wright Bushy Park £10 6 mths.
Drum Jane 18 Sligo Town NA RC Empl. Mrs Edw. Hobson Yarra Yarra River £12 1 yr. Married Wm Pereira, a gold digger from Portugal 24 March 1855, no further info.
Drum Eliza 17 Sligo NA RC/CofE Empl.Mrs Edw. Hobson Yarra Yarra River £12 6mths. Married Patrick Kelly, a carpenter, later a farmer and gentleman 30 Dec 1851 in Melbourne, 12 children, 6 boys and 6 girls by 18 Sept 1871, lived Melbourne. No further info.
Duffy Bridget 16 Mayo NA RC Empl. Mr Peter McKay Melbourne £11 1 yr.
Duffy Winifred 16 Donegal Daniel and Mary RC Empl. Mrs Longbottom Moonee Ponds £8 1 yr. SeeArgus14 July 1849 cruelly treated by master and mistress. Married Joseph Watson Ward,1853, Melbourne, had one child in Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, 7 April 1854, several more children born to the couple in the Moorabbin area.
Duggan Grace 14 Donegal NA RC Empl. Catherine Dowling Little Collins St. £5 3 yrs, apprentice. Had an illegitimate daughter in Beechworth in 1862.
Dunleary/Dunlevy Margaret 18 Galway NA RC Empl. Margaret Moore/More Newtown £11 6 mths.
Dunn(e) Eliza 17 City of Cork NA CofE Empl. Charles Dutton Melbourne £12 1 yr. See VPRS 521 Melbourne Gaol Unit 1A No. 235
Dever/Divor/Devor Catherine 16 Donegal NA RC Empl. Ellen Stanton Melbourne £8 1yr.
Early Mary 17 Sligo NA RC Empl. Wm O Farrel Melbourne £12 6 mths.
Early Eliza 19 Sligo NA RC Empl. G W Bell Melbourne £12 6 mths.
Early Ann/Alice 15 Sligo NA RC Empl. Mrs Hearndon Melbourne £8 1 yr.
Eagan/Egan Sarah 19 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC Empl. James Murphy Brighton £12 6 mths.
Eagan/Egan Ellen 16 Barney Louth/Cornwall NA RC Empl.A. Wreide Altona £14 6 mths. Married Thomas Wade, a widower, at St Peter's CofE Melbourne 9 Dec. 1850, and St Francis, RC, 2 Feb 1853.
Ellis Elizabeth 17 Donegal NA CofE Empl. E Eagar Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Ellis Catherine 15 Donegal NA CofE Empl. E Eagar Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Fallon Biddy 17 Sligo NA RC Empl. George Groves Queen St. Melbourne £10 6 mths. Married George Bonnett at Christ Church Geelong 25 Dec. 1850, 10 children, husband a labourer and carter, lived Newtown Geelong. She died 20 Feb. 1884 aged 52 yrs, buried Western Cemetery Geelong. Mrs Eileen M Jones, 7 East Court Burwood 3125.
Ferry Bridget 14 Dunfanaghy Donegal NA RC Empl. Henry Delahey Salt Water River £6 2 yrs, apprentice. Admitted to Yarra Bend Asylum 26 April 1851 suffering from dementia. Bridget died at the Asylum 23 August 1851, or was she released 'cured' 8 Dec. 1851? (discrepancy in records).
Folliott Mary 19 Sligo NA RC Empl. Henry Crossley Melbourne £12 1 yr.
Folliott Mary 18 Sligo NA RC Empl. Margaret Doyle Melbourne £12 6 mths.
Forbes Bessy 16 Mayo NA RC Empl. James Connel Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Ford Mary 17 Sligo NA RC Empl. Francis J McDonnel Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Fox Mary 16 Mayo/Town of Donegal NA Rc Empl. S McIvor Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Gardiner Jane 16 Mayo/Sligo NA CofE Empl. Mr [Mee]son(?) Musician Melbourne £10 6mths.
Geraghty Mary 17 Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Fitzgerald Collins St. £8 1 yr.
Gillespie/Gilespie Bridget 16 Sligo NA RC Empl. David Houston Melbourne £9 6 mths.
Gillon Sally 15 Town of Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs Cantlin Melbourne £6 2 yrs, apprentice.
Golden Bessy 15 Sligo NA RC Empl. William Harwood Elizabeth St. £6 2 yrs, apprentice.
Golden Ann 16 Sligo NA CofE Empl. W Empson, ironmonger, Melbourne £9 1yr. returned from Hospital went out 3 June. Married Edward Fletcher Melbourne, 1853, at least 6 children born in various Victorian Gold mining areas. Ann died 1869.
Gollagher/Gallagher Biddy 19 Galway/Donegal NA RC Empl. Edward Curr, St Hilliers, £14 6mths. From Donegal, married John McCahery (b. Fermanagh) Melbourne 1849, several children born in the Bylands area near Kilmore where family had a farm. Ellen died in 1872.
Gollagher Ellen 18 Galway/Donegal NA RC Empl. T B Townland Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Gordon Bessy 16 Mayo NA RC Empl. S A Kyte Bourke St. £6 2 yrs apprentice.
Catherine Gordon 15 Ballina Mayo NA RC Empl. Ann Muir Queen St. Melbourne £5 3 yrs, apprentice.
Gormally Honor 17 Mayo/Co. Galway NA RC Empl. John McKie Melbourne £10 1yr.
Gorman Margaret 15 Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs Enson Melbourne £(?) 1 yr. VPRS 115 Superintendent Correspondence inwards, vol. 4 50/93 re her "imbecility", includes copies of letters from Ireland. VPRS 117 Superintendent Letters to Colonial Secretary, 50/61. Married James Walker a labourer Melbourne mid 1849, 2 children by 1854.
Grady Bessy 16 Sligo NA RC Empl. W Hatch Collins St. Melbourne £14 1 yr.
Green Eliza 15 Sligo/Round Tower Ireland NA RC Empl. Mr Hutton Darebin Creek £6 6mths apprentice.
Hamilton/Hammilton Ellen 16 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Mrs Burns Pascoville £7/10/- 6mths.
Hogg Ellen 17 Queen's/Co. Donegal NA CofE Empl. David Mathews Melbourne £9 6 mths.
Hopkins Caroline 19 Sligo/Queen's county NA CofE Empl. Alex S Duncan Bulleen £10 6 mths.
Hughes Margaret 16 Galway/Mayo NA RC Empl. Mrs Cantlin Melbourne £6 2 yrs apprentice.
Hughes Biddy 18 Donegal/Galway NA RC Empl. T Power Yarra Yarra £6 1 yr.
Hughes Margaret 18 Galway NA RC Empl. T Power Yarra Yarra £8 1 yr. Married John Wallis, a labourer, in Melbourne 2 Oct. 1851, 4 children by 1858, no further info.
Kearns Mary 16 Sligo NA RC Empl. Henry James Bacchus Marsh £12 6 mths. Mary Alice born Ballynacarra/Ballincarrow, married Matthew Kemp (b. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk) 19 March 1850 St James Melbourne c. 9/10 children, moved to Commercial Road, Prahran/South Yarra in 1853 where the couple remained until their death. Matthew died 31 May 1886, Mary 28 Dec. 1900. Sue Kemp, 24 Elaroo Ave., Camberwell, 3124.
Kelly Catherine 14 Donegal NA Rc Empl. Charles Howard Darebin Creek £10 6 mths.
Kelly Elizabeth 15 Sligo NA RC Empl. Major Firebrace Melford £9 1 yr. Married 1: John Holland Melbourne 1850 4 children before husband died in 1872. Married 2: James Ogden Melbourne 23 Nov. 1875. She died 1879.
Kelly Catherine/Katherine 16 Leitrim NA RC Empl. Mrs White Melbourne £10 1 yr.
Kelly/Crewey(?) Mary 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Dr Cussen Melbourne £10 1 yr.
Kelly Margaret 17 Donegal NA RC Empl. J T Smith Melbourne £10 6mths.
Kelly Ann 19 Donegal NA RC Empl. Dr Patterson Melbourne £11 3 mths. Married Edward Bedford Melbourne 30 July 1850, husband a groom later a grocer, 5 children by 1860, Lived Melbourne till her death in May 1897. Writes a letter to her mother shortly after her arrival in Melbourne giving her good news. See Barefootvol 2.docs. pp124-5. (National Library of Ireland MS 1340012).
Kelly Catherine 19 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC/CofE Empl. C Howard Darebin Creek £10/10/- 6mths.
Kenny Mary 18 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC Empl. Mr O'Connor Melbourne £12 6 mths.
Kenny Biddy 18 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC Empl. Alex McCrae Melbourne £10 6 mths. Mrs Joyce Shepherd PO Box 70 Uranga 2455.
Kenny Catherine 17 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Sweetman Melbourne £10 9 mths.
Kildea/Glente(?) Margaret 18 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC Empl. Mr Fitzgibbon Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Kildea Ann 17 Donegal NA RC Empl. H Short Melbourne £10 1 yr.
Kildea/Gildae or Gilday Biddy 15 Glenally Donegal NA RC Empl. Elizabeth Dene Swanston St. £10 6 mths.Married Englishman Nathan Page in St Paul's Melbourne 1 October 1853, 9 children. Best man at the wedding was Richard Morgan who had married Margaret Kildea in 1851 (see above, perhap's Bridget's sister?). Nathan was a limeburner on the Peninsula and had a kiln at Rye. The family lived at various places from Point Nepean to Dromana at a time when most homes were bark huts. Nathan died 1899. Bridget continued to live with her daughter in West Melbourne. She died in 1917. Mrs Carmel Burnett, 16 Botany Court, Clarinda 3169.
Kinchilla/Kinchella Isabella 14 Donegal (Letterkenny) Enoch & Ann Chambers RC Empl. Edward Vernon, Melbourne £5 3 yrs, apprentice. Married William Cooper (b. London) Melbourne 24 March 1852, 3 children in the Fryer's Creek District by 1857. By 1860 had taken up with James Dooley (b. Newry) with whom she had c. 10 children, some registered, some not. The family lived at Green Gully near Vaughan.James died in 1880. Isabella may have married William Tasker in February 1889. Isabella died 31 October 1911 at Castlemaine Hospital. Keith Murley, Mungalls Cres. Blairgowrie 3942.
King Martha 19 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Henry James, Bacchus Marsh £12 6 mths. Married Michael Casey Melbourne 1850, 7 children by 1871, lived in various towns around Maryborough.
Knox Mary 16 Mayo NA RC Empl. Mary Knox(??) £10 1 yr.
Lambert Eliza 17 Jamaica West Indies NA CofE Empl. J H Anderson Melbourne £9 3 mths.
Lawler Ann 16 Rathfraham/Rathfanham Galway NA RC Empl. Andrew Russell £10 1yr.
Lawn Alice 16 Donegal NA RC Empl. Edward Curr, St Helliers £6 2 yrs apprentice. Married William Handcock/Hancock 10 Sept. 1849 at St Francis Church Melbourne, 2 children, settled near Ballarat. Mrs Colleen Carter (address below); Ken McInnes, 53 Aurum Cres., Ringwood North 3134.
Lawn Eleanor 18 Donegal Edward Lawn & Norah Cunningham, sister of Sarah (below) & Alice (above?). RC Married James Lynch in Melbourne 17 Feb. 1850, husband a miner at Cochrans & Landsborough, 11 children by 16 August 1867, died 25 Dec. 1913, buried Landsborough. Mrs Colleen Carter, 45 Edinburgh Cres., St Andrews 2566; Ken McInnes, (address above).
Lawn Sarah 19 Donegal Edward Lawn & Norah Cunninghame RC Empl. Mrs Lyddy Queen St., £12 6 mths. Married Thomas Plunkett, Parkhurst exile, Melbourne 18 Dec. 1849, lived Geelong and Landsborough, c. 2 children. She was a midwife in the Landsbrough district and died 7 Sept. 1913. Mrs Colleen Carter, (address above); Ken McInnes (address above).
Leonard Mary 17 Galway NA RC Empl. Robert Jacomb Melbourne £12 1 yr.
Loftus Margaret 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. George Groves Melbourne £10 6mths.
Loftus Mary 16 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Johanna Loftus, Melbourne £6 2 yrs apprentice.
Loftus Honor 17 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Mr Shoobridge Melbourne £9 6mths.
Lyons Mary 16 Tuam (Climan?) Galway NA RC Empl. William Wright Melbourne £9 6mths.
Lyons Biddy 15 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Toomey Queens St. £6 2 yrs apprentice.
McAleer/McAteer Mary 14 Ballinasloe Galway/Kilagnovan(?) NA RC Empl. William Tobin Melbourne £5 3 yrs apprentice.
McAward Margaret 17 Donegal NA RC Empl. Mr Croker Melbourne £11 1yr.
McCormack Ann 14 Galway NA RC Empl. James Craig Police Paddock £5 3 yrs apprentice.
McCormick Honor 15 Mount Bellew(?) Galway NA Rc Empl. Margaret Allen Queens St. £5 3 yrs apprentice.
McCormick Mary 17 Mount Bellew/Mt Bally Galway NA Rc Empl. Mrs Burns Russell St £9 6 mths.
McDead(e) Mary 18 Donegal NA Rc/CofE Empl. John Hood Chemist Collins St £10 6mths. Married John Johnson Melbourne 1854, 2 children by 1860.
McDead(e) Sarah 16 Donegal NA RC Empl. G Austin Little Bourke St £11 6 mths. Married Andrew Wilson Melbourne 1849, 10 children by 1870, died of exhaustion 19 April 1870, Melbourne Hospital.
McDead(e) Catherine 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Moses Cavanagh Melbourne £10 6 mths.
McDermott Catherine 16 Donegal/Mayo NA RC Empl. E Griffiths Melbourne £11 6 mths.
M(a)cFadden Rose 16 Donegal NA RC Empl. Robert Robinson Melbourne £8 6 mths, Married Alexander Poynton 27 August 1852, 14 children, 2 died in infancy, in various goldmining areas. She died 1920 at Smythesdale.
McGowan/McGorman Catherine 17 Donegal NA RC Empl. James Damyon Glen Ferry £12 6 mths.
McGowan/McGorman Eliza 16 Donegal NA RC Empl. James Damyon Glen Ferry £12 6 mths.
McGowran/McGorman Mary 19 Sligo Town NA RC Empl.James Lynch Melbourne £12 6 mths.
McGuire Catherine 15 Donegal NA RC Empl. John Fitzgerald Melbourne £8 1 yr.
McHale Mary 16/15 Mayo NA RC Empl. Catherine Brophy Melbourne £8 6 mths. Two possibilities here; she may have married James Nowlan Melbourne 1851 and had 9 children, mostly born in the Carisbrook area. Or she married Johannes Paul Dietz at Richmond in 1852 and had 3 children before dying of tuberculosis at Smith St Richmond 22 March 1858. Mrs Isabel McNeil, 24 Duncan Ave., Boronia 3155.
McHugh Catherine 15 Sligo NA RC Empl. John Fitzgerald Melbourne £8 1 yr.
McLachlan Catherine 19/17 Sligo NA RC Empl. V(?) Morgan Melbourne £12 6 mths.
McLean Biddy 18 Mayo NA RC Empl. I H Sullivan Melbourne £11 6 mths.
Maclin Eliza 18 Sligo NA Rc Empl. Mrs Sweetman Melbourne £10 9 mths.
M(a)cMahill Mary 18 Ballymawhil(?) Donegal NA RC Empl. Oliver Johnston Melbourne £12 1 yr.
McMonagh(an) Mary 14 Donegal Na RC Empl. Mary Ann Liddy Melbourne £5 3 yrs apprentice.
McMonagh(an)/McMough Margaret 17 Conwall Nr Letterkenny Donegal NA RC Empl. Mr Short Melbourne £10 6 mths.Married Wm Sheppard, a miner at Boy's Diggings near Tarnagulla, 19 July 1863, at least 2 children, lived Dunolly area.
MacNamarra/Mcamara Elizabeth 17 Mayo NA RC Empl. J Bullen Merri Creek £10 1 yr.
M(a)cNamar(r)a Mary 16 Mayo NA RC Empl. J Bullen Merri Creek £6 1yr.
Mannion Fanny 14 Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Allen Queen St £5 3 yrs. apprentice.
Mitchell Mary 16/17 Ballinasloe Galway NA Rc Empl. Mary Ann Iddler(?) Melbourne £6/10/- 1 yr.
Monaghan Margaret 18/17 Donegal/Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Foot TableTop £10 1 yr. From Galway. Appears to have married a man named Parker in the early 1850s. He died in the late 1850s possibly in the Amherst area. Margaret then lived with Thomas Drake. They eventually married in Talbot, 3 August 1874.
Moran Ann 15 Roscommon NA RC Empl. William Stewart Flinders Lane £8 2 yrs apprentice.
Moran Mary 16 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. John Kennailly Darebin Creek £10 1 yr.
Mulligan Ann 17 Donegal NA RC Empl. John Smith Melbourne £11 6 mths. Married Joshua Barker Melbourne 1849, 6 children at least, born in Melbourne. Ann also known as Hannah, died 1870.
Murray Catherine 16 Galway NA RC Empl. Mr Cowell Melbourne £12 1yr.
Nalis Winifred/Winniford 16 Mayo/Sligo NA RC Empl. Major Firebrace Melford Melbourne £11 1 yr. Probably from Crossmolina, married 21 Sept 1852 Samuel Pickersgill alias Robert Gipson, 9 children. Family stories claim that Winifred ran a canvas tent 'guesthouse' on the banks of the Yarra in 1852 in the early days of the goldrush. They lived Melbourne, Leeds, England, French Island, Churchill Island and San Remo, Western Port. Winifred's hard work and comfort was undermined and their land lost by her husband's drinking and gambling. She died in 1891. Laurie Thompson, 14 Amber grove, Mt. Waverley 3149.
Neil(l) Bridget 18 Sligo/Ballinasloe NA RC Emplo. W Cogan Melbourne £12 6mths. Married Matthew Donelly Melbourne 1849, 4 children by 1858, lived Dandenong, husband a farmer in 1858. Bridget died in 1862.
O'Hara Mary 17 Galway/Crossmolina, Mayo NA RC Empl. Mr Norman, brewer, Melbourne £12 6 mths. Married John Richard Bermingham also from Mayo, August 1849, 12 children. Beverley Garry, 14 Hill St., Wareemba 2046.
O'Loughlin/O'Laughlin Bessy 15 Sligo/Galway NA RC Empl.Richard Grimes, Cnr. King & Bourke Streets £6 2 yrs apprentice.
Patten Margaret 18 Conwall Donegal NA RC Empl. Denis Costigan Geelong £12 6mths. Married John Shannahan in Geelong 16 Apr. 1849., 11 children by 27 May 1866, died 8 August 1913.
Patten Mary 17 Galway/Conwall Donegal NA RC Empl. William Candy Geelong £12 6 mths.
Pavey Susan 15 Donegal/Sligo NA RC Empl. M Cadden Post Office Melbourne £6 3 mths(?)
Pendergrast Honor 19 Hetfort Galway NA RC Empl. W H Buckley Melbourne £13 6 mths.
Quin Biddy 18 Mayo/Galway NA RC Empl. Mr McDonnel Collins St £10 6 mths.
Reynolds Margaret 15 Sligo/Ballinasloe Galway NA CofE Empl. Wm Lonsdale Melbourne £5 3 yrs apprentice.
Reynolds Mary 16 Galway NA CofE Empl. Mrs F Pitman Melbourne £10 1yr.
Roach Winifred 14 Tuam Galway NA RC Empl. Dr Fletcher Murray Rd. £8 1 yr. Married 1: Parkhurst exile Irishman Henry Cowell, 1850 in Sydney, moved to Ballarat 1852 and had 5 children; deserted by Henry who died in New Zealand in 1863; married 2: Irishman John Thompson in Ballarat in 1859, 8 children (13 children in 20 years). John died in 1875, 4 youngest children sent to an orphanage. Winifred moved to Tilpa near Wilcannia c. 1880 and ran the 'Wee Water Hotel'; married 3: James Colypreast nr Wilcannia 1893, no death recorded. Mrs Ann West, 28 Westlake Drive, MT Ommaney 4074.
Roach Margaret 17 Mayo/Galway NA RC Empl. Robert Russell Melbourne £10 3 mths.
Roan Mary 15 Donegal/Mayo NA Rc Empl. Mr T Woods Melbourne £8 1 yr.
Rodden Jane 16 Ballinasloe Galway/Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs Bignell Melbourne £8 6 mths.
Roland Mary 15 Mayo NA RC Empl. Mrs Cannon Melbourne £10 1 yr.
Rourke Rosey 16 Tuam Galway/Sligo NA Rc Empl. Maria Smith, saddler's wife, Melbourne £8 6 mths.
Ryan Mary 17 Ballinasloe Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Carroll Melbourne £12 1 yr.
Saltry Mary 18 Tereen/Skreen Sligo NA CofE Empl. Mr Duffy Little Collins st £11 1 yr. Married Joseph Thorne, a market gardener of East Brighton, Melbourne 1850, 7 children, died 16 Dec. 1902.
Saltry Terenda/Dorinda 16 Sligo Town NA RC Probably in Dromore West workhouse. Empl. Mr Hailes Heidelberg £12 6 mths. Married Lemuel Ethelred Bryanton St Peter's CE Melbourne 4 Nov. 1850, husband a Pentonvillian from Suffolk, a groom and later, had a horse and Buggy service in Kew; 9 children by 1866; she died 25 Dec. 1867, buried Kew. Muriel McCoy, 25 McCasker Ave., Reservoir 3073.
Saltry Sarah 16 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Patrick Stevenson Chelsworth £10 6 mths. Died Melbourne 1850, aged 17 years.
Sheeran Mary 16 Ballymeath Sligo NA RC Empl. Mr Howe Surveyor Emerald Hill £9 6 mths.
Sheeran Catherine 18 Sligo NA RC Empl. Mr Rycroft Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Smith Margaret 16 Sligo NA Rc Empl. Margaret Prussanan Melbourne £10 1 yr.
Stafford Dorah 16 Donegal NA CofE Empl. G J Giffin Melbourne £8 6mths. Married Henry Booth a labourer, in Melbourne 3 June 1852, 3 children stillborn, 2 male children, died 13 Dec. 1907.
Stafford Jane 14 Donegal NA CofE/RC Empl. Mary Hasset Melbourne £6 2 yrs apprentice. Married Edward T. Mahoney, an iron merchant, later a storekeeper, in Melbourne, 6 June 1851, 9 children by 25 Oct. 1868, no record of death.
Stanton Catherine 16 Mayo NA Rc Empl. Louis Beauteau Melbourne £12 1 yr.
Stanton Mary 16 Mayo NA RC Empl. David Young Collingwood £9 1 yr.
Taniham/Tannian Catherine 14 Galway Father in the colony. Mother's name Byrnes. RC Empl. Mr Murphy Policeman Little Bourke St. £8 1 yr. "Change for her father". Married an Englishman John Woods, 14 years her senior, at St Peter's Melbourne, 10 May 1855, 2 children, only one of whom survived to adulthood, lived Melbourne, Maryborough and Creswick Creek, husband died in 1862 after his leg was amputated. No further info. Bill Glasson, 23 Edzill St. Toowoomba 4350.
Tighe Bridget 16 Mayo NA RC Empl. Mrs A White Melbourne £11 1 yr.
Todd Eliza 14 Ballinasloe Galway NA CofE Empl. Andrew McCrae Arthur's Seat £5 3 yrs apprentice. Married James Blyth, a miner, in Ballarat Sept. 1856, lived Ballarat and Daylesford, 5 female children by 1865, no record of death.
Todd Elizabeth 15 Donegal NA Presbyterian Empl. Mr Kinder Swanston St £8 1 yr.
Toland Catherine 18 Hamilton(Romelton?) Donegal James Tol(l)and & Elizabeth McDermott RC Empl. Catherine Roache Bourke St £6 2 yrs. Married a labourer, Michael Murphy, in Melbourne 2 Jan 1850, lived Collingwood, Taradale and Ararat, 11 children only 3 of whom survived to adulthood. Four children were burnt to death in a shepherd's hut at Gledfield Station, Ross Bridge in 1863. The children are buried on a rise overlooking the bank of the Wannon River. Catherine died 20 Nov. 1899 and was buried in Kerang. A devout Catholic, she said she had suffered her purgatory on earth and would surely go staight to heaven. Her husband a Beijeroop farmer left an estate of £225 in 1882. Margaret Mueller, 8/25 Byron St, Elwood 3184.
Toland Sarah 15 Milford Donegal James & Elizabeth McDermott RC Empl. Catherine Roche Bourke St £6 2 yrs apprentice. Sister of Catherine above. Married Charles McCarthy in 1852 and lived in the vicinity of Ross Bridge most of her life. Both buried Ararat cemetery. Margaret Mueller, address above.
Tyrel(l) Catherine 16 Castle Blackney Donegal NA RC Empl. Edward Pope Melbourne £10 6 mths. Married Frederick Elmore Taylor, a bricklayer, in Melbourne 2 May 1854, 7 children, died 19 April 1900.
Walsh Mary 14 Galway NA RC Empl. Maria Jerome £5 3 yrs apprentice.
Walsh Celia 16 Galway NA RC Empl. Martha Lunn Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Waters Ann 14 Sligo NA RC Empl. Mr Henriques Melbourne £10 3 mths.
Whelan Mary 16 Dublin NA RC Empl. Edward Langhorn Corio £9 1 yr.
Wray Eliza 17 Donegal NA CofE Empl. John Hood Melbourne £10 6 mths. Married Thomas William Kincaid in Melbourne 26 Nov 1850, shown as Rae. The couple had 9 children, 3 sons, 6 daughters. She died 8 May 1880 at Musk Vale, Wombat, Mt Franklin, Victoria, and is buried at the Blanket Flat General Cemetery. Joy Roy, 72, Sharps Rd., Tullamarine 3043.



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PEMBERTON; arrived 14 May 1849, admitted to depot 26 May SRNSW 4/4816 Reel 2144(with thanks to Ada Ackerley, Linda Paoloni and Dr Pauline Rule) Surname First Name Age Native Place Parents Religion Other
Anderson Jane 15 Dublin NA RC Empl. A. O'Mullane Queen St. £5, 3 yrs,apprentice. Jane was from the Royal Hibernian Military School (hereafter RHMS). On this see A.W. Cockerill's website http://www.achart.ca./hibernian/pemberton.html For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Armitage Mary 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. M. Toby, Kilmore, £3, 6 mths.
Armstrong Susan 16 Lisneskin (Lisnaskea) Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Mr Grubb £12, 6 mths.
Armstrong Isabella 15 Lisneskin (Lisnaskea) Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Mr Willis Geelong £9, 1 yr.
Ash(e) Isabella 14 Dublin NA RC RHMS. Empl. John Bland Elizabeth St., £6, 6mths.
Barrow Ann 17 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. James Gardner, Elizabeth St., £8, 6 mths. Married Samuel Phillips (who at 17 had been transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing a basket of brassware--his trousers were with the basket when it was found abandoned in an alley) in Melbourne 7 Nov. 1849, 10 children, husband a carrier, digger, cab-operator, shoemaker, storekeeper, lived Brunswick. Their son David became Mayor of Brunswick. Husband's estate valued at £490 in 1876. Ann died 12 Oct. 1900; her estate valued £235. Their family now embraces 22 different nationalities. See Sir Ronald East, A Family's Who's Who, vol. 3 and R. Forde, "The descendants of an Irish orphan in Australia", Mallow Field Club Journal, 1993, pp.67-76. Valerie Yule, 57 Waimarie Drive, Mt Waverly 3149.
Barrow Mary 14 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Bridget Redgood, Melbourne, £5, 3 yrs., apprentice. Married Michael J Doherty, Melbourne, 26 Dec. 1852, husband a digger and miner, 7 children, lived Raglan, Charlton, Avoca, Ararat, died 20 Oct. 1906. See Sir R. East, A Family's Who's Who, vol 3.
Barry Johanna 17/18 Tipperary NA RC Empl. H Connors, carter, Little Bourke St., £10, 6 mths.
Barry Mary 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Wm. Conroy, Merri Creek, £8, 3 yrs., apprentice. Married James Parsell, 1859, 7 children at least, in the area around Kyneton. Mary died in 1876.
Beaty/Beatie Ellen/Eleanor 14 Lisneskie, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. John Haslett, farmer, Monee Ponds, £5, 3 yrs. Married Wm Noble, Melbourne, 1850, at least 5 children by 1863, some in the Blackwood area. Ellen died of typhoid in Blackwood 30 Sept. 1863.
Beavis/Bearis Mary Ann 14 Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Sarah Kerr, upholsterer, Little Colllins st., £6, 2 yrs, apprentice.
Bentley/Bently Honora/Honoria 16 Limerick NA RC To Portland.
Berrigin/Bergin Bridget 14/16 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC To Portland. Married Cornelius Mortimer, Portland Bay, 16 Feb., 1850, husband a quarryman, innkeeper and importer, 7 children by 1860, lived Melbourne, Heidelberg and Smythesdale. No further record.
Bierton/Brierton/Burton(RHMS) Mary 17 Dublin NA RC RHMS(?) Empl. Mary Lawton, Murphy's Brewery, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Birmingham Mary 15 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Skellett, Collins St., £8, 6 mths.
Bohan/Bowen Mary Ann 16 Rosscrea, Tipp. NA RC Empl. Mary King, Melbourne, £7, 6 mths.
Bourke Mary 14/15 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC Empl. Mrs Fitzgerald, Melbourne, £5, 3 yrs.
Bourke Catherine 14 Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Mr McMahoney, farmer, Merri Creek, £5, 3 yrs.
Bowen Mary Anne 16 Queen's county NA RC Empl. Mrs Mary Redfern, Collins St., £8, 1 yr.
Boyle Mary 18 Kilrush, Clare NA RC To Portland. Married John Testrow in Portland in 1851, 5 children by 1859, moved to South Australia, died 9 Jan. 1891, near Mount Gambier.
Brady/Brodie Ellen 16 Clare NA RC Empl. HG Holland, Ryrie St., Geelong, £10, 6mths. Married John Wall, Geelong, 11 Dec. 1852, 5 children, husband a farmer in Batesford, splitter, Dean. She died 12 Jan. 1863, buried Ararat. His estate valued at £640 in 1901. Anne Nolen, 2 Narebar St., Bell Park 3215.
Breen/Briene Judy 18 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC Empl. Mr Paton, Melbourne,£15, 3mths. married Patrick Curren, Melbourne, 1849, 6 children, mostly born in the Brunswick area, by 1860. Judith/Julia died in 1862.
Breen Mary 16 Queen's county Daniel Breen & Ann Brennan RC Empl. Mr Baylin, Portland, £10, 1 yr. Probably married James Hegerty, cabinet maker b. Cork, Portland All Saints, 27 Dec. 1851, c. 4 children. James died 28 March 1858 at Kyneton aged 33. Mary was a nurse, possibly a midwife. She died at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Northcote, Melbourne, 1 May 1922. Pam Johnson, 16 Shakespeare St., Coorparoo 4151.
Brien Mary 19/18 Youghall, Tipperary(!) NA RC Empl. John Mcpherson, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths.
Brien/Bryan Ellen 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Ryan Collins St., £8, 1 yr.
Bryan Charlotte/Catherine 18 Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Ryan Collins St., £10, 1 yr.
Bryan Nancy/Ann 17 Castletown, Limerick NA RC Empl. F. Clay Portland £12, 1 yr.
Bush Mary 19 Limerick NA Rc Empl. John Olive, Collingwood, £14, 9 mths.
Butler Eliza 18 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA Rc Empl. Mr R Crossen, butcher, Bourke St., £12, 6 mths.
Butler Margaret 16 Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Thomas White, Fairfield, £10, 1 yr.
Cahill Ellen 14/13 Mallow, Cork Lawrence Cahill of Doneraile & Catherine Fitzgerald Rc Empl. Edward Cossens, Melbourne £6, 3mths. Married 1: Richard John Doherty c. 1852, 4 children; married 2: Joseph J Chambers in 1870, 1 child. Leslie V Fry, 11 Logan St., Canterbury 3126; Mrs TM Butcher, 3 Tania Crt., Pakenham 3810.
Cahill Jane/Johanna 17 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Mr Cusworth, Melbourne,£10, 3 mths. Oral tradition in Johanna's family suggests the three Cahills were sisters.
Cahill Johanna 17 Mallow, Cork Lawrence Cahill of Doneraile & Catherine FItzgerald RC Born 26 Jan. 1829. She had two brothers and sister Ellen above. Empl. Mary Bourke, Melbourne, £8, 6mths. Married John Henry Moon (b. Cornwall 1836) in Melbourne c. 1853, 3 children; she died Melbourne Hospital 30 Dec. 1881. Leslie V Fry, 11 Logan St., Canterbury 3126.
Cain/Keane Bridget 19 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. John Gamble, Portland, £12,1 yr. Married John McCashney in Portland, 25 Jan. 1851, husband a miner at Castlemaine, later a farmer at Bullarto. They had 10 children. She died 6 March 1898, buried Trentham. JG McChasney, 5 Bruce St., Mt Waverley 3149.
Carboy Margaret 17 Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Margaret Kelly, Brunswick St., £8, 6 mths.
Carboy Bridget 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Harriet Drew, Collingwood, £6, 2 yrs, apprentice.
Carty/Cartey/(RHMS Curtey) Mary 17 Dublin NA CofE RHMS Empl. Charles Howard, Darebin Creek, £10, 3 mths.
Cavenagh/Cavanah Margaret 16 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Monke, Stephen St., Melbourne, £6, 2 yrs.
Cash Mary 16 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC To Portland.
Cassan Ellen 18 Rosscrea, Limerick NA RC Empl. Judy Fox, Melbourne, £9, 6mths.
Cassedy/Cassidy Biddy 18 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Mrs Cousins, Richmond for Portland, £12, 3 mths.
Clagherny Bridget 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mary Barker, Bourke St., £5, 3 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Clark Augusta/Elizabeth 14/16 Fort Augusta, Jamaica NA CofE Empl. Mrs Binns, Saltwater River, £9, 1 yr. Married William H Binns, 12 March 1851, 9 children, died Swan Hill 30 June 1909. John C Binns, 11, St James Ave, Mt Albert 3127; Neil Thomson, 21 Tocumwal Rd., Numurkah 3636; Valma Pye, 8 Valentine St., Bendigo, 3550.
Cleary Bridget 18 Carley(?) Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Pegg, Heidelberg, tinsmith, Buckingham St., £11, 6 mths.
Clune Bridget Mary 16 Limerick NA RC To Portland. Married Wm Wagland, Portland 25 July 1850, 11 children, husband a carrier, lived Portland and Heywood, died 16 Dec. 1909.
Coffey Mary 16 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Nathan, Elizabeth St., £12, 6 mths. Married John Dwyer, Melbourne, 4 March 1851(?), 8 children by 1868, husband a farmer, lived Kilmore, no further record.
Collins Marianne 15 Limerick NA RC Empl. Ann Bosford, Melbourne, £6, 2 yrs., apprentice.
Collins Catherine 14 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mrs Cadden, Post Office, Melbourne, £5, 3 yrs., apprentice.
Collins Mary 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. John McDonald, shoemaker, Elizabeth St., £9, 6mths.
Conarty/Comarty Christina/Charlotte 15 Cork NA CofE Empl. Mr Devine, La Trobe St., £6, apprentice.
Connell Biddy 16 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. I Migane(?), Portland £8, 1 yr. See Public Record Office of Victoria(PROV) VPRS 32/4 No 130 Letter from her brother Martin.
Connolly/Conolly Judy 17 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Mrs Lewis, Darebin Creek, £10, 6 mths.
Connolly/Conolly Ellen 14 Tipperary NA Rc Empl. James O'Leary, tailor, Little Bourke St., £5, 4 yrs. apprentice.
Connor/Connors Ellen 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Margaret Duffus, Bourke St., £8, 1 yr.
Connor Julia 18 Dublin NA CofE RHMS. Empl. C. Brentani, jeweller, Melbourne, £9, 6 mths.
Connor/Connors Peggy 16 Tipperary NA Rc Empl. H Gardiner, Russell St., Melbourne, £10, 3 mths.
Connors Mary 16 Tipperary NA Rc Not on disposal List. See State Records NSW Immigration Correspondence 49/696 26 October 1849 answering enquiry of Patrick Connor of Dungog.
Cooley/Cowey Mary 19 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Henry Dellehay, Keilor, £11, 1 yr.
Corrigan/Corrigon Mary Jane 16 Dublin NA CofE Empl. Richard H Bunbury, Harbour Master, Williamstown, £10, 3 mths. Married Daniel McCarthy, Melbourne, 22 Nov. 1854, no further information.
Courtney Honora 14 Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Elizabeth Conolly, Melbourne, £5, 3 yrs.
Cowley/Cawley Margaret 18 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Margaret Kennedy, Swanston St., £10, 6 mths.
Creggan/Creegan Jane 18 Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Richard O'Cock, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths. Married Richard Wilson, Melbourne, 3 June, 1850, at least 5 children, mostly born Doncaster area. Jane died Collingwood 1899.
Creighton Mary 18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Martin Bourke, Little Bourke St., £9, 1 yr. Married Ferdinand McCrory, Melbourne, 1851, 8 children at least, mostly born in the Maryborough/Alma area. Mary was living in Alma in 1885 when she was admitted to the Alma Hospital.
Crenan/Cronan Catherine 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mr Benson, Little Bourke St., £10, 1 yr.
Croughlin/Coughlan Julia 17 Cork NA RC Empl. Mr Gilmore, carpenter, Little Bourke St., £7, 6 mths.
Crow Margaret 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Keane, baker, Great Bourke St., £8, 3 mths.
Crow Mary 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr O'Shanassy, Melbourne, £10, 1 yr.
Cummins Margaret 16 NA NA RC To Portland. Married John Jones, butcher, Melbourne, early 1850, 4 children by 1867, lived in the Footscray area in the 1860s. Admitted to lunatic asylum in 1872.
Curley Catherine 17 Icher(?), King's NA RC Empl. P. Duggan, Geelong, £12, 6 mths.
Curley Sally 14 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Greene, Collins St., £6, 2 yrs. Hospital. Henry Brown, Customs Office, 29 Jan 1850.
Currey/Curry Eliza 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mr Johnson, boot and shoemaker, Collins St., £7, 1 yr.
Curtin Margaret 17 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Mr Forster, Taitalia, £10, 1 yr.
Daley Catherine 14 Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Mr Croston, Little Collins St., £5, 3 yrs. Probably married Scot Alexander Gardner (shipwright and later a builder) in Williamstown in 1857, 9 children, buried Williamstown. Helen Saifert, 17 Ian Grove, Burwood, 3125.
Daley Mary 17 Kilkie, Clare NA RC Empl. Catherine Jackson, South Yarra, £8, 6 mths.
Darcey Mary 16 Kilrush, Clare NA RC To Portland. See PROV VPRS 115 Superintendent Correspondence inwards, unit 2, 49/340, 1 Nov. 1849 from Police Magistrate Portland. She has lost one of her limbs. Result, 'the poor girl must be cared for somehow...' Admitted Melbourne Benevolent Asylum late 1849, died there in 1898.
Darcey Eliza/Mary 14 Clare Cornelius D. & Mary McEwertney(?) RC To Portland. Married Patrick Howard, gold digger, Ballarat, 6 August 1855, 12 children born in the mining areas around Ballarat, buried Geelong, 24 August 1920. r.ollerton[at]hotmail.com trying to confirm details.
Davis Mary 18 Cork NA CofE Empl. Mr John Clarke, Bourke St., £9, 6 mths.
Dawney/Downey Mary Ann 15 Mullingar, Westmeath NA RC Empl. Thomas Purvis, Melbourne, £5, 3 yrs., apprentice. Victoria Police Gazette 3 Jan. 1856, page 7 missing friends formerly in the Royal Hibernian School and has since married a shoemaker. Married Wm. Saunders, at least 6 children born in the Footscray area by 1871.
Dogherty Ellen 17 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Robert Baxter, Pentridge, £9, 6 mths.
Dogherty Mary 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Murphy, Little Bourke St., £7, 1 yr.
Donnolly/Donelly Jane 16 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Edward Bell, Richmond, £8, 1 yr. Married John Galley an 'exile' from Essex in St Peter's in Melbourne 8 July 1850, 10 children. She died in Hawthorn 14 Sep. 1911, buried Kew. Mrs Lyn Hampel, 12 Wimmera Cres., Keilor Downs, 3038.
Donohue/Donohoe Mary 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. James Neilson, Western Port, £9,1 yr.
Donohue/Donohoe Maria 16 Cork NA CofE Empl. Mrs Cadden, Post Office, Melbourne, £5, 3 yrs.
Doyle Mary 17 Keen, Queen's NA RC Empl. W. Gay, Melbourne, £9, 3 mths.
Doyle Mary 17 Cork NA RC Empl. Stephen M Bell, Melbourne, £7, 6 mths.
Duane/Duannan Ellen 19 Cork NA RC Empl. W Humphrey, Portland, £12, 1 yr.
Duggin Ellen 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Ellen Shortate, Richmond, £5, 3 yrs.
Dunbar Ellen 18 Fermanagh NA; CofE Empl. John Crow, Darebin Creek, £10, 6 mths. Married Henry Allison, a boot and shoemaker in Richmond, 21 Dec. 1852, 12 children, lived Taraville, died 30 April 1902.
Dunbar Ellen 14 Cork NA CofE Empl. L Butterworth, Collins St., £6, 6 mths. Married James Diston, Collingwood, 19 Feb. 1853, 11 children, husband a miner, lived Sandy Creek and Tarnagulla, died 16 Feb. 1903.
Dwyer Ann 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Patrick Purcell, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
Dwyer Jane 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Alice Maier, Elizabeth St., £9, 6 mths.
Egan Judy 18 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC Empl. Michael O'Shea, Stephen St., £8, 1 yr. Julia Egan married George Williams, Melbourne, had 7 children in Melbourne, Ballarat, Ararat, and Great Western. Julia died in Stawell in 1909.
Evans Mary 17 Cork NA CofE Empl. James York, Spring St., £6, 1 yr.
Evans Mary E./Mary Ann 14 Aberdeen NA CofE Empl. Mrs Giffin, Little Collins St., £6, 2 yrs apprentice. Married a labourer in Geelong 25 Dec. 1850, husband a carter and farmer, 10 children, lived at Geelong, died 20 Feb. 1884.
Fallon/Fallan Bridget 18 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC Empl. J C Cruger, Flinders St., £12, 6 mths.
Farrel Margaret/Mary 14 Tipperary NA RC Empl. John O'Shanassy, Melbourne, £8, 3 yrs., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Feeley/Feely Ellen 18 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. J. Finn, Portland, £12, 6 mths.
FitzGerald Margaret 20/18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mrs Pemberton, Collins St., £12, 6 mths.
FitzGerald Margaret 14/18 Queen's NA RC Empl. William Disher, Little Collins St., £10, 1 yr.
FitzGerald Maria 14/15 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC Empl. Rose Kenealy, grocer, Bourke St., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice.
FitzGerald Mary 18 Queen's NA RC Empl. Susannah Harrison, Melbourne, £7, 6 mths.
Fleming/Flemming Grace 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Patrick O'Brien, Little Bourke St., £8, 6 mths.
Flinn/Finn Mary 17 Limerick NA RC Empl. John Powell, Collins St., £8, 1 yr. Married James Blake, Melbourne, 1850, 3 children born in the early 1850's in Melbourne, no further information.
Flinn/Flynn Susan 14 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Ellen Stanton, Stephen St., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice.
Flynn Jane 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Smith, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Fogarty Catherine 15 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Locke, Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths.
Fogarty Ann 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Bailey, surveyor, Swanston St., £11, 6 mths. Married John Purchase, a waiter, Melbourne, 24 Nov. 1851, 4 children, lived Prahran. She died a servant, of an abscess of the liver and exhaustion 9 August 1872, buried St. Kilda.
Foley Sarah 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. W Frazer, Portland, £12, 6 mths.
Forster/Foster Eliza 15 Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Mr Egerton, Ballarat, £10, 1 yr.
Fox Mary 14 Rosscrea, Limerick(!) NA RC Empl. Mary Buckley, Stephen St., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice.
Gallery Ellen 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. Peter Tighe, Eastern Hill, £7, 6 mths.
Galvin Margaret 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Reid, draper, Collins St., £10, 6 mths. Married an ex-convict James Winwood/Windwood/Winward Melbourne 30 Dec 1850, 11 children, lived Darebin, Janefield and Separation, died 27 April 1889, buried Morang.
Gardener Honor 17 Drumbannagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Waldia Johnston, Collins St., £9, 6 mths.
Gardener/Gardiner Margaret 15 Aberdeen NA CofE Empl. Margaret Montgomery, Melbourne £10, 3 mths. Married John Boyland, an engine driver, in Melbourne 7 March 1850, 13 children, lived Sandhurst, died 13 Nov. 1899, buried Boroondara cemetery. In 1895 Margaret inherited John's personal estate of £96 and the allotment of land and house at Bray St., Little Iron Bark, Bendigo. Her estate was valued at £219 in 1899.
German/Gorman Ellen 14 Rosscrea,Tipperary NA RC Empl. Joshua Black, Portland, £10, 6 mths. As Ellen Gorman married John Adams in 1856, died June 1858 of bleeding after childbirth at Yangery outside Portland.
Gilfoyle Catherine 19 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Joseph Harpen, Spring St., £10, 3 mths.
Gilfoyle Susan 17 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. James Robertso, Portland, £12, 1 yr.
Gilfoyle/Guilfoyle Eliza 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Maloney, Bourke St., £10, 6 mths.
Gilkison Margaret 16 Monaghan NA RC Empl. Richard O'Cock, solicitor, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Gleeson Bridget 15/16 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Thomas Hunt, Lonsdale St. Returned to Depot. Probably born 2 Feb 1833, married James Burrows at Gawler 12 Jan 1852, 11 children, lived Ballarat, Moorabbin-Brighton area, and the Avoca area of the Wimmera district. James died in 1902. Bridget Annie Burrows died 9 June 1908 at the home of her daughter Lydia at Flemington and was buried at Avoca. David S Allen, 22 Greenock Cres, Wantirna 3156.
Gleeson Margaret 16 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. James O'Connell, Collingwood, £9, 6 mths.
Gleeson Biddy 15/16 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Devine, Latrobe St., £6, 2 yrs, apprentice.
Gleeson Ellen 14 Tipperary NA RC Empl. John MacDonald, Elizabeth St., £9, 6 mths.
Glover Ellen 15 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Ellen Honor Lacey, Little Lonsdale St., £5, 3 yrs. Married Joseph Kennedy, Melbourne, 1851, at least 6 children born by 1876 in the Carisbrook area. Ellen died in Carisbrook 1912.
Golding/Golden(?) Mary 18 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. D McKinnon, Portland, Henty, £14, 1 yr.
Gordon Ann 14 Dublin NA RC RHMS(?) National Archives of Ireland (NAI) BG79/G/2 No. 910 South City workhouse indoor register, 11 years, old clothes, deserted, entered 19 Nov. 1845, left 13 Jan 1849. Empl. Charlotte Harris, Collins St., £5, 4 yrs, apprentice. Married Joseph Geary in Richmond 30 Jun 1858, 7 children, husband an Inspector of Denominational Schools and journalist. She died 12 July 1909.
Gorman Judy 16 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. A Claxton, Portland, £8, 6 mths.
Grace Mary 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Patrick Hayes, grocer, Little Collins St., £10, 1 yr.
Green(e) Mary 14 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Dennis Ryan, Collins St., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice.
Grillisk Jane 16 Devonshire NA RC Empl. H Condell, Melbourne, £10, 1 yr.
Hall Mary Elizabeth 15 Cork NA CofE Empl. Graham Finlayson, Little Collins St., £8, 1 yr. Married Samuel Johnson, bullock driver, Roseneath, Gippsland, 27 May 1851, lived Bairnsdale, Lindenow and Stratford, c. 11 children. She died in Fitzroy, Melbourne 14 Oct. 1896.
Hall Mary 17 Cork NA CofE Empl. Mrs Frencham, Melbourne, £6, 1 yr.
Halloran Honora 15 Tipperary NA CofE/RC Empl. John Moodie, Collingwood, £8, 6 mths.
Harney Margaret 18 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Wm Bloxham, farmer, Heidelberg, £13, 6 mths.
Harris Jane 17 Cork NA CofE Empl. Mrs Cadden, Post Office, Spring St., £6, 1 yr.
Hayes Honora 17 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Edward Parsons, carter, Newtown, £8, 6 mths. In hospital.
Head Margaret 14 Limerick NA RC Empl. Michael Garraty, grocer, Newtown, £5, 3 yrs, apprentice.
Head Ellen 18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Isaac Lazarus Lincoln, Collingwood, £14, 1 yr.
Head Mary 14/16 Limerick NA RC Empl. Phillip Maine, Bourke St., £8, 1 y.r
Head Sarah 14/12 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mr Clark, printer, 'Gazette' office, Melbourne, £5, 2 yrs. See The Argus 13 Nov. 1849, 'Shameful treatment of an Orphan girl'. Reproduced in Barefoot vol. 2, p.45.
Heuley/Henly Bridget 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mary Kennedy, grocer, King St., Melbourne, £7, 1 yr.
Heuley/Hanley Catherine 21 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mrs Westby, Melbourne, £14, 3 mths.
Heuley/Henley Ellen 19 Limerick NA RC 7 years at lace factory. Empl. Ann Williams, Melbourne, £14, 3 mths.
Hickey Sarah 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Thomas McCombie, Collins St., £10, 6 mths.
Hogan Bridget 16/17 Lewin(?), Tipperary NA RC Empl. Denniss McNamara, Little Collins St., £8, 1 yr.
Holey/Hooley Mary 16 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Jane Hayward, butcher, Flinders Lane, £8, 6 mths.Per Raven to Port Fairy. As Hooley married John Radley, Belfast (Port Fairy) 7 May 1850, 12 children, died 29 Sept. 1911.
Honan Catherine 17 Limerick NA RC Empl. Elizabeth Anderson, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths.
Howe Marianne 16 Dublin NA CofE RHMS(?) NAI BG/79/G/3 No 4812 South City workhouse, entered 14 Oct. 1847, left 17 March 1848; BG/79/G/5 No 1013 very old clothes, South City, Kevin St., entered workhouse 10 Oct. 1848, left 13 Jan 1849. Empl. Ann Davis, Swanston St., £8, 6 mths. Married 1: John Brown, a bootmaker, Melbourne, 14 March 1850, 12 children, lived Camperdown and Cobden; married 2: John Lee, 26 May 1879; died 13 Jan 1907. Lorraine Phelan, 5 James Cook Drive, Wandana Hts., 3216.
Hughes Theresa 14 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. R W Steiglitz, Ballan, £8, 2 yrs, apprentice. Married Wm Morgan, Geelong, 20 Oct. 1852, 12 children, husband a farmer, Ballarat, and hotel keeper, 'Miner's rest'. She died 22 August 1892, buried Ballarat.
Hughes Mary 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Honor Tracey, Little Lonsdale St., £6, 2 yrs.
Hughes Eliza 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. M Davis, Elizabeth St., £9, 6 mths.
Kaffalq Mary 18 Tipperary NA RC Not on disposal list.
Keane Bridget 19 NA NA RC Empl. John Gamble, Portland £12, 1 yr.
keating/Keagan Mary Ann 15 Dublin Patrick and Eliza RC RHMS(?) NAI BG79/G/3 No 446, South Dublin workhouse, Mary Keegan, 12 yo, admitted with her father Patrick, widower, mother Eliza dead, old clothing, resident in South City, admitted 13 Jan 1847, discharged 13 Jan 1849. BG79/G/3 No 445 Patrick Keegan, 34, widower, railway guard, adm. 14 Jan 1847, died 28 May 1847. Empl. Mrs Daly, Moonee Ponds, £5, 3 yrs. Married 1: Samuel Rudgley 7 Jan 1850, Melbourne, at least two children by 1854, Melbourne and Avoca. Samuel died 1855. Married 2: Wm Henry Carter, 1862, 2 more children registered by 1876, Castlemaine and Maldon.
Keefe Mary 18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Peter McCoy, Melbourne, £11, 1 yr.
Keefe/McKeefe Catherine 18 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Daniel Cronan, Swanston St., Melbourne, £10, 1 yr.
Keenan/Kenna Mary 18 Tipperary NA RC Empl. J Bowles, grocer, Flinders St., £8, 1 yr.
Keenan/Kenan Mary 18 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Falford, Swanston St., £10, 6 mths.
Keenan/Kenan Margaret 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Wm O'Connor, Woodstock, £6, 2 yrs.
Keenan/Kenan Catherine 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. James Rogers, Little Bourke St., £10, 6 mths, cancelled-public house. Mr McMichael, Richmond, £10, 6 mths.
Kelly Ann 21/18 Derry NA CofE Empl. Richard Grice, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths. Married Robert Johnson, Melbourne, 19 Feb 1852, living in Richmond Flat when first baby born in 1853, 6 more children born in the Collingwood area by 1865. Ann died in 1879.
Kelly Bridget 19 Mulloch, Clare NA RC Empl. Patrick O'Brien, Lonsdale St., £12, 1 yr.
Kelly/Kyley Catherine 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. L A Beurleaux, Little Collins St., £8, 1 yr. Hospital.
Kelly/Kelley Catherine/Ann 16 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Eliza Groves, Melbourne, £5, 2 yrs., apprentice.
Kelly Hannah 14/15 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Marin Healey, King St., £5, 3 yrs.
Kelly Mary 17 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mr Hynes, cabinet maker, Geelong, £14, 3 mths.
Kelly/Kemnis Maria 14 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Agnes McAdam, Collins St., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice.
Kelly Winifred 18 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Maria Smith, saddler, Melbourne, £8, 1 yr.
Kennedy Kate 14 Templemore, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Greaves, Portland, £8, 1 yr. Married 1: Wm Memmott and had at least 3 (6?) children before William's death in 1864; married 2: Robert Cripps in 1866, 6 children born in the Yan Yean by 1876. Catherine died in Melbourne Hospital 19 Oct. 1877. Brian Poulter, 12 Allenby Ave., Reservoir, 3073.
Kennedy Catherine 18 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Cath. Kennedy, Newtown, £10, 6 mths.
Kennedy/Kenally Ann 17 Nenagh,Tipperary NA RC Empl. JH Patterson,, Kilmore, £12, 6 mths. Married Richard Champion, Kilmore, 1850, only one son registered, a son, born Heathcote, 1855.
Kennedy Ellen 14/16 Fermanagh John and Ann RC Hospital. Admitted to Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, 20 Jan 1853, condition, contracted limbs. Ellen died in the Asylum in 1881.
Kennedy Margaret 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Mrs Tucker, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
Kennedy Mary 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. J Divine, Latrobe St., £10, 6 mths.
Knight Jane 16 Tipperary NA CofE Empl. Mr Maloney, Bourke St., £10, 3 mths.
Lanagan Catherine 16 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Edkins, Portland, £10, 1 yr.
Larkins Honora 14 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mary Ann Johnston, Little Collins St., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice. Married John Morton, a Scot, 29 March 1852, first child born on the Ovens Diggings, 22 Jan 1853, 13 children, 6th child born Grenfell, NSW. She died in Cobar, NSW, 13 Oct. 1908. Valerie Currie, Unit 9, 42 Bonney Ave., Clayfield, 4011.
Lee Mary 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Francis Lokey, Merri Creek, £10, 1 yr. Returned to Depot.
Lockett Marianne 15 Dublin NA CofE RHMS Empl. Mary Hume(?), Lonsdale St., £5, 3 yrs., apprentice.
Long Biddy/Bessy 18 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. A Bignell, storekeeper, Melbourne, £11, 6 mths.
Lowry/Loury Ann 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. D Corcoran, Flinders St., £9, 1 yr.
Lyons Ann 15 Tipperary Michael Lyons & Margaret O'Neil. Rc Her father was a shoemaker. Empl. Margaret Sherry, Collingwood, £6, 2 yrs, apprentice. Married 1: Charles Anderson, a Londoner, in Melbourne in 1852, 6 children, lived Collingwood, was working as a laundress when she married 2: John Hutchinson from Waterford in March 1870, no issue. She died 30 Nov. 1887. Margaret Reardon, 20 Berrima Rd., Rosanna, 3084.
MacCartey/McCarthy Catherine 18 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Patrick O'Brien, labourer, Little Bourke St., £11, 6mths.
MacCartey/McCarthy Bridget 17 Mallow, Cork NA RC Bridget was hired as a parlour-maid to Edward Higgins of Merri Creek for 6 mths at the rate of £12 p.a. She married Robert Pangbourne at St Peter's C of E, Melbourne, 3 March, 1850 with Robert Pohlman's (member of Melbourne orphan Committee) permission. The couple lived behind a shop, corner of Swanston and Bourke Streets, were successful on the goldfields, built a two storey house in High St., Carlton, and speculated in land in Brunswick and Phillipstown. Bridget died 12 May 1874 leaving Robert and ten children, and is buried in the Pangbourne family grave at Melbourne General Cemetery. Ron Mullinger, 18, Lindsay St., Macleod 3085.
MacCourt/McCourt Ellen 18 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. TW Langdon, Loddon River, £10,1 yr.
MacDonald/McDonald Eliza 17 Dublin NA RC RHMS Empl. Nicholas O'Connor, Melbourne, £10, 1 yr.
MacDonald/McDonald Mary 18 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Mr McLean, grocer, Little Collins St., £10, 6 mths. Married John Candy, Melbourne, 17 Jan. 1850, at least 6 children, 4 in the Horsham area. Mary died in Hawthorn in 1907.
MacDonald/McDonald Johanna 15 Clare NA RC Empl. Peter Martin, sheet(?)maker, Collins St., £5, 3 yrs.
MacDonald/McDonald Margaret 15 Clare NA RC Empl. JW Bell, auctioneer, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths.
MacDonough/McDonough Mary 15/16 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. James Brindon, baker, Swanston St., £9, 1 yr. Married James Rogers 1 Nov. 1850 at Burnbank (now Lexton) 12 children, lived Kyneton, died 6 August 1882. Mrs Jill Miller, 238 Bambra Rd., Caulfield 3162.
MacDowal/McDowal Catherine 16 Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. John Tracey, farmer, Richmond, £9, 3 mths.
MacElroy/McElroy Ellen 14 Fermanagh Hugh and Ann CofE Empl. John Masham, Bourke St., Melbourne, £5, 3 yrs, appentice. Married Wm Surridge (an exile, born London) at the Minister's residence, Independent Congregational Church, Melbourne, 25 Nov. 1852, c. 8 children, lived Bendigo and Creswick close to her sister (below). William died 1876 and Ellen at Creswick 11 Oct. 1923. Jeannie Lister, 8 Hayes Court, Hopper's Crossing, 3029.
MacElroy/McElroy Mary A. 16 Lisnaskea, Fermanagh Hugh McElroy and Ann Clark CofE Empl. John Masham, Bourke St., £7, 1 yr. Married Wm Jordan (an exile, born Shropshire) St Peter's, Melbourne, 31 August 1852, 13 children, 8 of whom died before reaching 21 yrs of age. Wm died 1895 and Mary Ann at the age of 90, 31 August, 1923. Jeannie Lister, address above.
MacGinnes, McGuinnes Catherine 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Daniel McGuinness, Melbourne, £14, 6 mths.
MacGrath/McGrath Mary 14/16 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Daniel Curry, Melbourne, £9, 3 mths. Possibly married Timothy Ahern in 1853(?), c. 4 children, lived Melbourne.
MacGrath/Mcgrath Mary 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. John Foley, Kilmore, £13, 6 mths.
MacGrath/McGrath/McCrae Ellen 17 Limerick NA RC Empl. John Riordon. Eastern Hill, £8, 6 mths.
MacGrath/McGrath Eliza Bridget 15 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mary Ann Russell, Melbourne, £9, 3 mths.
MacGrath/Magrath Bridget 15/16 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mary Chandler, Portland, £8, 1 yr. Married Edward Phillips, number of children born in various mining districts.
MacGrath/Magrath Mary 15/14 Kilrush, Clare NA RC To Portland
MacGuire/McGuire Catherine 14 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Mr Tulloch, Portland, £8, 2 yrs.
MacGuire/Magner Mary 17 London(?) NA RC Empl. D. Cunningham, Kinlochwe, £10, 6 mths. Thanks to the research of Fiona Cole we know Mary married Richard Youngtrotter in 1856, 1 child, lived Beechworth. Richard died in 1857. Mary was later sent to gaol for larceny and vagrancy. She attempted suicide and was admitted to Beechworth Lunatic Asylum in 1873 where she was to die in 1882.
MacLoughlin/McLoughlin Mary 15 Dublin NA CofE RHMS Empl. Rev'd Mr Bean (Episcopalian), Williamstown, £8, 6 mths.
MacMahon/McMahon Bridget 15 Limerick NA RC Empl. Denis Egan, Collins St., £6, 2 yrs.
MacMahon/McMahon Bridget 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. J Wilkinson, Portland, £9, 6 mths.
MacMahon/McMahon Hannah 14/16 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. James Delaney, farmer, Dandenong, £8, 1 yr.
MacManus/McManus Harriet 17 Buttevant, Cork NA RC Empl. John Clarke, Newtown, £8, 6 mths. Married Patrick Higgins, 13 children, died Tumut, NSW, 10 Sept.1886. Mrs Mary McNeill, 17 Mary St., Essendon, 3040.
MacNamara Mary 15 Limerick NA RC Empl. Ann French, Melbourne, £6, 2 yrs.
MacNamara Catherine 15 Limerick NA RC Empl. Edward Colt, Melbourne, £6, 1 yr.
Maddigan Bridget 14 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Mrs Hayes (labourer), Little Collins St., £5, 3 yrs. Depot
Maher Margaret 17 Queen's NA RC Empl. Jane Boys, Collins St., £9, 1 yr.
Maher Catherine 18 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. R Forster, Melbourne, £14, 6 mths.
Maher Anna 14 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Cross, Russell St., £6, 2 yrs.
Mahoney/Maloney Mary 15 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Gay, Little Bourke St., £12.
Malony/Maloney Honora 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Dennis Ryan, Little Collins St., £10, 1 yr.
Mara Mary 18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mr Masters, South Yarra, £8, 6 mths.
Marks Ann 15 Cork NA CofE Empl. John McKee, Little Bourke St., £5, 3 yrs.
Mara/Mera Eliza 16 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Wm Vele(?), Geelong, £10, 1 yr.
Miniter Margaret 18 Kilrush, Clare John and Peggy Jackson RC Empl. Wiliam Doherty, ex-Williamstown, also from Kilrush, County Clare, arrived 1839 per Westminster, moved to Heidelberg 1850s, stonemason, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths. Margaret baptised as Peggy, St Senans, Kilrush, 2 July 1831. Married Simon Molony, Melbourne, 1849, had 7 children by c. 1863, was living at Woodford in the Western District around 1860, died in Richmond 19 Oct. 1909.
Miniter Bridget 18 Kilrush, Clare John and Peggy Jackson RC Empl. William Doherty, stonemason, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths. Baptised St Senans, Kilrush, 2 July 1831 (twin sister of Margaret above). Married James Rudd, Melbourne, 1 July 1850, 8 children, husband a mason and bricklayer, lived Glenorchy and Horsham. She died 31 May 1908 in Horsham.
Minohan/Monoghan Ellen 19 Limerick NA RC Empl. Dr Elwyn, Dugalloch, Goulbourn River, £16, 6 mths.
Mooney Bridget 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. M Davis, Elizabeth St., £10, 6 mths. Hospital, released to BB, returned to Depot.
Moore Margaret 16 Dublin NA CofE RHMS Empl. Francis McDonnell, Melbourne, £11, 6 mths.
Moore Margaret 15 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mrs Morton, Melbourne, £6, 1 yr.
Moran Mary 16 Rosscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs O'Hara, Merri Creek, £8, 6 mths.
Moseley Eliza 17 Limerick NA CofE Empl. George Cavanagh, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths.
Moylan/Moyle Margaret 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Elizabeth King, William St., £8, 1 yr. Married Andrew H Morris, a carpenter, Melbourne, 27 June 1854, 3 children by 1862, husband died 1863, no further record.
Mulligan Rose 15 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. TW Langdon, Loddon River, £6, 2 yrs.
Mullumphy/Mellamphy Anne/Anna 17 Castleton, Mayo NA RC Empl. FL Clay, Portland, £11, 1 yr.
Murphy Peggy 19 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Mr O'Keefe, Little Collins St., £10, 6 mths.
Murphy Ellen 18 Cork NA RC Empl. WH Tuckett, Melbourne, £14, 6 mths.
Murray Mary Ann 14 Dublin NA RC RHMS(?) NAI BG79/G/1B No 2530, 10yo, South City, orphan, old clothes, entered workhouse 10 Sept. 1844, left 10 Jan 1849. Empl. Harriet Parker, Flinders LAne, £5, 3 yrs.
Murry/Murray Jane 16/17 Dublin NA RC RHMS(?) Empl. Mrs Kelly, Russell St., £8, 6 mths.
Myers Ellen 19 Dublin NA RC Empl. Thomas King, Plenty River, £10, 1 yr.
Neigle Ellen/Ann Ellen 16 Cork NA CofE Empl. Wm Crosby, Melbourne and Portland Bay, £10, 22 mths. Married George Ind, 4 Dec. 1850, Merino Downs, c. 11 children, lived Sandhurst, Linton and selected land on Porcupine Ridge Road, near Glenlyon, The shell of their house is still standing (2000) covered with blackberries. She died at Daylesford Hospital, 9 July 1915 and is buried in the Daylesford Cemeterey. Glen Sweet, 61, Jonathon Drive, Bacchus Marsh 3340.
Nelligan Ann 18 Mallow, Cork William and Catherine Clancy RC Daughter of William, cabinet maker, and Catherine of Doneraile. Empl. Wm Crosby, Melbourne, £10, 1 yr. Married John Baker, a bricklayer, later a farmer at Mt Bolton in June 1850, 6 children. Ann died 7 March 1870, buried Waubra. Ann Dunstan, "Swandale" RMB 828, Donald 3480.
Nelligan Eliza 17 Mallow, Cork Wm and Catherine RC Sister of Ann above. Superintendent of Work in Union workhouse. Empl. James Doyle, Melbourne, £10, 3 mths. Married Joseph (Giuseppi) Midolo, born Sicily, a sailmaker, later a cab-driver and cab-proprietor, at St Francis, Melbourne, 7 Dec. 1851, c. 11 children, lived Melbourne, mostly East Collingwood and North Richmond, died 31 March 1874. Helen M Saifert, 17 Ian Grove, Burwood, 3125; Ann Dunstan (address above); Judy Jones, 59 Wales St., West Brunswick 3056.
Nicholas Ann 18 Queen's NA RC Empl. TH Power, Melbourne, £10, 6mths.
Noble Ann 17 Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. TH Power, Melbourne, £10, 1 yr.
Nolan Ann 15 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. William O'Connor, Woodstock, £12, 1 yr.
O'Brien Milly 14 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Alex Barrie, cabinet maker, Queen St., £10, 6 mths.
O'Brien Sarah 17 Limerick NA RC Empl. I Cosgrove, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths. Married Dennis Cahill, Melbourne, 15 July 1851, 12 children, husband a farmer, lived Lockwood, Sandhurst, Ararat and Bealiba, died 12 August 1898. His estate valued at £470 in 1895.
O'Brien Mary A. 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Walker, Melbourne, £8, 3 mths. Possibly married Francis Haythorne, brickmaker, born Yorkshire, 7 Nov. 1850, 11 children. Francis died 12 June 1871, Mary in 1903. Mrs J Burch, 28 Everest Dr., Cheltenahm 3192.
O'Donnel Bridget 14 Clare NA RC Empl. John Hood, chemist, Collins St., £6, 6 mths. Depot.
O'Donnel Ellen 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. Margaret Chissell, South Yarra, £8, 6 mths; engaged by Mr Kilroy, Sth Yarra, 30 Jan 1850 £12.
O'Donnel Ann 14/12 Limerick NA RC Empl. E Nancarrow, Melbourne,, £5, 3 yrs.
O'Malley Sarah 17 Limerick NA RC Empl. James Allison, Portland, £10, 1 yr. Debra Vaughan email debonairdv[at]iinet.net.au
Orpe Rebecca 18 Doray(?), Limerick NA CofE Empl. James Graham, Melbourne, £12, 6 mths.
Osborne Margaret 15/16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Jannet Thatcher, Pentridge, £8, 6 mths.
Osborne Catherine 19 Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Rycroft, Melbourne, £9, 6 mths.
Perkison Catherine 18 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Henry Daniel, Little Bourke St., £12, 6 mths. Married Joseph Nixon, Melbourne, 29 July 1850, husband a mariner, miner and saw sharpener, 10 children, lived Ballarat, died 7 August 1881.
Perkison Jane 16 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Kelleher, Elizabeth St., £6, 6 mths.
Perratt Eliza 17 Inniskerry, Tipperary NA CofE Empl. Mrs Morgan, painter, Swanston St., £7, 1 yr.
Pound Judy 18 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Portland
Powers Mary 17 Roscrea NA RC Empl. Wm Kelly, Elizabeth St., £8, 6 mths.
Quick Johanna 14 Thomston, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Wm Davis, Collingwood, £5, 2 yrs. Depot. Married John Rouse, Melbourne 18 Oct. 1853, husband a mariner, corn dealer and digger, 2 children 1 still alive by 1855. Husband died Raglan in 1857; she died 23 August 1863.
Quigley/Quigfar Mary 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Michael Mahon, Elizabeth St., £9, 1 yr.
Quin/Quinn Ellen 19 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. James Barry, Elizabeth St., £9, 1 yr.
Ratcliff Mary 16 Cork NA CofE Empl. Dr Drummond, Eastern Hill, £8, 1yr. Cancelled by order of Dr Patterson.
Reid Martha 17 Kinsale, Cork NA CofE Empl. Henry Frencham, Collingwood, £7, 6 mths.
Roach Mary 14 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. M O'Connel, Little Bourke st., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice. Married Charles Gallagher, Melbourne, 23 Dec., 1853, daughter born at Long Gully, Bendigo, 12 April 1856, no further record.
Robinson Theresa 17 Avergreen(?), Cork NA CofE Empl. Mr R Clarke, Melbourne, cancelled by order of Dr Patterson.
Roler/Rowland Mary 15 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Henry, Little Collins St., £6, 3 mths.
Russell Bridget 15 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Hospital.
Ryan Margaret 16 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. E Henty, Portland, £15, 1 yr. Married David M Murray, Muntham, c. 1852, an employee on Edward Henty's selection "Muntham's Run", husband a farm labourer and farmer, Hamilton, 12 children, 10 of whom married and had 63 children. Over the years Margaret obtained several grants of land totalling 679 acres on the banks of the Glenelg River near Telangatuk East, property she willed to her youngest son. David died in 1896, Margaret 21 March 1905. Kevin Murray, "Sunnyside", 195 Whites Rd., Mt Duneed 3216.
Ryan Mary 17 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Henry Haydon, Woodlands, £10, 1 yr.
Ryan Catherine 17 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Moses Cavanagh, Flinders Lane, £10, 1 yr.
Ryan Judy 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Byan (Ryan?), Market Square, £8, 1 yr.
Ryan Mary 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. C Robertson, Portland, £15, 3 mths.
Ryan Marianne 17 Dublin NA RC RHMS Empl. Mr McSweeney, Bourke, St., £8, 6 mths.
Ryan Bridget 17 Drum, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Thomas Hassett, Little Collins St., £9, 1 yr. Enquiry re her PROV VPRS 116 unit 1 16 Sept. 1851.
Ryan Mary 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Gone to Mr Noble (?), Port Fairy.
Ryan Mary 14 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Norman Dogerty, Richmond, £5, 3 yrs.
Ryan Ellen 17 Limerick NA RC Empl. John Quinn, Little Collins St., £12, 1 yr.
Sands Mary A. 16 Limerick NA RC Empl. John Mahan, Heidelberg, £9, 6 mths.
Sankey Ellen 18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Fanny Richmond, Three Vineyards, £11, 1 yr.
Scandlin Catherine 18 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. John Palmer, Queen St., £9, 6 mths.
Serson Thomasine 15 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Coude, South Yarra, £6, 2 yrs, apprentice.
Serson Anastasia 18 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. JW Cowell, South Yarra, £10, 6 mths.
Sexton Bridget 14 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Catherine Redmant, Lonsdale St., £5, 3 yrs, apprentice. Married Robert McFerson, Geelong, 9 Sept. 1857, husband a hotel keeper who died of 'delirium tremens' in 1859. No further information.
Shanahan Mary 16 Tipperary NA RC Portland £13, 6 mths.
Shea Margaret 14/15 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Henry Johnston, Flinders Lane, £5, 2 yrs. Depot.
Sheedy Catherine 18 Tipperary NA RC Gone to her aunt Mrs Ahern, shoemaker, Pentridge.
Sheedy Margaret 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Thomas McDermott, Little Collins St., £8, 6 mths.
Smith Mary 14 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Wm Kent, Little Bourke St., £5, apprentice.
Sparrell/Spanell Sarah 16 Barbadoes NA CofE Empl. Edward J Hogg, Mt Macedon, £10, 18mths.
Stapleton Ann 15 Cuppa(?), Tipperary NA RC Empl. John McGrath, Little Collins St., £6, 2 yrs.
Stewart Susan 15/17 Dublin NA CofE Stuart RHMS? Empl. JE Riddell, Mt Macedon, £10, 1 yr. See PROV VPRS 521 Melbourne Gaol Vol 1 1855 No 1043 and 1856 No 133.
Sullivan Mary 16 Cork NA CofE NA
Thompson Catherine 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Helen Long, Bourke St., £10, 6 mths.
Thompson Marianne 15 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mrs Reardon, Little Lonsdale St., £6, 2 yrs, apprentice.
Tierney Ann 20 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Bullen (Millen?), Merri Creek, £12, 1 yr.
Tierney/Turner Honor 18 Limerick RC NA Empl. Daniel McKenzie, Grange Farm (?), £11, 3 mths. Married Thomas Hutchinson, tailor, Melbourne, 1 July 1850, had at least 7 children, some in South Melbourne.
Troy Janet/Jane 16 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. J Eares, Portland, £10, 1 yr. Married George Smith at The Gardens, Portland, 28 June, 1852, husband a labourer, sawyer and farmer, 13 children. She died 14 Nov. 1912, 34 years a widow, buried Dartmoor.
Upton Eliza 15/16 Mallow, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Rowland, Elizabeth St., £8, 6 mths. Married Wm Hunter at 'the residence of Mr Hunter, Rose Vale, Upper Plenty, Yan Yean', 12 June 1855, 4 children, husband a frmer, Yan Yean. He drowned in Avoca Creek in 1863. She died 22 Feb 1880, buried Nagambie.
Vaughan Jane 15 Clare NA RC Empl. Roseanne Hawkins, Spring St., £6, 2 yrs, apprentice. Married John Hexton, Melbourne, 30 Dec. 1850, had at least 6 children, mostly at Ashby, Geelong. Husband died 1874.
Ward Margaret 15 Tipperary NA RC Apprenticed as dairymaid to Mary Brown of Flinders Lane at £6 p.a. for 2 yrs. Married ex-convict Wm Smedley, Mebourne 22 April 1850, 16 children, husband a sawyer, lived Kilmore. She died 17 Dec. 1917. Louris Loughland, 17 Mitchell Court, Port Macquarie 2444; Belinda Watson, PO Box 111, Leonora 6438.
Welsh Mary 16 Kilrush, Clare NA RC Empl. Mary Segho, Little Bourke St., £8, 1 yr.
Whelan Winney 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. E Munro, Portland, £18, 1 yr.
White Margaret 18 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Donald Cameron, Moonee Ponds, £10, 6 mths.
White Mary 19 Dublin NA RC RHMS? NAI BG79/G/4 No 4396 22 years Ardee St. South City entered workhouse 11 July 1848, left 10 Jan 1849. Empl. J Maitland, Portland, £10, 6 mths.
Whittaker Ann 18 Roscrea, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Biggins, Collingwood, £10, 6 mths.
Williams Ann 15 Cork NA CofE RHMS? Wilam Empl. Mr Hunt, Bourke St., £6, 2 yrs., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. Married Bernhard ER Beyer, Richmond, 4 March 1853, c. 8 children, lived Malvern, died 2 Oct 1913, buried St Kilda. Mrs Pat Crothers, 2 Walden Ave., Wheelers Hill 3150.
Williams Eliza 18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Mr Joseph Harper, Springs, £10, 1 yr.
Willoughby Ann 14 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Mrs Jannet Thompson, Brighton, £5, 2 yrs.
Wilson Ann 16 Dublin NA CofE Empl. G Mander, Portland, £14, 6 mths. Married Thomas Slattery, Portland, Sept. 1851. No further record.
Wyse Mary 18 Limerick NA RC Empl. Edwin Carroll, baker, Geelong, £11, 6 mths.

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NEW LIVERPOOL Arrived 9 August 1849 SRNSW 4/4816 Reel 2144 (with thanks to Ada Ackerley, Linda Paoloni and to Dr Pauline Rule) Surname First Name Age Native Place Parents Religion Other
Barry Ellen 21 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Employed by Michael Fitzgerald, Salt Water River, £9 p.a., 6 months.
Bergen/Burgen Bridget 17 Waterford NA RC Burgen. Apprenticed to James Merrett, Portland, £5, 12 mths.
Bingham Maria 14 Arthurstown, Louth NA RC Per Raven to Portland. Empl. W Bermingham, Portland, £8, 12 mths.
Blanchfield Ellen 18 Canon, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Patrick Bourke, Little Bourke St, £10, 6 mths. Married John Collins, lived at Beaufort during the 1860s and 70s. Ellen was the licensee of the 'Sailor's Gull Hotel', Nerring, at the time of her death, 19 May 1907.
Boyle Mary 16 Ferry, Waterford NA RC Per Raven to Portland, empl. Mr Sutherland, Portland, £8, 6 mths.
Boyle Ellen 17 Ardee, Louth NA RC Ellenor. Engaged by William Cummuford Wilsmore, South Yarra, £7, 1 yr. Married (1) John Tankard, gardener, in 1852, 7 children; married (2) Francis Peters, dealer, in 1864, 7 children, lived Kew, North Melbourne, died 16 Oct. 1900. Mrs Dot Eichler, 5 McCrae Ave., St Albans 3021.
Brennan Biddy 15 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Michael Flaher, Swanston St., £6, 1 yr, cancelled.
Brennan Judith 16 Coolbawn, Kilkenny NA Rc Empl. William Hull, Richmond, £8, 12 mths. Married Michael Scanlan, 1854, lived in the Buninyong area. Judith/Julia died 16 March 1871 and is buried in Buninyong.
Brennan Biddy 19 Waterford NA RC alias Mary Carr. Came in place of Mary Carr. Sent to Portland. Empl. Mrs Mary Dick, Mount Clay, £11, 6 mths. Married Michael Donovan, Portland, 1850, 3 children born in the Portland area by 1855. No further information.
Brien Catherine 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Wm. Shuttleworth, Richmond, £6, 1 yr.
Brien Eliza 16 Castleton, Wexford NA RC Per Raven to Portland. Empl. H Wade, Portland, £13, 1 yr.
Brien Grace 18 Gorey, Wexford NA RC Empl. Samuel Moor, Collingwood, £10, 6 mths.
Brien Mary 17 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Thomas Hill, farmer, Merrin Creeek £8 6 mths.
Burn Fanny 19 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Isabella McLean, Elizabeth St., £9 6 mths
Burns Eliza 14 Glenmore, Wexford NA RC Empl. Thomas Brannagan, Woodlands, Moonee Ponds, £5 12 mths. Received into the Depot by order of His Excellency the Governor, 1 Sept. 1851, and out of Depot on (?).
Burns Judy 17 Money, Wicklow NA RC Per Raven, Portland. Empl. J Bowerman, Belfast, £12, 12 mths.
Butler Ellen 17 Graig, Carlow Na RC Empl. John Howard, Collins Lane, locksmith, £7, 6 mths.
Butler Mary 18 Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Buys, Collingwood, £10, 6 mths.
Butler Mary Ann 18 Clonmel, Tipperary NA RC Empl. William Bunham(?) Little Collins St., £8, 6mths.
Butler Mary 14 Graig, Carlow NA RC Empl. John Howard, locksmith, Collins Lane, £5, 12mths
Cahan Judy 18 Favanny, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. William Brodie, Moonee Ponds, £10, 12 mths.
Calavan Mary 16 Gorey, Wexford NA RC Per Raven, Portland. Empl.Mr Joseph Silver, Belfast, £8, 12mths. As Mary Canavan married (1) Emmanuel Serong, March 1851, Port Fairy, 3 children born in Belfast by early 1855. Emmanuel died Warrnambool, 17 Oct. 1856. Married (2) Norman McDonald, 1861, 4 children born at Woodford by 1874. Norman died at Woodford in 1897.
Callaghan Johanna 15 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Mrs Robinson, Elizabeth St., £5, 1 yr.
Carley Mary 18 Bornachreen, Wexford NA RC Empl. Miss Campbell, Merri Creek, £12, 6 mths.
Carlyon Margaret 15 Drumondra, Meath NA RC Empl. John Brophy, Spring St., £6, 6 mths.
Carney Mary 19 Carlow NA RC Empl. B. McIvor, Bourke St., £10, 3 mths.
Carney Anne 119 Moupleston, Louth NA RC Died on board ship 16 August 1849 (after arrival).
Casey Mary 17 Ardeg, Louth NA RC Empl. J Allison, Portland. Married Donald Bain, 1852, at least 3 children born in Collingwood by 1868. No further information.
Cavanagh Mary 18 Ballmeck, Carlow NA RC Empl. Edward Byrnes Little Collins St., £9 6mths.
Cleary/Clarey Ellen 17 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Clarey Empl. G D Crouch, Portland £14 6mths. Married William Clarke, Port Fairy, 1852, 2 children born in the 1850s, one at Burrumbeet, one at Ross Creek. No further information.
Coleburne Jane 17 MickMallon, Wexford NA RC Empl. James Seives, Merri Creek, £8, 3 mths.
Coleman Mary 15 Manchester, Lancashire NA RC Empl. Mr Murphy, butcher, Survey Paddock, Bourke St., £7, 6mths.
Conlon Bridget 15 Ardee, Louth NA RC Conlan Per Raven Portland. Empl. James Leslie, Spit Farm, Belfast £8 12 mths.
Connelly Winifred 15 Mullanahone, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Patrick Kennedy, Little Collins Street, £6 6 mths. Married John Murray, Melbourne, 1852, at least 7 children born Ballarat, Sebastopol and Kilmore. Winifred died in Sebastopol in 1915.
Coogan Catherine 17 Deansforth, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Brian Gleeson, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths. Married Michael Fitzgerald, Melbourne, 12 Feb. 1850, at least 3 children by 1863.
Cooper Susan 15 Wexford NA RC Empl. George Hyde, grocer, Collingwood £6, 12 mths. Married Thomas Melbourne, 14 Sept., 1852, c. 9 children. She died 24 Jan. 1890, buried Campbells Creek.
Corbett/Conroy Ellen 18 Waterford NA RC Per Raven to Portland. Married Wm Lloyd, Violet Creek, Hamilton, 18 March 1850, 13 children, husband a labourer and farmer. Husband died 1875, his estate valued at £233. No record of her death.
Costello Catherine 16 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Samuel Wurter(?), storekeeper Melbourne £6, 6mths.
Croke Mary 16 Killanall, Tipperary NA RC Killenaule. Per Raven to Portland. Married Thomas Gardiner, Port Fairy, 4 august 1851, husband a farmer, 11 children, lived Hexham and Caramut, died 29 April 1893, buried Warrnambool; her estate valued at £235, including allotments in the township of Winslow.
Cummerford Ellen/td> 17 Onan, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Thomas Welsh, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Curran Ellen 16 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. John Andrews, farmer, Brighton, £7, 6 mths. Married John T Richardson (b. 24 Feb 1821, Brighton, England, d. 3 Nov. 1910, Casterton, Victoria, at 'Glenelg Inn', Casterton) 10 children. She died 20 April 1907, Casterton. Ellen's father, stepmother and half sister came to Australia c. 1851. Sandra White, 8 White St., Casterton, 3311.
Curry Catherine 18 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. James Aaron Clowes, Barrabool Hills, £8, 12 mths, apprentice.
Daley Mary 16 Ardee, Louth NA RC Empl. William Dunn, Mt Macedon, £8, 12 mths.
Dawson Mary 16 Monaghan NA CofE Empl. James Mundell. Spring St., £8, 6 mths.
Dea Ellen 15 Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. J. Wilkinson, Portland, £8, 6 mths.
Dempsey Margaret 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. R Urquhart, Port Fairy, £10, 12 mths. Married Thomas (Mc)Taggart, Yangery, 10 March 1850, 12 children (one of whom killed herself because she was pregnant out of wedlock) husband a labourer and carpenter, lived Keilor and Epping, died 30 Sept. 1891.
Donavan Ellen 18 Waterford NA RC Empl. William Morrisey, Little Lonsdale St., £10 6 mths.
Donnell/Donnelly Alice 17 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Donnelly. Per Raven Portland. Empl. John Couston(?) Belfast, £9, 1 yr.
Donnell(e) Catherine 16 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. John Cox, Mount Napier Station, £10, 12 mths.
Donohoe/Dunohue Mary 18 Shillelagh, Wexford NA RC Empl. Thomas Reed, Stephen St., £7, 6 mths.
Doran/Doren Margaret/Mary 15 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Oliver Johnstone, Little Lonsdale St., £6, 6 mths.
Doyle Ann 16 Gorey, Wexford NA RC Empl. Charles Nantes, Geelong,, Wm Marsh, £7, 2 yrs.
Doyle Catherine 15 New Ross, Wexford, NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. Evan Owens, Rosebrook, £12, 12 mths. Married Robert Walker, Kilmore, 9 Nov. 1850, 7 children by 1864, husband a baker and miner, lived Warrnambool, Forest Creek and Trapps Reef, Loddon. No further record.
Doyle Eliza 16 Gorey, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. Robert Smith, Belfast £10, 12 mths. Married Wm Smith (b. Pensford, England, shepherd and labourer) at RC Church, Belfast, 26 Jan 1852, 7 children born around Warrnambool. Allan McNicol, 12 Wilbur Cresent, Oakleigh 3166.
Doyle Mary 15 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. W H Walker, Ettrick, Near Portland, £9, 6 mths Married Edward Giddens, 'Wannon Inn', Portland Bay, 8 Oct 1850, 10 children, lived Yan Yean, died 6 Jan 1908; his estate valued at £90. Joy Pagon, 1585 Main Road, Research 3095.
Duggan Catherine 18 Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. A. Bourke, Limestone Ranges, £12, 1 yr.
Dunn Catherine 16 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Roycroft, Mechanics Institute, Melbourne £7, 1yr.
Dunn Jane 18 New Ross, Wexford NA RC Empl.Daniel Fox, Lonsdale st., £9 3 mths.
Dwyer Margaret 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Doolin, Collingwood, £8 6 mths. Married Nicholas John Jenkins, St Francis RC Church Melbourne, 7 Nov. 1849, witnesses John Dolan and Ann Gilliard, c. 9-10 children. Margaret died 10 July 1902, Nicholas 10 July 1903, both buried Kangaroo Flat cemetery in Bendigo. Mrs D Lewis, 6 Lloyd Court, Blackburn 3130.
Edwards Celia 16 Gorey, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. W Thompson, Belfast £6, 1 yr. Family story has it that she was employed by the Jelli family of "Tahook" near Warrnambool. She had a child, James, by Robert Jelli and later married John Baxter, a widower, in Warrnambool, 7 June 1854. James, her son, was later to marry the granddaughter of Eliza Doyle, famine orphan, above. Celia died 8 May 1898, buried Warrnambool. Anne Salamouras, 32 Sunhill Rd., Mt Waverley 3149; Allan McNicol, 12 Wilbur Cres., Oakleigh 3166.
Egan Catherine 15 Killanall, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Marin Finns, Little Bourke St., £5 10sh, 12 mths.
Egan Auty/Anny 17 Ballangarry, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Alex Balcombe, Western Port, £12 6 mths.
Fahan Elizabeth 17 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. R Donnelly, Portland, £6 12 mths. Married Joseph Boys, Portland, 1850 at least five children born in the Hamilton Camperdown areas by 1872.
Farrell Honora 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. James McNamara, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 3 mths.
Fitzgerald Honora 19 Alman(?), Waterford NA RC Empl. George Shales, Church Lane, £10, 3 mths. Married Nicholas Lockey, Melbourne 1851, died 1858.
Fitzgerald Bridget 17 Waterford NA RC Empl. Michael Fitzgibbon, Queen St., £7, 12 mths.
Fitzgerald Hannah 17 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA CofE Empl. John Hutchinson, Great Bourke St., £6, 6mths. Married Daniel Daly, at least 8 children born in Maldon, Castlemaine, Sandy Creek and Dunolly in the 1860s. Daniel died Dunolly Hospital 15 August 1868.
Flood Judith 17 Marsh all town, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. R savage, The Grange, £9, 12 mths. As Julia Flood married Henry Underwood, Portland, 1850, 2 births registered,Chepstowe and Streatham by 1861. Julia died Branxholme 1892.
Flood Mary 17 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. John Pascoe Fawkner, Moonee Ponds, £8, 12 mths. married John Walker Keegan, 21 Feb. 1852, 12 children. Mary died 30 Nov. 1907 at Newington Asylum, buried Rookwood. Their son John was a trade union organiser and Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) 1925-34. Deirdre Irwin, 2/18 Buxton St., Adamastown, 2289.
Flynn Bridget 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Bridget Maria. Empl. Henry Frawley, Great Bourke St., £8, 6 mths. Married (John) Joseph Whitford, Dec. 1851 at Alberton, husband an ex convict, labourer and policeman, c. 9 children. Bridget died in 1916 after 28 years of widowhood; buried Greenmount.
Foran Catherine 15 WaterfordTown John Foran & Mary Bergin RC Leaving for Geelong. Per Raven Portland. Empl. James Hill, Belfast, £8, 12 mths. Married (1) Robert Collins, 15 Oct. 1852, Belfast, 1 child; married (2) R P Jepson, 28 Sept. 1855 Warrnambool, c. 5 children, lived Yackandandah, Bright and Howlong. She died 22 Jan 1910 and is buried in Benalla.
Freyler/Frahar Ellen 19 Cashel, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Lewis Keys, Richmond, £8, 6mths.
Georan Biddy 18 Killarmock, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Thomas Hobbs, Salt Water Punt, £9, 1 yr.
Gilliard Ann 19 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Graham Finlayson, Little Collins St., £10, 3 mths.
Glisson/Gibson Sarah 15 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. J Punton, shopkeeper, Queen St., £8, 6 mths. Cancelled 22 Oct. and hired to Mrs Montgomery.
Goggan Mary 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Williams, Williamstown, £10, 3 mths.
Gold Amelia 19 Athlone, Waterford NA RC Empl. William Cunningham, Elizabeth St., £11, 6 mths.
Goodwin Jane 18 Ardee, Louth NA RC Empl. Michael Hahon, Swanston St., £10, 6 mths.
Gould Ellen 16 Portsmouth, Hampshire. NA RC Empl. James Mayne, Elizabeth St., £10 6 mths.
Gray Ann 18 White Mountain, Louth. NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. C H McKnight, Dunmore, Port Fairy, £10, 12 mths. Married Joseph Stancliffe, Port Fairy 1851, the birth of only 2 children registered, 1 at Port Fairy, the other at Geelong. Ann died Portarlington, 1910.
Grady Catherine 17 New Ross, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Arrived Belfast (Port Fairy) 1 Oct 1849. Empl. George Barber, solicitor, £12, 1 yr. Married Scotsman Archibald Hamilton, Belfast, 26 Nov. 1852, moved to Mt Napier cattle station in 1854 and to the township of Macarthur in 1864, 12 children. Archibald died 1884 and Catherine acquired 13 acres and 'her' house in 1885, maintaining her family as nurse and midwife. She died January 3rd 1918. A family story has it that whilst they lived on the cattle station, some Aboriginal people took one of their babies from a crib left out in the sunshine. Catherine wanted to give chase but Archibald counselled otherwise. And sure enough, the Aboriginal people returned, and put the baby back in the crib. J G Muller, 23 Loch Ave., Ballarat 3350.
Grady Mary 20 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. R. Bloomfield, The Grange, £9, 1yr.
Green Margaret 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. James Edwards, Elizabeth St., £8, 3 mths.
Griffin Mary 20 New Ross, Wexford NA RC Empl. Patrick Cavannah, Merri Creek, £10, 6 mths. Married Samuel Gardiner/Garner, a draysman, in St Francis Church 2 Nov. 1850, 8 children between 1850 and 1868. Samuel died in Melbourne Hospital of cardiac disease in 1886, Mary of chronic alcoholism in 1891. Both buried Melbourne General Cemetery. Julie Hands, 3 Justin Court, Wantira South 3152.
Griffin Biddy 15 New Ross, Wexford NA RC Empl. Dennis Tracey, cooper, Little Lonsdale St., £10, 12mths.
Haley/Halley Catherine 17/15 Ballingarry, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Edward Murphy, shoemaker, Elizabeth St., £10, 6mths.
Hanlow Sarah 19 Gorey, Wexford NA RC Empl. Joseph Burns, Melbourne, £6, 3 mths. As Sarah Hanlon married George Clarke, at least 4 children born in the Bendigo area. Sarah died 1875.
Hanniss/Haines Jane 18 Brownstown, Dublin NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. W. Robinson, Portland, £10 6 mths.
Hanratty Mary 15 Ardee, Louth NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. C. Mills, near Belfast, £10,12 mths.
Hare Sarah 16 Newry, Dubllin NA CofE Empl. Wm Snell, Elizabeth St., £8, 6 mths. Married Thomas Crush, a Millbank Exile, January 1853, 12 children, husband a sawyer, lived Collingwood, died 25 Sept. 1895.
Hayes Mary 14 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Catherine Manahan, Great Bourke St., £5, 12 mths.
Hickey/Hickery Catherine 18 Clonmell NA RC Empl. Per Raven Portland. Empl. R Urquhart, Port Fairy, £12, 6 mths. Married William Kinniburgh, Port Fairy, 1850.
Hickey Eliza 18 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Francis Hitchins, Geelong, £12, 6 mths.
Honan Ellen 17 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Thomas Lindsey, Flinders St., £7, 1 yr. May have married John Murray; daughter Ellen born to them at Mt Korong in 1868. As Ellen Murray was admitted to Maryborough Hospital in 1880, 1895 &1902; possibly died Nazareth House, Ballarat 25 Jan 1911.
Hughes Margaret 19 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Hood, druggist, Melbourne £10, 3 mths.
Hughes Mary 14 NA NA NA Per Raven Portland.
Hurlow/Hanlow Mary 15/17 Gorey Wexford NA RC Empl. Joseph Burns, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
Jackson Hannah 16 Wexford NA RC Empl. Mr Angus, Russell St., £7, 12 mths. Per Raven Portland. Married Henry Branston, Melbourne, 1852, at least 3 of their children survived childhood. Henry died Ballarat, 19 March 1863, as did Hannah, 8 June 1866.
Jones Margaret 16 Killary, Meath NA RC Empl. Mrs Cutmore, Great Bourke St., £5/10/-, 6mths.
Jones Jane 19 Killary, Meath NA RC Empl. Mrs Doyle Swanston St., See Public Records of Victoria, VPRS 521 unit 1 1856 No 149.
Kavanagh Mary 16 NA NA RC Empl. Andrew Burns, Little Collins st., £9, 6 mths.
Kearney Mary 17 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. D Fitzgerald, Belfast, £12, 6 mths.
Kegan Mary (Ann) 19 Dublin NA RC Empl. William Crooke, Bacchus Marsh, £10 6 mths.
Kelly Bridget 20 Rose Craggen, Wexford NA RC Empl. A. McKillop (with Mr Wintle), Darebin Creek, £12, 1 yr. Married Richard Carew Sulivan (formerly of Mallow, Cork) 22 May 1850 at St Patrick's Kilmore, c. 10 children, lived Melbourne and Castlemaine, died 19 May 1866 of puerperal fever. Inquest describes the difficuties she had giving birth to her last child. Joan North, 5 Bandalong Court, Bundoora 3083; Richard Sullivan.
Kelly Maria/Mary 18 Temple Shambo, Wexford NA RC Empl. George Cooper, Melbourne, £7, 6 mths.
Kelly Mary 18 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. William Allen, Warrnambool, £12, 1 yr. Married John Dykes, Port Fairy, 1849, at least 5 children born by 1864, mostly at Port Fairy.
Kennedy Ellen 16 Waterford NA RC Empl. John Ryan, Little Lonsdale St., £6, 6 mths.
Kenny Ann 19 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. William Pender, Pender's Grove, £10, 1 yr.
Kenny Ellen 16 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. John Salsberry, Francis St., £6, 12 mths.
Kenny Johanna 17 Temple Shambo, Wexford NA RC Empl. Richard Tracey, Collingwood, £8, 3 mths.
Kinsela Mary 17 Killerary Wicklow NA RC Empl. Patrick Morgan, Geelong £8, 12 mths.
Laughlin Catherine 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Thomas Graham, Latrobe St., £8, 12 mths. Married (1) James Kirby, St Francis Church, Melbourne, 26 Jan 1851, settled Talbot, husband fell off the back of a dray in 1864 leaving Catherine with 7 children; married (2) George Lawson, 6 more children, died 29 Sept. 1914, buried Talbot. Mary Smith, Margaret Vrkijan and Margaret Walshe, 19 Central ave., North Balwyn 3104.
Leary Maria/Merianne 18 Ferns, wexford NA RC To Portland. Married George Tait, Portland, 1850, 3 children by 1858. Maria died 28 August 1860 at Narrawong, buried Portland.
Looney Ellen 16 Capperquin, Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. A Donaldson, Mount Rouse, £12, 1 yr.
McCann Mary 18 Lusk, Dublin NA RC Empl. Joseph Walters, Spring st., £9, 6mths. Married Thomas Battersby, 1850, at least 6 children born in the town of Geelong. Mary died in 1860.
McCarthy Bridget 17 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. John Watson, Little Bourke St., £7, 1 yr. Married Samuel Evans, Melbourne, 1851, large family mostly born at Kilmore. Bridget died 1875.
McCarthy Mary/Margaret 17 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl.Matthew Keogh, Little Bourke St., £10, 12 mths. Apprentice to Mrs Keogh, Bourke Lane. See article "Matrimony", Argus newspaper 5 Oct. 1849.
McDermott Mary 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Edward Fannonsey(?), Melbourne £8, 12 mths.
McDermott Biddy 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Wright of Goulburn, £10, 6 mths.
McGrane/McGrath Bridget 18 Dunlee, Louth NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. D Edgar, Mullagh, Portland District, £15, 12 mths.
McGuire Isabella 18 Louth NA RC Empl. Thomas Connelly, Great Bourke St., £8, 3 mths.
Mackey Maria 17 Clogher, Wicklow NA RC Empl. Mr Sam Daniels, Bourke St., £6, 12 mths.
Mackey/McKey Catherine 14/15 Clogher, Wicklow NA Rc Empl. Mr Byrne, draper, McKillop St., £6,12 mths. Ill treated by her employer, Mr Williams, schoolmaster of Brighton, report of case, Argus 3 Nov. 1849. Reprinted T. McClaughlin, Barefoot vol 2 p 45.
McMahon Alice 16 Ardee, Louth NA Rc Empl. Thomas Phillips, Little Collins St., £7, 6 mths.
McQuillan Ann 17 Tallanstown, Louth NA RC McQuillian. Per Raven Portland. Empl. Mr McDonald, Glenallen, Glenelg, £12, 12 mths. Married Owen Egan, Melbourne, 1852, lived Bendigo, 4 children living and five dead by the time of her death 25 Feb. 1875.
Mahoney Mary 15 Dungarvan, Watefrord NA RC Empl. Matthew Tuohey, Little Lonsdale St., £6, 2 yrs. Returned 12 Oct.
Mahon/Mahony Catherine 15 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. Mr Edmonds, Belfast, £10, 12 mths. Probably married John Tate, Port Fairy, early 1850s, several children born by 1863, mostly at Port Fairy. Catherine died at Port Fairy in 1908.
Mara Nancy 17 Emhane(?), Tipperary NA RC Empl. Dennis Leary, Merri Creek, £9, 6 mths. As Anne Mara married Daniel Donovan, farmer, Melbourne, May 1852. Family had a farm at Preston. Daniel Donovan described as gentleman of South Preston in 1899 electoral roll. Daniel died 1901, Anne in 1905.
Martin Margaret 19 Waterford NA RC Empl. Henry Ludwick, Little Lonsdale St., £9, 3 mths.
Mode Mary 17 Ardee, Louth NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. E Cameron, Sutledge, £11, 6 mths.
Moore(e) Bridget 16 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Patrick Bourk, Little Bourke St., £8, 6 mths.
Moore Marion/Marianne 19 Dublin NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. Mary Anne McKand, Sinclairs Creek, Portland, £12, 6 mths.
Murphy Bridget 15 Waterford NA RC Empl. James Murrell, bricklayer, Melbourne, £5, 12 mths.
Murphy Bridget 17 Drumcondra, Meath NA RC Empl. James Cavanagh, Moonee Ponds, £8, 1 yr.
Murphy Eliza 17 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. John Hearne Webster, Green Hills, Mt Rouse, £9, 12 mths.
Murphy Margaret 18 Ross, wexford NA RC Empl. John Pascoe Fawkner, Moonee Ponds, £10, 12 mths.
Murphy Mary 19 Clonmell, Tipperary NA Rc Empl. W P Fensall, Collins St., £12, 6 mths.
Murphy Mary 16 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. T Manifold(?), Grassmere, Port Fairy, £10, 1 yr.
Murtagh Mary 17 Dublin Na RC Murtag. Empl. John Whitbourne, carpenter, Melbourne £10, 6 mths.
Niel/Neil Margaret 18 New Ross, Wexford NA RC Empl. J W Cawell, South Yarra, £12, 12 mths.
Noonan Mary 17 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. Mrs McKenzie, Smoky River, £10, 1 yr. Married Charles Cox, 1853, at either Port Fairy or Portland, family lived Port Fairy and Casterton.
Nugent Ellen 17 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. J Smith, Portland, £8, 6 mths. Married Wm King, 21 Jan 1851, Portland, 6th child born Hotspur 19 Oct 1859, at least five more by 1869. Ellen died Digby in 1920.
Oats/Oates Ann 14 Galway NA RC Empl. Mrs Allen Queen St £5 3 yrs. apprentice.
Mitchell Mary 15 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Honora Conroy, Opposite Victoria Hotel, Flinders Lane, £5, 6 mths., refused to go, cancelled; R Mansfield, Portland, £8, 6 mths. Married Jacob Clark, Portland, 1850. No further information.
O'Brien Mary 18 Carrick on Suir, Kilkenny NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. H Wade, Portland, £13, 12 mths.
Power Margaret 18 Mourcorn(?), Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Archibald Robinson, Collingwood £12, 3 mths
Power Mary 18 Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. D McRea, Glenkevits(?), Portland district, £13, 1 yr.
Power Ann/Mary 17 Wickley, Wicklow NA RC Empl. Patrick Nolan Bourke St., £9, 6 mths. (Ann) P Lynch, Arrandoniong, Portland district, £6, 12 mths.
Preston Ellen 17 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Wm Hull, Richmond, £12, 1yr.
Price Margaret 17 New Ross, Wexford NA RC Empl. Patrick(?)
Purcell Margaret 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Per Raven to Portland. Empl. J Balmain, Portland £12 6mths.
Quinn Mary 15 Gorey, Wexford NA RC Empl. Wm Carty, farmer, Kilmore, £12 6 mths. Married Richard Filer, Kilmore, 1850, several children born in the Kilmore area in the 1850s.
Quirk Ellen 18 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. William Hovell, £8, 3 mths.
Quirk Mary 16 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. John Kruse, South Yarra, £8, 3mths.
Redmond/Redman Catherine 19 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. A MacDonald, The Grange, £10, 12 mths.
Rice Ellen 18 New Ross, Wexford NA RC Empl. Andrew Byrne, Little Collins St., £9, 3 mths.
Rice Mary 20 New Ross, wexford NA RC Empl. Timothy Ahern, Lonsdale St., £9, 3 mths.
Riley/Reilley Mary 16 Nabber, Meath NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. J G Robertson, Wando, Portland district, £12, 12 mths.
Riley/Reilly Hannah 19 Dunlear, Louth NA RC Per Raven to Portland. Empl. S Minogue, Wattle Hill, Portland, £10, 6 mths.
Riley/Reilly/Murphy Mary 18 Canon, Tipperary NA RC Empl. M Neave, Gardiner's Creek, £10, 6 mths.
Riley/Reilly Catherine 17 Dublin NA RC Empl. Mr Meave, Gardiner's Creek, (farmer) £10, 6 mths.
Ryan Mary 18 Ballycanna, Wexford NA RC Empl. George Shorwin, River Plenty, £12, 12 mths.
Ryan Catherine 17 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Youill, staymaker, Little Bourke St., £8, 3 mths.
Ryan Bridget 16 Waterford NA RC Empl. James Matthews, Geelong £8, 6 mths.
Ryan Mary 18 Waterford NA RC Empl. Bridget O'Brien, Elizabeth St., £8, 6 mths.
Ryan Mary 18 Clonmell, Tipperary NA Rc Empl. Alex Balcombe, Western Park, £12, 6 mths.
Shea Honora 16 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. William Erskine, Little Collins St., £6, 6mths. Married George Walmsley, Melbourne, 18 May 1850, 13 children, husband a steeler of picks and miner, lived Melbourne, various goldfields and Yandoit, died 27 April 1910, buried Korumburra. Mrs Margot Titcher, 86 Herbert st., Dandenong 3175; P A Hilder, 801 Cosmopolitan Place, Ballarat 3350.
Shea Bridget 17/18 Collan, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. John Fitzgerald, Swanston St., £8, 6 mths. Probably Honora's sister (above). Married Thomas Brown, b. London, labourer, Melbourne, March 1850, lived Collingwood, c. 9 children, died 18 June 1874, buried Melbourne cemetery. Patricia Hilder and Margot Titcher (address above).
Shea Catherine 17 Nourcorn(?), Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Thomas Coates, storekeeper, Belfast, Port Fairy, £15, 12 mths.
Sheedy Margaret 15 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Henry H Nash, Stephen St., £8, 6 mths. Married Daniel Corbett, 23 May 1851, Melbourne, husband a farmer, 10 children, llived Kilmore. She died 12 Sept 1870, one month after the birth of her last child.
Sheedy Ellen 16 Clonmell, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Henry Townend, Collins St., £5, 12 mths. Married James Nagle, 7 June 1856, Gippsland, 2 children by 1858, husband a farmer Tarraville, no further record.
Sheehan/Shehan Margaret 18 Waterford NA RC Empl. Thomas Matthews, Geelong, £5, 12 mths.
Shurkey/Sharkey Catherine/Mary Ann 17 Dublin NA RC To Portland. Empl. M Connolly, Belfast, £10, 1 yr.
Shurkey/Sharkey Margaret 18 Bulbriggan NA RC Empl. WH Budd, Portland, M Conolly, Belfast, £10, 12mths. As Margaret Sharkey married Job Parkinson, Port Fairy, 1850, daughter born Port Fairy in 1851 and died 1855. No further information.
Slattery Margaret 18 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. A Strutt, Woodford, Port Fairy, £13, 12 mths.
Slattery Catherine 16 Carne, Kilkenny NA Rc Empl. Frederick Green, cabinet maker, 1 Little Collins St., £7, 6 mths.
Slattery Mary 18 Mullinahone, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Joseph Wicks, Little Collins St., £8, 6 mths.
Small Mary 18 NA NA NA NA
Somerville Mary Jane 17 Monaghan NA CofE Somervill. Empl. James Aaron Clowes, Barrabool Hills, £8, 1 yr, apprentice. Married John Grix, 1854, raised a family in suburban Geelong.
Spratt Mary 17 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. A W Hume, Belfast, £8, 12 mths. Married John Cain, Port Fairy, 1850, several children born Port Fairy in the 1850s. John and Mary may have separated in the early 1860s.
Sullivan Aby 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Frederick Ferdinand Kaweran, Merry Creek, £7,6 mths.
Sullivan Catherine 19 Moourcom(?), Kilkenny NA RC Empl. William Belcher, Richmond, £13, 3 mths.
Sullivan Bridget 17 Mourcom(?), Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Moses Kavanagh, Flinders Lane, £10, 6 mths.
Sullivan Mary A 15 Waterford NA RC Empl. Edward Clark, Bacchus Marsh, £5, 12 mths. Married Thomas Clements, Melbourne, 1852, at least 8 childen born in the Ballan and Dimboola districts.
Sullivan Catherine 17 Waterford NA RC Portland. Empl. G Henty, Merino Downs, £12, 12 mths. Married George Sutton, Portland, 1852, family lived in the Tallarook area. George died 20 Sept 1879. Catherine died Seymour, January 1912.
Sullivan Margaret 18 Kilrush, Wexford NA RC Empl. W H Budd, Strangeway (per Brig) Portland, £12, 6 mths.
Sweeny Alice 15 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Michael Conroy, Melbourne £5, 12 mths.
Sweeny Ann 16 Ninall, Dublin NA RC Empl. William Whelan, Little Lonsdale St., £7, 1 yr.
Thompson Eliza 15 Kilkenny NA CofE Empl. Henry Jennings, labourer, Melbourne £6, 12 mths. Married Richard Robins, Melbourne, 18 March 1850, 14 children, husband a carpenter and farmer, lived Melbourne, Cranbourne. She died 22 Jan 1921 after 38 years of widowhood. His estate valued at £930 in 1883, included 312 acres in the parish of Cranbourne, with a four roomed "wattle and daub" dwelling.
Thompson Sarah 17 Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. John Friyell(?), Belfast, £6, 12 mths. Married James Parsons, family settled in Dunolly. James died Dunolly 1886.
Thornton Mary 17 Ardee, Louth NA RC Empl. Mrs Haw, Quinn St., £6, 3 mths. Married James Crerin, Melbourne, 1850, at least two children born Melbourne in the 1850s. Mary died in 1859.
Tobin/Toben Mary 18 Waterford John Tobin & Mary McNamara RC Empl. James Boucher, farmer, Geelong, £10, 12 mths. 'Mary married Patrick Lennon, a former convict from Tasmania, 10 June 1850 in Geelong. There were eleven children born in various places - Barramunga, Fyansford, Winchelsea, Birregurra, Irrewillepe and Colac. By about 1864 they had settled in Colac. Patrick died 3 April 1902 and Mary 27 April 1905. Both died at Elliminyt and are buried in Colac'. Jennifer Crockett, 189 Oban Rd., Ringwood North, Victoria 3134. ferfinds[at]gmail.com jcrockett[at]optusnet.com.au
Tool Catherine 19 Waterford NA RC Empl. Mr Westby, Melbourne, £12, 3 mths.
Viccars Mary/Margaret 15 Waterford NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. John Moonee, Port Fairy,£9, 12 mths. Married James Parsons, family settled in Dunolly. James died Dunolly 1886.
Wallace Mary 16 Waterford NA RC Empl. William Parker, Little Bourke St., £9, 6 mths.
Walsh Ann 18 Gorey, wexford NA RC Empl. John Lewis, Moonee Ponds, £10, 6 mths.
Walsh Mary Ann 16 Mullinahone, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mrs Emily Haw, Quinn st., £6, 6 mths. Cancelled.
Walsh Margaret 14 Bullingarry, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Edward Fitzgerald, Little Bourke St., £5, 12 mths. Returned.
Watters/Walters Catherine 14 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. John McCarty, Little Bourke St., £5, 2 yrs.
Ward Mary 16 Ballyrigg, Wicklow NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. J G Robertson, Wando, Portland district, £12, 12 mths..
Watson/Watt Bridget 16 Milltown, Kilkenny Patrick Watt & Bridget Murphy RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. Henry Wade, Portland,, £8, 3 mths. Married (1) James Gibson, Portland, 10 Feb. 1851, c. 12 children, husband a carrier and farmer, lived Portand; married (2) John McPhee in 1878. She died 16 Jan 1907. First husband's wstate valued at £209 in 1873. He left a bush hut and land of "very inferior quality" and "very scrubby".
Welsh/Walsh Ann 18 Wateford NA RC Per Raven Portland.
Welsh/Walsh Catherine 18 Waterford NA RC Per Raven
Welsh Margaret 17 Waterford NA RC Empl. William Disher, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths.
Welsh/Walsh Margaret 16 Clonmell Tipperary NA RC Per Raven Portland. Empl. Mr Sutherland, Portland, £12, 6 mths.

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DIADEM arrived 10 January 1850. Arrived Depot 12 January 1850 SRNSW 4/4817 Reel 2145 (with thanks to Ada Ackerley, Linda Paoloni and to Dr Pauline Rule) Surname First Name Age Native Place Parents Religion Other
Abrahams Eliza 16 Barnscourt, Tyrone NA CofE Employed by Thomas Hayes, Little Collins St., £7 p.a., 1 year.
Acheson/Achison Mary 16 Banbridge, Down NA CofE Achison. Empl. William Morrisey, Little Lonsdale St., £7, 6 mths.
Ady Eliza 16 Drungorman, Tyrone NA CofE Empl. John Daly, farmer, Springs, £8, 6 mths. Married John West, Melbourne, 18 June 1854, 9 children, husband a labourer, miner and butcher. lived Western Victoria, died 19 April 1910, buried Stawell.
Armstrong Eliza 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (hereafter PRONI) holds a fine collection of workhouse Indoor Registers. Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Workhouse admission and discharge registers (hereafter PRONI) Enniskillen BG14/G/4 (3069) Union at large, entered 23 May 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Charles Forrest, South Yarra, £7, 6 mths.
Ball Alice 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (No. 48) (No.3708) Empl. John Brown, sailmaker, Richmond, £7, 12 mths., apprentice. Committed suicide After being made pregnant by her married master, Argus 26 April and 1 May 1850.
Ball Jane 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (no. 1458) (No. 3291) Dirty, able-bodied, entered workhouse 20 June 1848 and left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Sarah Gough, Darebin, £6, 6 mths.
Barnett Elizabeth 15 Barmbridge, Down NA CofE Banbridge. Empl. John Foley, Melbourne, £6, 2 yrs. apprentice.
Barber Lydia/Lily A 15 Antrim Town NA Presbyterian PRONI BG1/GA/1 Lily A. (no. 4844) dirty, entered workhouse 25 November 1848, left 3 October 1849. Empl. Robert Charles, Richmond, £7, 12mths. Married James R Scarlett 6 March 1853, husband a baker, carter and gardener, 11 children, died 11 August, buried Ballarat. His estate (?) valued at £71 in 1903.
Best Susan 15 Armagh NA CofE PRONI G2/G/1 (2341) (4253) Keady, thinly clothed, hungry, Crossmore, Derryhennet, thinly clothed, entered workhouse 10 Feb 1846, left 4 Oct 1849. Empl. Mr John Porter O'Brien, Melbourne, £8, 12 mths, apprentice.
Betty Margaret 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (2368) servant, Rossnagamper, entered workhouse 7 March 1848, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Mrs J T Chambers, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
Bing Jane 15 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE (see Byng below). PRONI BG14/G/4 (4612) and BG14/G/5 (527). Empl.Mr Pippett, Russell St., £7, 12 mths. apprentice. MArried John Deslandes 5 April 1852 lived Melbourne, 10 children, died 3 August 1896. Mrs Michaela Rosenberg, 15 Brand St., Stanhope, 3623; Nancy Pilat nancybyng[at] hotmail.com
Black Sarah Ann 16 Tyrone NA CofE Empl. Margaret Duffies, grocer, Bourke St., £7, 1 yr., apprentice. Married John Motherway, Melbourne, 1852, no further information.
Boyd Elizabeth 16 Londonderry, Derry NA Presbyterian Empl. James Duff, fellmonger, Bourke St., £8, 1 yr., apprentice.
Brennan Mary Ann 15 Carrickfurgus, Antrim NA CofE Brenan. Carrickfergus. Empl. George Hewer, butcher, Bourke St., £6, 18 mths., apprentice.
Brennan Ellen 15 Carrickfergus, Antrim NA CofE Brenan. Carrickfergus. Empl. Thomas Farrell, Little Bourke St., £6, 12 mths., apprentice. Ellen Stewart. Public Record Office of Victoria (hereafter PROVI) VPRS 521 Melbourne Gaol unit 1A No. 366.
Brooks Margaret 17 Armagh NA CofE Empl. William Hall, Tea Tree Creek, £9, 5 mths.
Brown Nancy 15 Bambridge, Down NA CofE Banbridge. Empl. Charles Oliver, storekeeper, Bourke St., £8, 2 yrs., appentice. Possibly daughter of George Brown and Matilda Bradley, born in Newry c 1834, married George Jarvis Harris, Collingwood, 27 August 1856, 8 children, lived around Wangaratta and Benalla. Annie died 16 Oct 1864 in Wangaratta. Mary Hanson, 146 Dales Creek Ave, Greendale 3341.
Browne Isabella 17 Londonderry, Derry NA Presbyt. PROVI VPRS 115-4 Superintendent Letters-in, 20 Feb 1850, Report on Diadem mentions her. Brown. Empl. Thomas Stevens, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths. Married (1) Samuel Birch 1 Sept 1851. Married (2) John Andrews 26 Feb 1862, lived Geelong and Ballarat. Meryl Birch, 'Toftrees', 6 Monsants lane, Maiden Gullly 3551.
Browne Anne 16 Fermanagh NA CofE Brown, Anna. (Tim(p)joo) (Tempo?). Empl. James Purvis, Chewton, £5, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. It's worth your close attention.
Bryas/Briers Anne 18 Londonderry, Derry NA CofE Briers. Bryaer. Empl. Charles Edney, Lower Plenty, £10, 6 mths. Married Charels Warren in Melbourne 23 July 1850, 8(?) children, died Heathcote 6 August 1880.
Burns Mary 18 Bambridge, Down NA Rc Byrnes. Banbridge. Empl. Andrew Linton, settler, River Ex, £10, 12 mths.
Byng Mary 16 Fermanagh George & Mary Ann Bing CofE PRONI BG 14/G/4 (4611) child of George and Mary Ann Bing, sister of Jane (see Bing above), William, George and Cathy, Enniskillen, part of a large family group, entered the workhouse 28 Nov 1848, she left 3 Oct 1849. Enniskillen. Empl. T B Foote, Table Top, £8, 10sh, 2 yrs, apprentice. Married Thomas Troubridge 29 July 1852 in Melbourne, husband a miner and bricklayer, 8 children. lived Inglewood, died 22 Sept. 1902. Mrs Michaela Rosenberg, 15 Brand St., Stanhope, 3623; Nancy Pilat, nancybyng@hotmail.com
Cahill Catherine 18 Trury, Fermanagh NA RC Truro. Went to Mr Neave, St Kilda. Her sister, Elizabeth Neave, wife of Matthew Neave, died 13 March 1850. Catherine married Matthew, Melbourne, 1851, son born 5 April 1852, no further record.
Caldwell Margaret 18 Omagh, Tyrone Samuel & Margaret CofE Empl. George Horne, solicitor, Lonsdale St., £12, 6mths. Daughter of Samuel and Margaret, married Oakley Norden, 30 Sept. 1854, St Stephens, Richmond, husband later a miner in Sandhurst, 5 children by 1869, no further record.
Cambridge Rebecca 17 Ballyrag, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/5 (841) Ballyreagh, entered workhouse 9 April 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Mr George Moulds, baker, Collingwood, £8, 6 mths. Married Samuel J Harvey, 11 Oct 1854, 11 children, husband a gold digger, labourer and woodman, lived Morang, died 25 June 1905, buried Yan Yean. She left 10 acres of land and cottage in the township of Separation, valued £100, and 5 cows and furniture worth £40.
Campbell Eliza 18 Armagh NA Presbyt. PRONI BG 2/G/3 (529) (1775) Markethill, thinly clothed, entered workhouse 30 January 1849, left 4 Oct 1849. Empl. William Weldon, carpenter, Queen St., £6, 3 mths.
Carr/Kerr Anne 18 Turtuakelly, Derry NA CofE Kerr, Ann. Turtnakelly. Empl. Mrs Agnew, Geelong, £8, 12 mths.
Christie Eliza 16 Killin, Armagh NA Presbyt. PRONI BG2/G/2 (2141) 14 yr old, Presbyt. Ballyards, 7 Towns, entered workhouse 9 Oct 1847, left 1 Nov. 1847. BG2/G/3 (1517) 16 yr old thinly clothed, Charlemont, Killalyn, entered 9 June 1849, left 4 Oct. 1849. Empl. Thomas Scales, Melbourne, £6, 1 yr. apprentice. The following information was sent from Eliza's descendant, Di Samter, 'During Eliza Christy’s journey on board the Diadem she met her husband to be, John (Frazer) Jones, along with his first wife Esther who was pregnant and their toddler son. Eliza cared for Esther in childbirth on board, but sadly Esther died. John Jones married Eliza Christy on 1.4.1852 in Kilmore and they set up home in Victoria and had 11 children – perhaps 12 children. Around 1883 most of the Jones family migrated to NSW to areas such Cobar and Broken Hill. Eliza died in Broken Hill in 1895 and is buried in Broken Hill Cemetery. Her death certificate states her father was Robert Christy, a Farmer, and her mother Eliza.' treesds555-elizachristy[at]yahoo.co.uk
Cochrane Mary Anne 15 Milloslone, Down NA Presbyt. Mulloslone. Empl. Henry Clinton, Richmond, £6, 2 yrs. apprentice.
Conaly/Kirdy etc. Margaret 15 Larne, Antrim James Kirdy CofE Couldy, Keardy, Conidy, Kinidy, Kirdy. Empl. Thomas H Pike, Upper Werriby, £7, 1 yr. apprentice. Father, James Kirdy. She was born 1833, married William Thomas Osmond, 17 sept. 1851, St James Church, Melbourne, 12 children, died 24 Oct 1911 at Beechworth Benevolent Asylum. Helen Milton, 2 Prunis Crt., Wodonga 3690 email erin02[at]primus.com.au
Conroy Mary 16 New York, USA NA Rc Empl. H Howard Nash, Stephen St., £6, 6 mths. Married (1) William Ryan, 8 children. Married (2) Joseph Butcherini, 3 children, lived Wangaratta and Chiltern, died c. 1892(?)
Cosgrove Mary Anne 20 Armagh NA Rc PRONI BG2/G/3 (357) thinly clothed and dirty, English Street, entered workhouse 5 Sept. 1848, left 4 Oct 1849. Empl. John Hatty, Moonee Ponds, £8, 6 mths.
Cowan/Cowen Anne 17 Banbridge, Down NA Rc Cowen. Ann. Empl. Francis B Jones, cooper, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths. Married William Connolly 1852, 6 children at least by 1868 in Bendigo.
Cowley Margaret 16 Duffley, Tyrone NA Presbyt. Empl. Robert Auld, Bourke St., Melbourne, £6, 12mths. apprentice.
Cramston Catherine 15 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG 14/G/4 (989) Cranston, Laragh, Rossawilla, entered workhouse 4 June 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Cramstone, Crampston. Empl. Misses Kavanagh, Flinders Lane, £6, 18 mths. apprentice. Married Henry Firth Smith, Melbourne, 17 March 1852, husband later a miner in Ballarat, 8 children by 1868, no further record.
Crane Mary 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG/14/G/4 (71) 13 year old, orphan, entered 4 July 1847, left workhouse 2 Oct 1849. Empl. William Armstrong, Melbourne, £6, 12 mths. apprentice.
Crighton/Creighton Margaret 16 Turtuakelly, Derry NA Presbyt. Cregan, Creighton. Turtnakelly. Empl. Mrs Cantlin, Williamstown, £8,6 mths.
Cunningham Jane 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (156) 20 yr old. Enniskillen Mulhylogane(?), entered workhouse 4 July 1847 left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Henry Ginn Esq, Colonial Architect, Richmond, £13, 3 mths.
Danaghe/Donaghue/Donaghy Mary 15 Derry NA RC Donaghue. Donaghy. Empl. James Allen, Dry Creek, £7, 12 mths., apprentice.
Darsey/Dawson Catherine 18 Larne, Antrim NA CofE PRONI BG 17/G/1 (3590) (4067) Ballynure, Templecarron, good health, dirty, starving, entered workhouse 14 June 1849, out 4 Oct 1849. Darcy. Empl. Kath Lyons, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths. Married Andrew Strahan in 1855. Andrew convicted of embezzlement in 1857 and uttering a forged cheque in 1861. Three sons born by 1866. Catherine possibly died in 1880.
Dempsey Anne 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Margaret CofE PRONI BG 14/G/5 (727) Demcy. Able-bodied, Union at large, with mother Margaret from King's County, entered workhouse 20 March 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Demsey, Ann. Empl. James Andrews, farmer, Brighton, £7, 6 mths. Married Eugene Abel at St Andrews, Brighton, in 1852. Several children born in the Dandenong area by 1871.
Develin Margaret 17 Glenoch, Tyrone NA RC Empl. Mrs Duffey, Bourke St., £9, 6 mths.
Dogherty Maria 16 Tandaragee, Down NA RC CofE Empl. William Ewing, Melbourne, £6, 12mths. apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Dolan Jane 18 Killina, Cavan NA RC Empl. Mr Palmer, Swanston St., £10, 6 mths.
Dolan/Doolan Mary 16 Killina, Cavan NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 (2160) 17 yrs old, orphan, Killinagh Subaveeny(?) entered workhouse 16 Feb 1848, left 3 Oct 1849. Doolan. Cavan. Portland. Left the Depot..tt..without the usual hiring, where gone?...to the bush with one of her shipmates.
Dolan Alice 16 Killina, Cavan NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 (2159) 15 yrs old orphan, entered workhouse 16 Feb 1848, left 3 Oct 1849. Doolan Allister (Alice). Cavan. Empl. Thomas Simnah, Little Bourke St., £8, 6 mths./td>
Doran Sarah 15 Whitehouse, Antrim NA CofE Empl. John Hood Collins St., £7, 12 mths. apprentice.
Elliott Jane 16 Temple, Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Charles Marshall, Little Bourke St., £10, 6 mths.
Ellis Eliza Jane 16 Londonderry, Derry NA CofE Empl. Geore Allen, Little Collins St., £7, 12 mths. Apprentice.
Ewing Eliza 15 Lesmacanel, Derry NA CofE Empl. James Forrest, Merri Creek, £8, 2 yrs., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Ferguson Mary 17 Fermanagh NA CofE Town of Fermanagh. Empl. Augustus Farley, Collingwood, £8, 6 mths.
Fitzsimmons Helen 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Grace (father dead) CofE PRONI BG 14/G/5 (254) entered workhouse with sister below 26 Jan 1849, left 2 Oct 1849. Empl. Edwin Leadbeatter, Collingwood, £10, 6mths.
Fitzsimmons Mary 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Grace (father dead) CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (462) (255) Carne, Blacknett, entered workhouse with mother, Grace, widow, brother Robert and sisters Ellen and Roseanne, able bodied, entered 28 Jan 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. James Robe, Collins St., £7, 12 mths., apprentice.
Foreman Catherine 17 Omagh, Tyrone NA RC Farman. Forman. Empl. John MacDonald (grocer), Little Bourke St., £8, 6 mths.
Gage Margaret 16 Coleraine, Derry NA Presbyt. Empl. Mr Mahoney, Deep Creek, Mains Bridge, £6, 12 mths. apprentice. Married (1) John Harris, 1852, some children born in Avoca. Married (2) Frederick Taylor, 1866, several more children born in Avoca. Still alive in 1906.
Gallagher Elizabeth 18 Orkney Isles/Isle of Bute NA RC Isle of Bute. Empl. Mr John King, Brighton, £8. Married John Fullerton, widower, 22 Jan 1851. Witness was Mary Ann Arbuckle (now Mrs James Carter) per Derwent. Children born in Moonee Ponds/Brunswick area early 1850s, no further information.
Geatins/Geatens Isabella 15 Milecras, Tyrone NA RC Geatens. Six Mile Cross. Empl. William Thompson, Flinders St., £7, 1 yr. Married James Wilson, Melbourne, 1852, birth of daughter Catherine registered Bungaree in 1872.
Gibbons Mary Anne 17 Londonderry, Derry NA RC Empl. Alexander Robbie, Darebin Creek, £10, 6 mths. Married John Dorward a miller/tailor 23 May 1856 at Emerald Hill, no children, died 3 August 1880, buried Dunolly.
Givins Jane 16 Omagh, Tyrone NA RC Givin. Devins (Ginn) Armagh. Empl. Terence O'Hern, Merri Creek, £8, 3 mths.
Gordon Susan 16 Armagh Margaret CofE Tyrone. PRONI BG2/G/1 (2462) from Parish Armaghbreague, Corkley townland, first admitted to workhouse 20 March to 16 Oct 1844 aged 12 yrs, with mother Margaret Mallon (57), sisters Martha (10) and Matilda (7) and brother John (14) in a starving condition. Thereafter admitted many times, thinly clothed and destitute but clean, until last admission from 1 May to 4 October 1849. Empl. Charles Savage, Stockton, £9, 6 mths. Married John Headley, Melbourne, 16 December 1850 with consent of her legal guardian W Lonsdale (see Barefoot vol 2 , page 26 for names of Melbourne Orphan committee), 11 children, lived Bulla and Sunbury area until c. 1863. By 1864 had settled in Tinamba, Gippsland where she died 25 sept. 1888, buried Maffra. Kay Robinson, GPO Box 2354 Sydney, NSW 1043. Mrs Frances Papp, 217 Rossmoyne St., Thornbury 3071.
Gowdy Maria 15 Armagh Town Sarah CofE PRONI BG2/G/1 (7032) BG2/G/2 (239) (1383) Tynan Killyleagh, Union at large, deserted, thinly clothed. Her mother Sarah 36 yo widow died in the workhouse 7 May 1847; younger sister Anne and older brother Thomas also in workhouse. Empl. Henry Taylor, King St., £6, 1 yr. apprentice. Married John Hawksworth in 1854, 8 registered children, lived Timor area, died Maryborough Hospital 3 Oct. 1877.
Gradon/Grady/Graydon Anne 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Mary & James (father dead) CofE PRONI BG 14/G/5 (2155) Florence Court, Curraghglass, father James died in workhouse 2 May 1848, mother Mary and two brothers, James and Alexander, also in workhouse. Grady. Graydon. Empl. George Carnaby, Swanston St., £8, 3 mths. Married John Barker, farmer, 6 August 1852, lived Melbourne, 6 children, died 20 dec. 1869, four years after her husband.
Graham Mary Jane 15 Armagh NA CofE PRONI BG 2/G/3 (2573) Union at large, orphan, tolerably well clothed and clean, entered workhouse 6 May 1849 left 4 Oct 1849. Town of Armagh. Empl. Mr Sweetman, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Graham Mary 15 Cromlin, Antrim NA RC PRONI BG 1/GA/2 (506) dirty, illegitimate, entered workhouse 1 Sept 1849, Register damaged. Empl. Patrick Fitzgerald, Little Malop St., Geelong, £6, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. Married Edward Barrass, Melbourne, 1852, 5 children by 1861. Mary died 1862.
Gray Jane 17 Lisnataylor, Antrim NA Presbyt. Empl. James Waters, farmer, Moonee Ponds, £8, 6 mths.
Gwyn Jane 16 Omagh, Tyrone NA Presbyt. Gwynn. McQuinn. Empl. Henry Matson, settler, River — £8 1 yr., apprentice.
Hagan Jane 20 Armagh NA RC Cagan. Empl. Mr Fleming, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths. Married John Chatwin, 21 Oct 1850, Melbourne, daughter born 1853, no further information.
Hall Rebecca 16 Coleraine, Derry NA CofE Hale. Portland. Empl. John McKenzie, Portland, £8, 12 mths.,
Halladay Catherine 16 Tyrone NA CofE Halliday. Empl. Colin C Clarke, Melbourne, £7, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Halliday Sarah 15 Antrim Town NA Presbyt. PRONI BG1/GA/1 (4734) Ballyclare, servant, dirty, entered workhuse 12 Oct 1849, Sarah, widow, (mother?) left 31 July 1849. Empl. Jonathon Bodie, Darebin Creek, £5, 6 mths.
Halliday Nancy 19 Ballyclenan, Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG1/GA/1 (1245) Ballyclare, servant, dirty, entered 1 October 1846, left 3 Oct 1849; Sarah, widow, (mother?) 33 yrs, left 15 March 1848. Ballylan. Empl. Jonathon Bodie, Darebin Creek, £10, 6 mths.
Hardy Mary Anne 16 Ballymoney, Antrim Mary Presbyt. PRONI BG5/G/1 (622 et seq.) (851 et seq.) (931 et seq.) (4223 et seq.) family group, mother and children, mother Mary unable to support family, Mary Anne and her two younger brothers, John and William, mendicant, last entry 13 sept. 1848 exit 4 Oct 1849. Empl. Thomas Connelly, Little Bourke St., £8, 6 mths.
Harrison Maria 15 Armagh NA CofE Town of Armagh. Empl. John Leary, Little Brighton, cancelled by Dr Patterson and readmitted to Depot. Married Henry Barker, a labourer, 26 April 1852, lived Williamstown, 7 children by 1870, no record of death.
Harton Jane 15 Ballymoney, Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG5/G/1 (1127) Benvardin (?), orphan, clean, entered workhouse 23 Oct 1846, left 4 Oct 1849. Horton. Empl. Willian Hassey, South Yarra, £7, 6 mths.
Hetherington Isabella 17 Little Brun, Fermanagh NA CofE Little Breen (?) Empl. Mrs Roycroft, Moonee Ponds, £9, 1 yr.
Higginson Eliza 16 Antrim Town NA CofE PRONI BG1/GA/2 (366) Union at large, dirty, entered workhouse 24 May 1848 left 3 Oct 1849. Haggerston. Empl. Thomas Austin, St Kilda, £8, 1 yr., apprentice.
Hill Sarah 15 Antrim Town NA Presbyt. PRONI BG1/GA/1 (1931) Shilvoden, dirty, orphan, entered workhouse 11 Feb 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Hile. Empl. William Willoby, Long Waren, Western Port, £7, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Hillard Jane 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Richard & Margaret CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (986) Mallaghmean, Ballyreagh, daughter of Margaret and Richard (202), older sister of Margaret Ann, deserted, entered workhouse 18 Jan 1848, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. George Hirston(?), Russell St., £8, 12 mths.
Hoines/Hains Biddy 19 Klunish, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (2263) 18yr old, Laragh, entered workhouse 7 August 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Hains. Hines. Empl. McClean(?), Richmond, £10, 6 mths.
Hughes Catherine 20 Callon, Armagh NA RC PRONI BG2/G/3 (641) 24 yr old, Caledon town, comfortable, clothed, entered workhouse 24 Oct 1848 left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Mrs Devine, Melbourne, £9, 6 mths.
Hughes Margaret 15 Armagh NA RC Town of Armagh. Empl. Andrew Hickey, Waurn Ponds, Geelong, £6, 12 mths. apprentice.
Hume Eliza 19 Cragmore, Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG1/GA/1 (3408) Randalstown, dirty, entered workhouse 3 Oct 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. John Tickell, Spring St., £8, 6 mths.
Hunt Margaret 17 Limavadey, Derry NA CofE N T Limarody, Londonderry. Empl. J O' Brien, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Hunter Eliza 16 Ballymoney, Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG5/G/1 (1041) 12 yr old, stout, dirty. Seacon, entered workhouse 26 Oct 1846 left 4 Oct 1849. Empl. Oliver Parnham, Melbourne, £6, 6 mths.
Hunter Jane 17 Ballymoney, Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG5/G/1 (2994) 16 yr old, stout, clean, Seacon, entered workhouse 4 Oct 1847 left 4 Oct 1849. Empl. Mrs Greening, Little Bourke St., £8,6 mths.
Jamison Mary 15 Londonderry, Derry NA Presbyt. Assaulted by her master Daniel McGlinn,tanner of Flinders Lane, Melbourne Morning Herald, and Argus 14 Feb 1850. Returned. Jamieson. Portland. 28 August left for Portland without sanction as apprentice. Married James Wilson, Portland 1851 at least 8 children born mainly in the Hamilton area before her death in 1863.
Jeffreys Mary Jane 18 Antrim Town NA RC PRONI BG1/GA/2 (137) Union at large, dirty, entered workhouse 22 Feb 1849, left Oct. 1849. Empl. Mary Fitzgerald, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Johnston Mary 16 Kofgroo(?) Derry NA Presbyt. Rossgear. Empl. Mrs Johnston, Geelong, £8, 12 mths., apprentice.
Johnston Catherine 16 Cooke Town, Derry NA RC Cookstown, Tyrone(?) Empl. Patrick Ryan, Melbourne, £6, 1 yr., apprentice.
Kean Mary 18 Tyrone NA RC Empl. Martin Sheady, water carrier, Litle Bourke St., £6, 6 mths.
Kean Catherine 17 Crosly, Tyrone NA; RC Crosby. Empl. Henry Townsend, labourer, Little Bourke St., £8, 6 mths.
Kearney Eliza 15 Bambridge, Down NA RC Empl. William O'Leary, King St., Melbourne, £6, 12 mths., apprentice.
Kelly Arabella 17 Antrim Town Nancy CofE PRONI BG1/GA/1 (3316) Crumlin, bastard, dirty, entered workhouse 16 Sept. 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Her mother Nancy 50 yr old single servant leaves workhouse 1 August 1849. McDonnell. Kelly her father's name. Empl. Rebecca Smith, Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths.
Kelly Anne 16 Armagh NA CofE PRONI BG2/G/1 (10) 7 yrs in workhouse, deserted by father, healthy, entered workhouse 4 June 1842 left 4 Oct 1849, younger brother James died 15 Oct 1847. McDonald her mother's name. Town of Armagh. Empl. John Brougham, Edwards River, £10, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. Married Thomas Smith, labourer, from County Down, Port Fairy, June 1852, 3 children born Port Fairy area early 1850s, no further information.
Kelly Mary Jane 16 Armagh NA CofE Town of Armagh. Empl. Margaret Doyle, Newtown, £5, 1 yr., apprentice.
Kelly Susan 15 Bambridge, Down William & Mary Downes RC Empl. Charles Baker, Bourke St., £6, 1 yr., apprentice. Parents William Kelly and Mary Downes. Married Lionel Cutts, had issue of 11 children. Susan died 1907 buried Helensborough, NSW. Marlene Tyrell, 17 Molleton St., Blackburn 3130.
Kerr Eliza 16 Limavady, Derry NA CofE N T Limarody. Empl. Thomas Morrow, Queen St., £8, 6mths.
Liddey Jane 16 Leitrim NA CofE Empl. William Brickwood, Brighton, £7, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. Married Charles Frederick stander/Stender, 3 Feb 1852, husband a carrieer, miner, publican and gentleman, 9 children most of whom did not survive to adulthood. She died 28 Feb 1881 3 mths after her husband. Husband's estate valued at £1759. Owned the 'Golden Age Hotel' in Knockwood. The inheritance was swallowed up in the maintenance and medical care of the children!
Little Anne 18 Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/5 (2215) 16 yr old, Union at large, entered workhouse 31 July 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. John Sullivan, Richmond, £10, 9 mths.
Little Jane 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Mary RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (3000) 13 yr old, Union at large, entered workhouse with mother Mary 54 yr old widow and William 14 yr old on 16 May 1848. She left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Richard Tracey, Port Office, £6, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Love Margaret 16 Churchill, Fermanagh Mary RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (325 1) Union at large, sister of Sarah (see below) and Thomas, daughter of Mary who was disabled from dropsy. Empl. John Buckland, Geelong, £8, 12 mths., apprentice. Married William Hargrave in Geelong 1 July 1857, husband a blacksmith and miner, 12 children, lived Geelong, Ballarat. Admitted Maryborough Hospital 27 Feb 1877, died 30 April 1877.
Love Sarah 15 Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (2238) servant out of place, Union at large (see above) brother Thomas entered workhouse 3 August 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. John O'Loughlin, Point Henry, £7, 1 yr., apprentice. Married James Barry, Geelong, 2 June 1851.
McAlhoney Mary 15 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. John Purdy, Moonee Ponds, £7, 1 yr., apprentice. Tikibeau informs us that she married 'Richard Wrench in 1852 then went off with James Kennedy, no marriage found, 7 children born in Victoria and NSW. She then married John McLeish in 1881 at Orange NSW. Mary died 1900 in Narromine NSW.' tikibeau[at]yahoo.com
McAlister Agnes 18 Antrim NA RC McAllister. Town of Antrim. Empl. Henry Crossen, Bourke St., £9, 6 mths.
McArdell Catherine 18 Farnley, Armagh NA RC PRONI BG2/G/2 (2642) A Catherine McArdell 21 yr old servant Union at large entered workhouse 19 July 1847, left 27 August 1847, entered again 11 Nov '47 and left again 24 Dec 1847. Empl. Ed Shortate, grocer, Richmond, £6, 12 mths.
McArthur Nancy 17 Lorne, Antrim NA Presbyt. Larne. Empl. William Benjamin Smith, Great Bourke St., £8, 6 mths.
McCabe Jane 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. James Purvis, Chewton, £10, 6 mths.
McCann Mary Anne 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 18 yr old, Union at large, town, lived with her aunt the past eight months, entered workhouse 7 August 1848, out 3 Oct 1849. She was one of five sisters who came to Australia. Empl. Patrick Murphy, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths. Married Patrick McLoughlin 4 Sept 1851 a gold miner of Kangaroo Gully, Bendigo, 9 children, died of pneumonia and exhaustion 1 March 1887. Douglas Stewart, 25 Eyre St., Mount Gravatt 4122.
McCann Mary Jane 17 Limavady, Derry NA CofE Ann Jane. Limerady. Empl. William Hinds, Queen St., £8, 6 mths.
McCann Sarah 16 Armagh NA RC PRONI BG2/G/3 (2083) Irish Street thinly clothed, entered workhouse 6 March 1849, out 4 Oct 1849. Empl. Ephraim Howe, Heidelberg, £8, 12 mths., apprentice. Married William Ford, Melbourne, 6 Nov. 1855, 2 children at least by 1860. Sarah died in 1861.
McCann Catherine 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (1803) Ballyreagh, deserted, entered workhouse 12 June 1849, out 3 Oct 1849. She was in the workhouse with Sisters Susan 13 yrs., Margaret 10, Hanah,8 and Ellen 6. Empl. Michael Cochran, 5 Elizabeth St., £5, 1 yr, apprentice. Sister of Mary Ann above. Her other sister Susan came to Australia by the Ocean Monarch in 1855. Catherine married Thomas Kelly, 1854, at least 7 children in the Maryborough and Majorca area. Mary KIng, 43 North St., Hadfield 3046.
McCarter Eliza 16 Limavady, Derry NA Presbyt. McArthur. N T Limarady. Empl. William Arthur, milkman, £9, 6 mths.
McConway Isabella 16 Drumraw, Tyrone NA RC McConnony. Drumrain. Empl. W Spence, schoolmaster, La Trobe St., Melbourne, £10, 1 yr., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
McDermott Anne 17 Coleraine, Derry NA Presbyt. Empl. George Mars...(?), Great Bourke St., £6, 6 mths.
McDouall Anne 15 Armagh NA CofE Empl. Malcolm McLean, Darebin Creek, £6, 12 mths., apprentice./td>
McElhill Jane 15 Omagh, Tyrone NA RC Empl. Patrick O'Brien, Salt Water River, £6, 2 yrs., apprentice
McFarlane Elizabeth 18 Armagh NA RC McFarland. McFarrell. Empl. Elizabeth Scott, Melbourne, £7, 6 mths.
McGawlich Catherine 16 Omagh, Tyrone NA RC McGaulich. Empl. Charles Manton, Lonsdale St., £8, 12 mths. apprentice.
McGee Jane 18 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. E McKenna, Russell St., £10, 3 mths.
McGill Mary 18 Derry NA RC Empl. Mrs Rose, Bourke St., cancelled.
McGrath Mary Jane 15 Bambridge, Down NA CofE Empl. John O'Sullivan, brickmaker, Richmond, £6, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
McGuinness/Maginnis Jane 18 Edindras (?), Armagh Bernard and Eliza (?) CofE PRONI BG2/G/2 (4340) A 16 yr old Jane Maginnis daughter of Eliza and husband Bernard (in America), CofE from Glenaul entered workhouse with brother William, 11yrs. She leaves 4 Oct 1849. Empl. Mr Leath, Melbourne, £9, 3 mths.
McGuire Jane 20 Armagh Town NA RC PRONI BG2/G/2 (4250) A 19 yr old Jane Maguire, RC, thinly clothed Armagh Lower English St., entered workhouse 18 April 1848, left 10 Nov 1848. Empl. J Patterson Esq., Melbourne, £10, 3 mths. See Public Record Office of Victoria (hereafter PROV) VPRS 521 Melbourne Gaol Unit 1 A No. 207.
Maguire Sarah 19 Armagh NA RC PRONI BG 2/G/2 (4174) A 17 yr old Sarah Maguire thinly clothed RC Armagh English St., entered workhouse 11 April 1848, left 28 April 1848. BG2/G/3 (198) 18 yr old Sarah Maguire Banbrook(?) entered 1 August 1848, discharged 10 Nov 1848. Town of Armagh. Empl. Denis Thomson, Melbourne, £9.
Maguire Margaret 15 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Bernard McKeiver, Melbourne, £9, 6 mths.
McKeevar Isabella 19 Armagh NA CofE PRONI BG2/G/3 (410?) thinly clothed and drawn in a cart, entered workhouse 19 Sept 1848 and left 4 Oct 1849. McEwer. Issabella. Empl. Denis Edward, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths. Married Philip Davies, Melbourne, 1850, 2 children born in the Bacchus Marsh area by 1858.
McKenna/McCanna Sarah 19 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG/G/5 McCanna (1347) 20 yr old labourer entered 8 May 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. K F Clarke, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
McKenna Anne 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. P Watson storekeeper off Bourke St., £7, 1 yr., apprentice.
McKinlay Anne 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Mrs Wilson, Geelong, £7, 6 mths.
McKown/McEwan Jane 18/16 Omagh, Tyrone NA CofE Empl. John York, Spring St., £8, 3 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
McLoughlin Margaret 17 Kinnaly, Fermanagh NA RC McLaughlin. Manus. Kinaly. Empl. Mrs Woods, Russell St., £7, 6 mths.
McLoughlin Jane 18 Ballymooney, Antrim NA Presbyt. McLaughlin. Empl. The Reverend Forbes, Melbourne, £7, 6 mths.
McLoughlin Elizabeth 17 Tyrone NA RC McLaughlin. Empl. Mrs Pender, Melbourne, £8, 1 yr.
McLoughlin Nancy 16 Londonderry, Derry NA RC McLaughlin. Empl. Joseph Bloxham (?), Heidelberg, £9, 6 mths.
McLay Margaret 15 Drummaroch, Down NA RC Empl. John McCarthy, Kilmore, £6, 2 yrs., apprentice. Married James Pringle Kilmore 1853. Margaret died 1860.
McLean Margaret 18 Ballymore, Antrim NA CofE PRONI BG17/G/1 (3335) 17 yr old servant Presbyterian good health Ballynure, entered workhouse Oct 1848 left 4 Oct 1849. McClean. Ballymure. Empl. William Hall, carpenter, Williamstown, £8, 3 mths.
McLough Janet 16 Ballymoney, Antrim NA RC Maloch. Empl. Mrs Taylor, Williamstown, £7, 12 mths., apprentice.
McLure Mary Anne 16 Guilford, Down NA CofE Empl. Joseph Boucher, milliner, Bourke St., £7, 1 yr., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
McMaster Mary Anne 14 Kitchell, Armagh Joseph CofE 16 Rich Hill. Born Belfast, daughter of Joseph McMaster (b. Scotland). Empl. Mrs Mary Sweetman, Melbourne, £6, 2 yrs., apprentice. In March 1850 Reverend Edward Sweetman and his wife went to Tasmania and took Mary with them. Mary married John Reeves in Launceston in July 1853, c. 11 children, lived Devonport and later farmed at Barrington. One of their sons, Thomas, was Champion Axeman of the colonies in the 1890s. Mary died a widow at Deep Creek, Wynard, Tasmania on 28 Dec. 1914. Her obituary is in The North West Post (Devonport), 5 Jan 1915. Dr Gael Phillips, PO Box 124, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston 4029. I
McMullane Sarah 16 Derry NA RC McMullen. Sarah Jane (Susan). Empl. James Cadmore, Melbourne £7, 12 mths., apprentice.
McNally Margaret 15 Tyrone NA RC Crosk. Tyrone. Empl. Daniel Kennedy, Bourke st., £9, 2 yrs., apprentice.
McNeagh Anne 17 Omagh, Tyrone NA RC McMahon. 16. Empl. J Harrison, Braybrook, £7, 6 mths.
McQuid Biddy 16 Tyrone NA RC Empl. John English, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
McSally/McSorley Mary Anne 16 Armagh NA RC McSorley. Empl. Thomas Beaunt, Russell St., Melbourne, £7, 13 mths.
McSawley/McSorley Mary 15 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC McSorley. Empl. David O'Leary, La Trobe St., £7, 1 yr., apprentice.
McSorley Catherine 17 Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (1739) 18 yr old Enniskillen Town entered workhouse 23 November 1847, out 30 March 1848; BG14/G/5 (2221) 17 yr old Ballycassidy, entered workhouse 31 July 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Trorey, Fermanagh. Empl. Thomas Maunt, Russell St., £7, 3 mths. Married Henry William Field, Melbourne, 1851, 2 children by 1855, no further information.
McVay Biddy 16 Armagh NA RC McFay. Empl. Mr William Crebin, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Marshall Elizabeth 16 Cook's Town, Antrim NA CofE Empl. Benjamin Rickards, schoolmaster, £8, 3 mths., ret. 2 April.
Marshall Margaret 14 Cook's Town, Antrim NA CofE Empl. James Wilkinson, Little Flinders St., £5, 2 yrs., apprentice.
Marshall Eliza 17 Tyrone NA Presbyt. CofE. Empl. James Roberts, Williamstown, £10, 6 mths.
Martin Anne 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Andrew Ryan, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths. 19 Jan.; received from hospital 24 March; 12 May gone to Mr Power, Melbourne.
Maynes Margaret 18 Omagh, Tyrone NA RC Empl. John Carey, Killschue, £9, 12 mths.
Miller Elizabeth 15 Ardmore, Derry NA RC Empl. Mrs Austen, Melbourne, £5, 1 yr., apprentice.
Morgan Ellen 19 Armagh NA RC PRONI BG2/G/3 (323) thinly and badly clothed, Irish St., Armagh, entered workhouse 14 August 1849, left 4 Oct 1849. Empl. Rosanna Shaw, Collins St., Melbourne, £12, 6 mths. Married Ernest A Conybear in Melbourne 21 April 1851, husband a stonemason, c. 9 children, lived Newtown, Sandhurst and Collingwood. She died 29 April 1891, thirteen years after her husband.
Mulgreen Catherine 17 Asbon, Tyrone NA RC Mulgrew. Mulgew. Arbour, Tyrone. Empl. McDonague, Merri Creek, £8, 1 yr.
Mulligan Sarah 16 Bambridge,Down NA Presbyt. Empl. Joseph Bulloch, grocer, Flinders Lane, £6, 1 yr., apprentice. Married William Jacobs in Melbourne 29 March 1853, husband a butcher and goldminer, 13 children, lived Rushworth and Sandhurst, buried Bendigo 15 June 1907.
Murdock Martha 16 Tyrone NA Presbyt. Empl. George Beckers, farmer, nr. Heidelberg, £5, 12 mths., apprentice. Married William Seward, a labourer, in Melbourne 27 Sept. 1852, 1 child, died12 Jan 1860.
Murphy Anne 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Anthony Divin, South Geelong, £7, 2 yrs., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. Gillian Schrader, 8 Glencairn Pl., Mill Park 3082.
Murphy Rose 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Bessy (father dead) RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (475) Rose Ann 20 yr old entered with mother Bessy 50 yr old widow and Thomas 12 yr old, Union at large, in 16 March 1849, out 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Mr Bilby, Dandenong, £10, 3 mths. She married John Tow (b. England) after he had served his time in Van Diemen's Land, in Melbourne in 1851, 6 children. She died in Bendigo in 1889. Gillian Schrader (address above).
Murphy Catherine 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (4936) Union at large, entered workhouse 19 Dec 1848, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. James Liddy, Bourke St., £10, 6 mths. Gillian schrader (address above).
Murphy Mary Anne 15 Bambridge, Down NA RC Barnbridge, Devon. Empl. John Mitchell, Great Collins St., £6, 12 mths.
Nichols Elizabeth 18 Tahen, Donegal NA Presbyt. Nicholls. Fahan, Donegal. Empl. James Mahoney, Bacchus Marsh, £9.
Orr Isabella 17 Bambridge, Down NA CofE Empl. Miles Kearney, Little Bourke St., £9, 6 mths.
Orr Rebecca 16 Londonderry, Derry NA CofE Empl. John Buckland, Geelong, £8, 12 mths., apprentice. Married a carpenter, James Scott, in Geelong 27 May 1851, 9 children, lived Ashby and Ballarat, died 17 Oct 1869..
Osborne Maryt 18 Ballymooney, Armagh NA Presbyt. PRONI BG2/G/3 (2140) Killern. Ballymacawley, ragged and dirty entered workhouse 13 March 1848, left 4 Oct 1849. Osburne. Empl. John Watt, Oakfield, £8, 6 mths.
Park Mary 18 Biwedy (?), Derry NA Presbyt. Empl. Ann Wood, Swanston St., £8, 6 mths.
Paul Margaret 18 Coleraine, Derry James and Mary CofE Daughter of James Paul, shoemaker, and Mary Watt. Empl. Mrs Collnell, Elizabeth St., £9, 3 mths. Returned from hospital. Returned to service. Returned to depot from hospital. Married in the Buninyong Manse to Charles Brown, labourer and carpenter 8 May 1854, lived Blue Mountain, Sago Hill, 9 children, died 30 August 1912, buried Ballarat. Mrs Jan Drennan, 26 Pleasant St., South Ballarat 3350.
Peacock Mary 15 Ballinatroute, Antrim NA CofE PRONI BG1/GA/1 (4240) dirty, deserted, entered workhouse 9 March 1848, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Francis Anderson, Settler, Teatree Creek, £6, 12 mths.
Quinn Mary 17 Tullymuch, Tyrone NA CofE Tallamuch. Empl. James McKenna, policeman, Geelong, £8, 6 mths.
Quinn Mary 16 Antrim NA RC PRONI BG1/GA/2 (463) orphan. Tyrone(?). Empl. Rody Lowlie, Little Bourke St., £9, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Quinn Jane 14 Addstow, Tyrone NA RC Awnsan. Empl. Mr Geoghegan, Great Collins St., £9, 9sh., 3 mths.
Reed Sarah 17 Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG1/GA/2 (198) Union at large, dirty, entered workhouse 16 March 1849, out 3 Oct 1849. Empl. N A Coty, Melbourne, £6, 6mths. Married Parkhurst exile William Bradshaw 17 May 1852, Geelong, c. 9 children, husband a bootmaker and shepherd, lived Shipton, died 6 July 1911. Mattie Bennett, Unit 85, 'Leith Park', 339 St Helena Rd., North Eltham 3095.
Riley Bridget 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (1120) 18 yr old single Letterbreen Leamore, entered workhouse 24 August 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Ryley. Empl. Jeremiah Rigby, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths.
Riley Rose 18 Bough, Fermanagh NA RC Ryley. Brough, Fermanagh. Empl. Timothy Ahern, grocer, Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths. Married James King, Melbourne, 1851, may have died in 1868.
Riley Mary Anne 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (1816) 12 yr old orphan Stonefield, entered workhouse 14 Dec 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Ryley. Empl. Frederick Fitzgerald, Russell St., £8, apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Riley Catherine 18 White Hill, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (1486) 16 yr old orphan clean and healthy, Ballycassidy, Laragh, entered workhouse 12 Oct 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Ryley. Empl. Daniel Leahy,La Trobe St., £9, 6 mths. Married Thomas Brown a policeman later a miner, Melbourne, 5 May 1852, 10 children, lived Taradale, buried Malmsbury, 9 April 1912.
Riley Jane 15 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE Ryley. 17. Empl. John Humphries, Collins St., £8, 6 mths.
Robinson Agnes 19 Ballyclare, Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG1/GA/1 (3332) dirty. Empl. Robert Charles, Richmond, £10, 6 mths.
Ross Margaret 15 Roscarne, Fermanagh NA CofE Rosscairn. Empl. James Richardson, Lonsdale St., £6, 1 yr., apprentice. Married Vandemonian Bernard John Reynolds (b. 1817 Co. Cavan, per Emerald Isle 1843, d. Dec 1877) 28 April 1851, in Wesleyan Church, Melbourne, 8 children. Margaret became destitute when her husband went to gaol in 1869. Her youngest children went into Industrial School and some of the older ones to gaol. One son, Barny Reynolds, was later secretary to John Wren. Mary Beaumont, PO Box 72, Mooroolbark, 3138.
Shannan Nancy 16 Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG1/GA/2 (485) dirty, entered workhouse 5 August 1849, left 3 Oct 1849. Shannon. Mary. Empl. James Bowey, Collingwood, £6, 1 yr., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Sharkey Elizabeth 17 Omagh, Tyrone NA RC Empl. John English, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths. Eliza's history in Australia is a difficult one to unravel.She was a house servant who could read and write and married more than once. Elizabeth Sharkey/Middleton/Watts/Garment died 5 Sept. 1916 in Bathurst NSW. after living in Geelong, Victoria and Hobart. Allanah: allanah[atalphalink.com.au ;Chrissy Fletcher who has her own website:pastlane[at]bigpond.net.au
Sloane Ann 16 Ballymeancy, Antrim NA Presbyt. PRONI BG5/G/1 (3810) Kilrea stout mendicant. Morrison. Empl. Robert Scholes, Killochue, £8, 12 mths. Married Henry Patterson 30 Jan 1852, c. 7 children. Carol Harding, 16 Servante St., Sunshine 3020.
Sloane Jane 15 Ballynear, Antrim John and Jane Presbyt. Ballyneer. Empl. Mr Hill, baker, Stephen St., £6, 12 mths., apprentice. Daughter of John Sloane and Jane Stirling. Married John Hanson in Geelong 5 Nov 1851, present at the Eureka Rising in Ballarat in 1854, 8 childen, died 28 August 1909, buried Colac with her husband who died in 1873. Mary Hanson, 146 Dales Creek Ave., Greendale 3341.
Sloane Mary 16 Kilrea, Antrim Thomas and Jane Presbyt. PRONI BG5/G/1 (3181) Kilrea. Labourer entered workhouse 15 Nov 1847 left 4 Oct 1849; entered as part of a family group, Thomas, father, 45 yr old infirm, died in workhouse 7 Nov 1848, mother Jane 44 yr old died in workhouse 25 Feb 1848, sister Ann came to Australia (see above), sister Elizabeth died 3 Jan 1851. Nancy. Kildare, Antrim. Empl. William Clarke, Melbourne, £8, 6 mths.
Smith Margaret 17 Enniskillen,Fermanagh NA RC Empl. John Brown, Heidelberg, £10, 6 mths.
Sprouls/Sprowles Susannah 15 Antrim NA CofE PRONI BG1/GA/1 (3735) servant dirty orphan entered workhouse 2 Dec 1847, out 3 Oct 1849. Morrison Sprowles her father's name. Empl. Jane McSweeney, Lonsdale St., £9, 12 mths, apprentice. Married James McBean from Scotland in Melbourne 29 Dec 1856, c. 5 children, lived Auburn and Hawthorn. James ran a successful watchmaking, jewellery and optical business in Elizabeth St., Melbourne and owned six properties in Melbourne and one at Lorne at the time of Susanna's death in 1901. Their grandson became Director of Medical Sevices, 2nd AIF, and was knighted..
Stewart Margaret 19 Invermore, Antrim NA RC Empl. Peter Monsaigh, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 3 mths.
Stirrup Eliza 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA Cof E PRONI BG14/G/5 (2237) servant out of work entered workhouse 31 July 1849, left 3 Oct. 1849. Empl. James Purves, Chewton, £10, 6 mths. Married George Stone, several children born in the Kilmore area, also lived in the Wangaratta and Alexander areas.
Sturdy Margaret 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (2320) servant Ballycassidy, Tullany, entered workhouse 3 March 1848, left 3 Oct 1849. Strudy. Empl. William Cranston, tanner, King St., cancelled by Dr Patterson.
Taylor Elizabeth 17 Crevin, Tyrone NA RCPresbyt. Empl. William Johnstone, Bourke St., £6, 6 mths.
Taylor Mary Jane 17 Coleraine, Derry NA CofE Antrim. Empl. Charles Forrest, South Yarra, £8, 12 mths.
Thomas Susan 15 Banbridge, down NA RC Empl. JMichael Lynch, storekeeper, Flinders Lane, £5, 2 yrs., apprentice. Possibly married James Merryleas, St Francis' Church Melbourne 2 April 1853, 8 children. Mrs Joan Poulter, 12 Allenby Ave., Reservoir 3073.
Thomson Mary Ann 15 Glenargh, Tyrone NA CofE Glennarch. Empl. Mr Bestmond (?), Brighton, £7, 1 yr., apprentice. Married John Lindsay Robertson in 1855.
Todd Anne 18 Coleraine, Derry Thomas and Agnes RC Antrim. Empl. Edward Fitzsimmons, Bourke St., £6, 6 mths. Married Richard Wellard/Wealard (b. Dover), Melbourne, 28 July 1855, husband a limeburner and labourer, 9 children, husband died 31 May 1887, his estate valued at £513, no record of her death.
Totten Sarah 16 Armagh James and Hannah CofE PRONI BG2/G/1 (3514) 12 yr old Hockley thinly clothed, dirty, entered workhouse 24 May 1845, mistaken exit date, also in workhouse was mother Hannah 31 yr old married to James Totten, and sister Eliza. Lough Brittel, Armagh. Empl. Archibald Wilson, Melbourne, £6, 1 yr., appentice. Married William Howes a silk dyer in Melbourne 4 August 1851; husband's estate valued at £167 in 1876, ten years after his death, bequeathed to George Duncan in trust for three children 'inmates of government Industrial Schools' and the fourth child, 'Caroline, now in some part of Melbourne'.
Trotter Letitia 15 Tandaragee, Armagh NA CofE Empl. Mr Martin Haye (?), Latrobe St., £8, 1 yr. See Argus 22 Oct 1850 and 2 Nov. 1850 re unlawful transfer of apprentice.
Tully Ellen 15 Cookstown, Antrim NA RC Empl. Michael Clancy, Little Bourke St., £5, 12 mths., apprentice.
Weir Eliza NA NA NA RC Died on board, disease of the heart.
Wherry Catherine 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA CofE PRONI BG14/G/4 (1557) Ballycassidy, Tullyany, entered the workhouse 24 Oct 1847, left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Jane Boys, Collins St., £8, 3 mths. Married John White in Chadbro, South Australia 4 May 1851, several children born in Victoria. She died in Victoria in 1878.
Wherry Jane 18 Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (Enniskillen Indoor Register) (1343) 18 yr old bastard, Rahalton, Keelaghan, entered workhouse 28 sept 1847 left 15 Dec 1847. BG14/G/5 (2267) Union at large entered 7 August 1849 left 3 Oct 1849. Empl. Mrs Tulloch, Portland, £14. Married James King, Portland, 1853, no further information.
Wilcocks Jemima 15 Armagh NA CofE PRONI BG2/G/1 (12) Sister of Charlotte below, seven years in workhouse, deserted by father, entered 4 June 1842, left 4 Oct 1849. Wilcox. Empl. William Buckley, Melbourne, £8, 2 yrs., apprentice. Married Edgar Davis in Collingwood 13 Dec. 1857, husband a clerk and stationer, lived Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond, c. 11 children. In 1874 Edgar purchased a bookstore and newsagency. He died 14 July 1914 and she, 15 sept 1915, both buried Brighton.
Wilcocks Charlotte 16 Armagh NA CofE PRONI BG2/G/1 (13) sister of Jemima above and Edward 13 yr old, totally disabled, she first left the workhouse 17 Nov 1842. Empl. Michael Murthur(?), grocer, Little Collins St., £8, 1 yr. Married David Graveur, musician, 15 July 1850, lived Melbourne, Sandhurst, Warrnambool and New South Wales, 11 children, 6 of whom died in childhood. Charlotte died in NSW in 1917.
Wilson Mary Anne 15 Montmain (?), Antrim NA CofE Moulman. East Indies. Empl. John Brougham, Edward River, £8, 12 mths., apprentice.
Woodside Margaret 15 Ballynew, Antrim NA Presbyt. Ballymoor. Empl. Mr Ledgman, carpenter, £8, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. It's worth your close attention.
Young Jane 16 Antrim NA CofE PRONI BG1/GA/2 (295) Ballyinney, dirty, entered workhouse 26 April 1849, left Oct 1849. Town Of Antrim. Empl. Robert Charles, Richmond, £8, 12 mths., apprentice. May have married James Murphy, labourer/sawyer in Melbourne or Geelong in 1850/53, 10 children, lived Yan Yean from 1859. James died 21 Oct 1870; Jane died 12 May 1876 and is buried in Whittlesea cemetery. C H Dennis, 20 Bundeena Ave., Kealba 3021.




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DERWENT. Arrived 25 February 1850. SRNSW 4/4817 Reel 2145 (with thanks to Ada Ackerley, Linda Paoloni and to Dr Pauline Rule) Surname First Name Age Native Place Parents Religion Other
Arbuckle Mary 23 Tyrone NA Presbyt. Gone, taken home by her brother-in-law George Hunter of Flinders Lane. Married James Carter, a farmer, Brighton, 24 June 1850, died Brighton 1855. The Arbuckle family were fairly well off and a well known family of Strabane. L R Swindley. 25 Ryland Ave., Croydon, 3136.
Arbuckle Ann 18 Tyrone NA Presbyt. Gone, taken home by her brother-in-law George Hunter of Flinders Lane. Married James Rix, Brighton, 28 July 1851, husband a labourer, farmer and carter, 9 children, lived Brighton, Kyneton and Warrenheip. She died 4 Nov. 1879 from injuries received when a dray fell on her, buried Buninyong. L R Swindley (address above).
Arbuckle Sarah 16 Tyrone NA Presbyt. Gone, taken home by her brother-in-law, George Hunter of Flinders Lane. Married Joseph Richardson (emancipated convict), Brighton, 8 Feb. 1851, husband a farmer at Brighton, Kyneton and landowner, Phillip Island, 12 children. Sarah died a 'gentlewoman', 2 May 1908, buried Cowes. Her estate valued at £23 in 1908. His estate valued at £6,643 in 1892. L R Swindley, address above.
Armstrong Bessy 16 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA CofE Lisanaskea. Empl. J G Reed, draper, Little Collins St., £9, 16 mths.
Armstrong Sarah 15 Rooky, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Charles Dawson, Collingwood, £6 12 mths, apprentice.
Armstrong Mary 15 Letterkenny, Donegal NA RC Empl. T Vorwerg, grocer, Great Lonsdale St., £7, 12 mths.
Blair Jane 16 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA CofE Lisanaskea, Must be gone--is gone--.
Boyler Mary 16 Armagh NA RC Empl. John Wood, Corio St., Geelong, £7, 6 mths.
Boyle Mary 15 Armagh NA RC Empl. Thomas Reed, Melbourne, £7, 12 mths, apprentice.
Brian Bessy 15 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. Joseph Walters, Bourke st. East, £8, 6 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32. It's worth your close attention.
Brian/Breen Biddy 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (hereafter PRONI) holds a fine collection of workhouse Indoor Registers. Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Workhouse admission and discharge registers (hereafter PRONI) Enniskillen BG14/G/4 (124), Breen, deserted, Enniskillen, Levaghy, entered workhouse 4 July 1847, out 26 Oct 1849. Empl. John Figless (?), Bourke St., £7, 1 yr, apprentice.
Brighton Margaret 17 Newry, Down NA RC Empl. Mr Stephen Hare, Brunswick St., £8, 15 mths.
Burns Margaret 16 Blacklim, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Daniel Fox, Queen St., £10, 3 mths. Married Joseph Henry Collins, Williamstown, c 9 children, husband a master mariner. She died 3 Jan 1908. Brenda Giles, 84 Benbow St., Spotswood 3015.
Campbell Ellen 16 Temple, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Ambrose Draper, Brighton, £7, 6 mths.
Cassidy Mary 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (2517) stated by Surgeon Nixon to be in distress, (3445) returned after being discharged and having no place to go, (3778) recommended by Wm Henderson, relieving officer, Enniskillen Commons, entered workhouse 6 Sept 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Charles Chessell, South Yarra, £8, 6 mths.
Cliffordy/Clifferty Ellen 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 (896) Clifferty Manor of Carrick, Killen. BG14/G/5 Union at large, entered workhouse 13 Feb. 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Richard Forrest, Ryrie St., Geelong, £10, 6 mths.
Connelly Catherine 16 Armagh NA RC A Cath. Connelly appears in PRONI BG2/G/2 (3392) 18yo thinly clothed and destitute, Armagh, entering 24 Jan 1848 and leaving 4 Feb 1848. Empl. M I Fitzgerald, Salt Water River, £7, 1 yr.
Connelly/Connolly Letitia 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (2065) orphan, Ballyreagh, Salry, entered workhouse 2 Feb 1848 left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. L Tweedy, Lonsdale St., £7, 12 mths. 18 March. Returned to depot 29 April. Reassigned Mrs McClelland, Collins St., £5, 3 mths. 3 July "still not returned". Connolly. Married Wm Hayes, Brighton, 4 May 1856, 5 children, husband a storekeeper, lived Dunolly. She died 13 May 1899. His estate valued at £7,487 in 1890; he was an astute businessman who had become wealthy on the dividends from the Goldsborough Mining Company. See Barefoot vol. 2, 134-6.
Criggan/Creegan(?) Mary 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (230) Laragh, Belview, (4000) entered workhouse along with widow Nancy Creegan 17 Oct 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Walter Furlong, Darebin Creek, £10, 6 mths.
Criggan Isabella 15 Fermanagh NA RCE Empl. Francis Nodin, Collingwood, £8, 12 mths., apprentice.
Curran Biddy 20 Newry, Down NA RC Armagh. Empl. John Lynch, Stephen St., £10, 3 mths., "convicted".
Dickson Mary Anne 16 Swadlenbar, Cavan NA RC Empl. James La Cussygron(?), Little Lonsdale St., £10, 12 mths.
Drum Ann 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh James & Ann Hazeldean RC PRONI BG 14/G/5 (1750) orphan, not disabled, in a starving condition, Holywell, Corrateskeen, entered workhouse 30 Nov 1847, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Mr McDermott, River Plenty, £8, 6 mths. Daughter of James Drum, soldier, and Ann Hazeldean. Married Thomas Haley, widower with 3 children, 15 Sept. 1852, Melbourne. The couple had 7 children, lived Plenty Creek, selected land at Broken Creek before Thomas' death in 1868. In Dec. 1877 Annie became publican at the Mount Ada Hotel, renewing her licence in December 1881. She eventually moved to Benalla where she kept a boarding house. She died 17 July 1900 and is buried beside her husband in Devenish Cemetery. Fran Pengelly, PO Box 480, Leeton, 2705; Nell Morrison, 4 Jensen Crt, Echuca 3564; Mark Woods esmondewoods[at]hotmail.com
Duffy Fanny 17 Letterkenny, Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs Mary Oliver, 144 Latrobe St., £8, 3mths., "returned".
Early Mary 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh Patt & ? CofE PRONI BG14/G/5 (1419) deserted, in fever, entered workhouse along with brother Patt 15 yo, Carn, Drumna, 12 Oct 1847, left 10 July 1848, (3462) returned 18 July left 9 Oct 1848, (4162) returned, this time her father Patt, a widower, also enters the workhouse, 7 Nov. 1848. She left 26 Oct 1849. Bow. Empl. Mr Bond, King River, settler, £10, 12 mths.
Ellis Lucy 16 Newry, Down NA RC Empl. Mr George Hollis, Bacchus Marsh, £8, 12 mths.
Farmer Biddy 18 Kenoily, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Luke Chambers, Melbourne, £10, 3 mths.
Farmer Ann 17 Kenoily, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (4560) Mary Farmer Kinawly,Clundawel,entered workhouse with Cathy Farmer, 54 yo widow 28 Nov. 1848. She left 26 Oc1849. Empl. Michael Dunn, farmer, Dandenong, £8, 6 mths.
Farmer Mary 16 Kenoily, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. H H Nash, Stephen St., £7, 1 yr. apprentice.
Flaherty Catherine 17 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. "Returned". Empl. Catherine Duffy, Waurn(?) River, £10, 1 yr.
Gillogly/Gilloghly NA 18 Kilarcy/Kilarey, Armagh NA Rc Gilloghly. Kilarey. Empl. Henry Wade, Portland, £13, 9 mths.
Gillon Mary 16 Maccon, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Mr Riddles, Great Bourke St., £8, 3 mths.
Gormely/Gormelly Helena 18 Straban, Tyrone NA Rc Gormelly. Strabane. Empl. Joseph L'Estrange, Richmond, £12, 6 mths. As Ellen Gormely married Edmund Perry, Melbourne, 1850, had several children in Maryborough area. Edmund died in Maryborough, 15 Oct 1896, Ellen in 1905.
Graham Eliza 16 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA CofE Lisanaskea. Empl. Henry Daw, Melbourne, £8, 6mths.
Greenfield Eliza 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 clean and healthy, Enniskillen town, entered workhouse 12 Oct 1847 left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Mr Robert Whitehead, Spring Creek, South Yarra, £8, 12 mths., apprentice.
Hafferty/Helferty Catherine 19 Maugherafelt,Derry NA RC PRONI BG/23/G/1 (1900) (2080) (2535) Helferty, Killyfaddy, entered with Ellen 50 yo widow, mendicant and William 15, Nancy 11, John 9, 18 Nov 1848. She left 30 Oct 1849. Empl. F Emery, South Yarra, £12, 6 mths.
Hagin/Hogan Margaret 15/16 Brookborough, Fermanagh NA RC Hogan. 16. Empl. Robert Absolom, Lonsdale St., £8,6 mths.
Hamilton Biddy/Betty 15 Ballymena, Antrim NA Presbyt. Betty PRONI BG14/G/2 (4155) entered with Jane 17 yo 14 June 1849. She left 25 Oct 1849. Betsy. Empl. Thomas Cunningham, South Yarra, £7, 12 mths., apprentice.
Hoines/Hoins Jane 18 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG/14/G/4 (913) Hoins. Enniskillen town, entered workhouse 4 July 1847, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Patrick Nowlan, Bourke St., £9, 3 mths.
Howell Sarah 14 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. Edger Garmroy, King St., £8, 12 mths., apprentice. prentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Hurles Mary 16 Ballycastle, Antrim NA/td> RC Hurls. PRONI BG 3/G/1 (3661) 15 yo, entered workhouse with Eliza 13 yo and Jane 10 yo 4 May 1849, left 25 Oct 1849. Empl. Sarah Matthews, £8, 3 mths.
Hutchinson Jane 16 Derry NA RC PRONI BG23/G/1 (3032) resides Union at large, servant, no means of support, deserted, entered workhouse 31 Oct 1846, left 6 January 1847; (6670) Desertmartin, laborer, healthy, entered again 9 June 1848, left 30 Oct 1849. Empl. Michael Madden, Merri Creek, £9, 6 mths.
Keenan Catherine 16 Menay, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Mrs Hobson, Yarra River, £6, 6mths.
Kelly Bridget 18 Tarry William, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Robert McNamara, Moonee Ponds, £10, 6 mths.
Lafferty/Laverty Jane 18 Ballymena, Antrim NA RC Laverty. PRONI BG 4/G/2 (1642) (2428) and (3355) 1st entry Culabackey, Galgorm, in fever; last entry, entered 7 Dec 1848, left 25 Oct 1849. Empl. John Palmer, Queen St., £10, 3 mths.
Lee Margaret 17 Killami, Cavan NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/5 (1522) Killinagh, Gubarceny, entered workhouse 24 May 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Thomas Mason, Darebin Creek, £8, 6 mths.
Lee Anne 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/5 (1865) Killinagh, Cerrohoose, entered workhouse 18 June 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. John Martin, Merri Creek, £7, 6 mths.
Little Jane 16 Armagh NA CofE Empl. Henry Townend, Collins St., £6, 12 mths.
Loyle/Loye Catherine 16 Poynt's Pass, Armagh NA RC Loye. Poyntzpass(?) Empl. Mrs E Cohen, auctioneer, Great Bourke St., £8, 6 mths., apprentice.
Lynch Bessy 15 Hilltown, Down NA RC Empl. William Lock, Queen St., £6, 1 yr.
Lyons Margaret 18 Glasgow, Lanarkshire NA RC Empl. George Ward Cole, Brighton, £12, 3 mths.
McAnnally Ann 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh James & Mary RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 (1081) deserted and in a starving condition, entered workhouse with her mother Mary, John 16yo, Cathy 14yo, Mary 11yo, Rose 7yo and James18 mths, from Ballycassidy, Monolea; (1858) all came in again, younger brother James dies 27 Dec 1847; (2918) by this time their father James has joined them in the workhouse 9 May 1848. Ann left 26 Oct 1849. Ballycassidy, Enniskillen. Empl. Henry Gasden, Steven St., pound;10, 6mths.
McBryan Biddy 16 Ahalogher, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. John Lynch, Collins St., £8, 12 mths.
McCabe Mary Ann 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (41) servant, out of place, Union at large, entered workhouse 2 January 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. John Treacy, Richmond, £10, 6 mths.
McCann Susan 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (4343) Letterbreen, Screen, entered workhouse 14 November 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Died in Hospital 15 April 1850.
McClosky/McCluskey Mary 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (609) deserted, Killinaghe, Legeeland, entered workhouse 4 July 1847, left 26 Oct 1849. McCluskey. Screen. Empl. Mrs Cassony (?), Great Bourke St., £7, 12 mths.
McConaghy/McConachy Eliza 15 Antrim NA Presbyt. Empl. Patrick Fitzgerald, Salt Water River, £6, 1 yr., apprentice.
McCreedy Mary 15 Newtonstuart, Galway NA RC MeCready. Empl. William Ashby, Little Lonsdale St., £6, 2yrs, apprentice.
McCrystal Isabella 16 Magherafelt, Derry Mickey &Biddy RC PRONI BG23/G/1 (3185) (4007) Ballymoghan, Megargy, enterd workhouse with father Mickey 61 yo, Biddy 50yo (died in workhouse 21 May 1847) and brother John 12 yo, very urgent, 8 MArch 1847, left 10 sept 1849 (sic). Empl. Donald McBean, Goulburn River, £9, 6 mths., returned.
McCullock/McCullogh Mary Anne 18 Downpatrick, Down NA RC McCullogh. Empl. Winsford, printer, Melbourne, £10/10/-, 3 mths.
McDonnell/McDonald Mary 18 Enniskillen,Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (4742) McDonald. Tempo, Ratosan, entered workhouse 5 Dec 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. S Nelson, South Yarra, £7, 6mths.
McDonough Anne 19 Dublin NA CofE McDoughnough. Empl. AW Wilson, Flinders Lane East, £10, 3 mths.
McEgan Rose 19 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Thomas Reed, Bourke St., £11, 3 mths.
McFadden Mary 16 Letter Kenny, Donegal NA RC Empl. Patrick McGuire, Cnr Little Collins and Russell Sts. £7, 6mths. Mary married James Ennis, date and place unknown. At least 7 children born Dunolly, Eddington, Amherst areas. Family eventually settled in Charlton where Mary died 25 dec. 1897.
McGee Catherine 18 Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (723) Florencecourt, Mulvanigh, entered workhouse 20 March 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. John Wippel, Shortlands, near Heidelberg,, £11, 3 mths.
McGennis Margaret 18 Barnamhil, Down NA CofE Empl. Jane Aismith (?), Collins St., £8 6mths.
McGill/Magill Mary 15 Dublin NA CofE PRONI BG12/G/2 (262) Mary Magill (?) 15 yo, EC (Established Church), out of service, Union at Large, entered 12 July 1849, left 25 Oct 1849. Empl. John Watson, Elizabeth St., £7, 12 mths., apprentice. See PROV VPRS 521 Melbourne Gaol Unit 1A No 383.
McGourn/Magoveran/McGowan Bessy 15 Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (921) Magoveran, Union at Large, Armanant, entered workhouse 15 April 1849 left 26 Oct 1849. McGowan. Empl. MG Smith, shoemaker, Little Lonsdale St., £7, 12 mths.
McGrady Catherine 20 Seaford, Down NA RC Empl. James Hooper, Merri Creek, £10, 6 mths.
McGrath Catherine 17 Kilmagh, Cavan NA RC Empl. Henry Wade, Portland, £8, 6 mths.
McGuire Catherine 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (819) orphan, Union at Large, entered 4 July 1847, left 26 Oct 1849 (see two Cathy McGuires below). Empl. Charles Horrett/Horress(?), Collingwood, £8, 6 mths.
McGuire Catherine 16 Enniskilen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 (2497), orphan, Letterbreen, Collermer, entered with sister Bessy 7 yo and brother James 2yo 22 March 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Servant to Dr Rowe Kilmore, £9, 1 yr. 10 children to first husband, 4 to second, lived Kilmore, Sandhurst (Bendigo) and died Deniliquin, 1894.
McGuire Helen 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Mr(?) Bygrave, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 3 mths.
McGuire Jane 15 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. Frederick Sweeting, Five Mile Creek, £10, 1 yr., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
McGuire Catherine 14/15 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. John McDonald, Little Lonsdale St., £6, apprentice.
McGuire Margaret 14 Seaford, Down NA RC Empl. Mrs Hugh Brown, Lonsdale St., Melbourne, £5, 3 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
McHugh Mary 18 Killinagh, Cavan NA RC Empl.Mr Croxsier(?), Lonsdale St., £8, 6 mths.
McKelville/McKelvy Catherine 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (1999) McKelvy. Castlecoole,Garvary, entered workhouse 18 January 1848, left 4 Dept. 1848, along with sister Maty (4071) Castlecoole, Cavancarragh, entered again 24 Oct 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Mr Clarke, Bacchus Marsh, £7, 12 mths., apprentice.
McKendry Margaret 15 Ballycastle, Antrim NA RC Empl. N G Conn, farmer, Darebin Creek, £8, 12 mths.
McKenna Ann 19 Newry, Down NA RC Empl. Charles Buntani, jeweller, Collins St., £10, 3 mths.
McKeon Margaret 17/16 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. 16. Empl. Mary Robertson, Swanston St., £8, 3 mths.
McKeon Mary Ann 16 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. Adam Dumass, Great Collins St., £8, 6 mths.
McLaughlin/McLachlan Rose 16 Letterkenny, Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs C Plemkell-Hunt(?), Little Collins St., £8, 3 mths. Married Samuel Giles in 1852, Melbourne. 10 children mostly born in Avoca and Ballarat areas. Rose died Ballarat 1894.
McMahon Catherine 18 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Miss O'Farrell, Collins St., cancelled.
McMahon Jane 15 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. John Powell, Collins St., £8, 12 mths.
McManus Ann 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (4911) Laborer, Letterbreen, entered workhouse 11 Dec. 1848, left 26 Oct. 1849. Achanagh. Empl. Mrs Charles Tynon, Collins St., £8.
McManus Margaret 17 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 (4060) Rahalton, Derrygonnelly. Entered workhouse 24 Oct 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Agricultural servant, Richmond, £8, 6 mths.
McManus Mary 15 Fermanagh NA RC Empl. B Punch, Bourke St., £7, 1 yr., apprentice.
McMonagle/McManagle Mary 15 Lettekenny, Donegal NA RC Empl. Charles Buntani, jeweller, Collins St., £6, 12 mths., apprentice. Married (1) Joshua Rowe, date and place unknown, children born Avoca and St Arnauds. Joshua died 1871. Married (2) Charles Fitchers in 1873. She died in St Arnauds in 1901.
McMurray/McMorrow Catherine 17 Killena, Cavan NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/5 (2125) McMorrow. Killinagh, Kilduff, entered workhouse 17 July 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. John Colgan, Little Bourke St., £9, 6 mths.
McQuide/McQuade Sarah 15 Derry NA RC PRONI BG23/G/1 (5870) McQuade. The Loop, orphan, mendicant, sickly, entered workhouse 2 Feb 1848, out 10 sept. 1848 (sic). Empl. James Mooney, Kilmore, £6, 2 yrs., apprentice.
McShean Catherine 18 Dundalk, Louth NA RC Empl. Thomas Stevens, contractor, Queen's St., £10, 3mths.
McWard Mary 16 Rah, Donegal NA RC Empl. George Thwaits, Stephen St., £8, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2.
McWard Jane 14 Rah, Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs C Penna(?), Great Bourke St., £6, 3 yrs., apprentice.
McWilliams Margaret 15 Derry Rose RC PRONI BG23/G/1 (2590-96) (3472-9) (7211-15) Carnamoney, Coolnasilla, entered with Rose 38 yo widow, Cathy 15 yo, Mary 13, Rose 11 25 Nov 1848, out 10 August 1848. Margaret leaves 30 Oct 1849. Culinless. Empl. John Crusted, Muddy Water Lake, Geelong, £8, 1 yr., apprentice.
Melanophy/Malamphy Rose 17 Blacklane, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/5 (180)Malamphy, Florencecourt, Gortane entered workhouse 16 Jan 1849, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Mary King, Little Bourke St., £6, 3mths.
Melanophy Mary 16 Killenagh, Cavan NA RC Empl. C. Daly, Geelong, £8.
Melanophy/Malanophy Anne 15 Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (448) Malanophy. Florencecourt, Glenawley, entered workhouse 4 July 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Mrs Harvey, off King St., £6/10/-, 12 mths.
Moor Mary 17 Belfast, Antrim NA CofE Empl. Thomas McDermott, Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
Murphy Catherine 18 Armagh NA RC A Cath. Murphy appears PRONI BG2/G/2 (36) 14 yo orphan, RC, Market Hill, entering workhouse 15 Feb 1848 and leaving 13 April 1848. Lessumner. Empl. Jeremiah Bowles, Flinders St., £9, 12 mths.
Murphy Ellen 17 Kinnally, Fermanagh John & Ellen RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (4964) entered workhouse with John and Ellen, mother and father,also sister Anne, Kinawley, Derryholaght, 26 Dec 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. Thomas Purnell, Elizabeth St., £10, 6 mths.
Murphy Margaret 17 Castelwol, Fermanagh NA RC Castelrool(?). Empl. Michael Ryan, Great Bourke St., £8, 6 mths.
Murphy Margaret 16 Letterbrun, Fermanagh NA RC Empl. Patrick McIlray, Merri Creek, £7, 12 mths., apprentice.
Murphy Ellen 15 Newry, Down NA RC Letterbrun, Fermanagh. Empl. Michael Londrigan, returned for reassignment, Portland, pound;12, 12 mths., apprentice.
Murray Bridget 16 Ahalogher, Fermanagh NA RC Newry, Down. Empl. Peter Gay, Great Collins St., £8, 12 mths., apprentice.
Noble Margaret 19 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA CofE Lisanaskea. Empl. Dr Patterson, Melbourne, £9, 16 mths. MArried Edmund Fox in Melbourne, 1850, 3 children by 1856. Edmund died in 1857, Margaret at Nhill in 1899.
O'Brien Ann 16 Enniskillen, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG14/G/4 (2398) Labourer, able-bodied, Castlecoole, Galway, entered workhouse 14 March 1848, left 4 April 1848, (2610) Union at large, entered again 6 April 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Gone with Matron.
O'Donnell Margaret 16 Letterkenny, Donegal NA RC Empl. JB Taylor, Little Church St., £6, 12mths.
O'Neill Mary 19 Ballamena NA RC PRONI BG4/G/2 (1340) (4161) Ballyclug, entered workhouse 30 Dec 1847, out 18 Sept 1848, entered again 28 June 1849 left 25 Oct 1849. Ballymena. Empl. Edward Rae, Melbourne, £9, 6 mths.
Patterson Mary/Ann 16 Trone NA Presbyt. Ann.Empl. George Ward Cole, Brighton, £10, 3 mths.
Perry Mary Jane 18 Downpatrick, Down NA RC PRONI BG12/G/1 (2935) entered workhouse 14 Nov 1846, left 15 August 1847. BG12/G/2 (242) Mary J Perry, servant, out of service, Downpatrick, entered workhouse 6 July 1849, left 25 Oct 1849. Jane. Empl. Mr James Hoossen, Merri Creek, £10, 6 mths.
Rice Eliza 19 Kiramea, Down NA RC Kiramen. Empl. James Mayne, Elizabeth St., Melbourne, £11, 6mths.
Robinson Mary 15 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. Robert Farrell, Little Collins St., £8, 3 mths.
Rooney Ann 17 Kenawley, Fermanagh NA RC Kenanly. Empl. Patrick Egan, Lonsdale St., £6, 12 mths.,
Rooney Mary 15 Downpatrick, Down NA RC Empl. Dan Rooney, butcher, Lonsdale St., £5, 2 yrs., apprentice
Sharkey Sarah J 17 Strabane, Tyrone NA RC Empl. George Ward Cole, Brighton, £11, 3 mths.
Sheridan Fanny 17 Downpatrick, Down NA RC PRONI BG12/G/2 (378) 16 yo single, want of employment, Union at Large, entered 12 August 1849, left 25 Oct 1849. Empl. James Murphy, Moonee Ponds, £10, 6 mths.
Sheridan Biddy 15 Glen, Cavan NA RC Empl. John Daly, Moonee Ponds, £6, 2 yrs, apprentice. Married Edward Miller in 1851, farmer, Moonee Ponds, Edgecombe and Malmsbury, 6 children. She died by drowning 25 Feb 1863, buried Kyneton. Kyneton Guardian 28 Feb. 1863.
Taylor Mary Jane 19 Tyrone NA CofE Empl. Thomas Davis, Melbourne, £9, 6 mths.
Taylor Isabella 16 Newton Stewart, Tyrone NA CofE Empl. John Cook, Swanston St., £10, 6 mths.
Tiernay Jane 18 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. John McCarty, Little Collins St., £14, 12 mths.
Tierney Mary 18 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA RC Lisanaskea. Empl. J W Bell, Melbourne, £14, 12 mths.
Toye Mary 16 Sacker, Donegal NA RC Empl. Thomas Robinson, Lonsdale St., £8, 12 mths, apprentice. Married (1) John Cormick, Melbourne, 3 August 1853, at least 3 children born on the goldfields, especially in the north-east. John died 1862. Married (2) Michele Cashga from Malta in 1883. She died in Chiltern in 1902.
Trainer Ann 16 Maherfelt, Derry Cathy Cassidy RC PRONI BG23/G/1 (28) (431) (589) (1387) (1685) (2273) (5617) (7344) bastard child of Cathy Cassidy, a spinner and mendicant, Tobermore, Drumreany, in and out of workhouse from 1842, sometimes named Ann Traynor, sometimes Anne Cassudy, brothers, Patrick, Henry and Samuel. Her last entry was Union at Large, mendicant, desitute, entered 4 Jan 1849, left 30 Oct 1849. Empl. Andrew Doyle, carpenter, Collins St., £8, 6 mths. Peter Hansen, 121 Sumnervale Dr., Christchurch 8008 NZ.
Tummany/Tummaney Bridget 19 Howell, Fermanagh NA RC Tummaney. Portland(?) c/o Mt Gambier, Portland.
Wason Jane 16 Barnscourt, Tyrone NA RC Empl. Henry Davidson, Swanston St., £8, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Wilson Biddy 16 Ballycassidy, Fermanagh NA RC PRONI BG 14/G/4 (2220) Union at Large, entered 17 Feb. 1848, left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. John Sullivan, Melbourne, £8, 1 yr.
Woolahan/Oulaghan Elizabeth 17 Strabane, Tyrone NA Presbyt./CofE Woolongan. Woolaghan. CofE. Empl. Joseph Orr, Collingwood, £10, 12 mths. Married John Harris in Melbourne in 1852, 7 children born by 1870 in gold mining areas. Eliza may have died in 1874. Fiona Harris email: fiona.harris[at]barrington.com.au
Woolahan/Oulaghan Martha 20 Tyrone NA CofE/Presbyt. Woolonghan. Woolaghan. Strabane. Presbyterian. Empl. P Whitby, Woodstock, £11, 6 mths.
Wray Elizabeth 16 Lesanaskea, Fermanagh NA CofE Lisanaskea. Empl. Mary Richardson, widow, Collins St., £8, 6 mths.
Wray Mary Ann 14 Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. G Giffin, Immigration Office, £6, 12 mths.
Wright Johanna/Susannah(?) 15 Downpatrick, Down NA CofE PRONI BG12/G/2 (562) Susan Wright (?) 15 yo Downpatrick,houseless, entered workhouse 30 sept. 1849, left 25 Oct 1849. Susannah. Taken charge of by Mr Ritchie. As Susan Wright married John Wright in Melbourne, 1852, daughter Ann born 20 March 1853, father carpenter at time, at least 7 more children born by 1880, mostly in the Bealiba and Avoca areas.
Wymess/Weymyss Ann 18 Letterkenny, Donegal NA CofE Weymyss. Empl. Martha Alcock, Collingwood, £10, 3 mths. Married Charles Brouff, Melbourne, 1851. At least 7 children in various goldfield areas, appears to have settled for a time in Tarnagulla. In Dunolly Hospital, 1872 and 1882. No further information.
Wynn(e) Rose 20 Killinagh, Fermanagh NA RC Killinah. Wynne. Empl. Peter Casskern, Lake Colac £9, 12 mths.
Wynn(e) Mary 16 Killinagh, Fermanagh NA RC Killinah. Wynne. Empl. James Toohey, Brighton, £6, 6 mths.
Young Ann 16 Drumlock, Fermanagh NA CofE Empl. Rober Kerry, Bacchus Marsh, £8, 6 mths.
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ELIZA CAROLINE. Arrived 31 March 1850: From Melbourne to Geelong depot 1 May 1850 SRNSW 4/4817 Reel 2145 (with thanks to Ada Ackerley, Linda Paoloni and to Dr Pauline Rule) Surname First Name Age Native Place Parents Religion Other
Arnold Margaret 15 Cape of Good Hope NA RC Employer: Mrs Agan, Newtown, Geelong, £6, pa, 12 mths., apprentice. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see Trevor Mc Claughlin, Barefoot & Pregnant? vol.2, p.32.
Baker Mary/Margaret 16 Sligo NA CofE Margaret. Empl. Mr John Ready, Merri Creek, £8, 3mths. Married William Westcott, 1852. Numerous criminal convictions as Margaret Westgarth, died 10 Nov. 1872, Castlemaine Hospital.
Bath/Best Susan 21 Cork NA CofE Empl. Mrs J A Robinson, £9, 3 mths.
Bent Mary Ann 16 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Mrs Wm Howell, Morrabool St., Geelong, £8, 6 mths.
Bird Martha 18 Cork NA CofE Empl. J G Osborne, Collins St., Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
Boyle/Bogle Jane 19 Irvin, Donegal NA CofE Bogle Empl. C P Langston, Richmond, £7, 6 mths.
Bourke Margaret 16 Carrick on Suir NA RC Empl. Donald Cumming, Bald Hill, 20 miles on Sydney Road, £8, 1 yr.
Bowler Mary 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. John Culhane, Little Bourke St., Melb., £7, 6 mths.
Brady Mary 16 Drumfin, Sligo NA Rc Empl. Mrs Richard Leigh, Corio St., Geelong, £8, 6 mths.
Brandley/Bradly Ann 15 Donegal NA RC Bradly. Empl. James Deardon, Little Collins St., Melbourne £5, 2 yrs apprentice.
Brennan Ann 18 Hurlingford NA RC Empl. Samuel Kirk and Jos H Anderson, Cowies Creek, Geelong, £10, 6 mths. Married Bernard Burns, Geelong, 15 August 1850, several chldren born Geelong and then Echuca. Ann died in 1911.
Brien Ellen 14 Sligo NA RC Empl. John Andrews, Moonee Ponds, £7, 6mths.
Brien Ellen 15 Ballyporeen, Tipperary NA RC Geelong.Empl. Richard Morra, Point Henry, £8,6 mths.
Brien Margaret 19/17 Clogheen, Tipperary NA RC 17 Empl. John Brophy, Russell St. £8, 12 mths.
Briskell/Driscoll/Briskett Mary 19 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Briskett. Empl. Elizabeth Quinn, Barrabool Hills, £10 6 mths
Britt Margaret 17 Carrick on Suir,Tipperary NA RC Gone--Married. Married Robert Parry, Melbourne, 1 June 1850, husband a labourer, carrier and farmer, lived Kangaroo Ground, Eltham, Cale and Healesville, 7 children, died 25 June 1913, buried Coburg.
Brown Eliza/Alice 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Alice Empl. Johanna Shegles(Sharples?) Church St., Melbourne, £6, 3 mths.
Brown Catherine 16 Dungarvan, Waterford Na RC Empl. Richards& Bell, Portland, £10 6 mths. Married Andrew Burns, POrtland, 1851, at least 5 children born in Portland by 1868.
Bryan Margaret 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Patrick O'Brien, Little Bourke St.
Bryan Margaret 20 Waterford NA RC Empl. Denis Cartigan, Geelong, £9 6mths.
Buckley Jane 18 Cork NA RC City of Cork. Empl. John Lynch, Stephen St., £12, 3mths
Buckley Ellen 16 Cork NA RC City of Cork. Empl. Martin Sullivan, carter, Little Collins St., £7 p.a., 12mths.
Bulger Mary 15 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl.Mr Cochrane, Pt Henry Road, Geelong, £8, 12mths. Married Michael Nolan, Kilmore, 1852, at least 3 children born by 1859. Mary died Maryborough 5 Jan 1850.
Burke Mary 15 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Michael Logan, Great Collins St., £7, 1 yr.
Burns Eliza 19 Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs Hassett, Malop St., Geelong, £9, 6 mths.
Burns Eliza 18 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mrs Marianne Chamberlain, Ashby, Geelong, £8, 6mths.
Butler Ellen 16 Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Murphy, Ashby, Geelong, £7.
Butler Alice 16 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Robert Wilson, Yarra St., Geelong, £10, 6 mths. PROV VPRS 521 Melbourne Gaol vol 1 1855 no. 655.
Cahill Julia 15 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl. James Salt, brickmaker, Richmond, £7, 1yr.
Cahill/Caherne Judith 18 Carlow NA RC Caherne, Judith. Empl. Elizabeth Wilson, Little Scotland, Geelong, £7, 6mths.
Cain Bridget 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Thomas Boland, River Plenty, £8, 6mths.
Campbell Mary Ann 16 Sligo NA CofE Taken by Mr Russell, Melbourne, no agreement.
Campbell Mary 18 OUlart, Wexford NA RC Ouland Wexford. Empl. Mrs Spriggens, James St., Geelong, £8, 1yr.
Carroll Alice 16 Dundalk, Louth NA RC Empl. James Watson, Flemington, £9, 3mths.
Carroll/Doyle Mary 16 Sligo NA RC Died in hospital.
Cary/Carey/Dancy Mary 16 Clashmore, Waterford NA RC Carey. Empl. Dougal McPhail, Salt Water River, Melbourne, £8, 3 mths.
Cathcart Anne 16 Sligo NA CofE Empl. John Brew, Little Collins St., Melbourne, £8, 12 mths. Married William Newman, Melbourne, 16 Nov. 1852, 14 children, husband a plasterer, lived Ballarat, died 27 sept. 1895. Buried Melbourne. Kathy Baulch, 70 Rosemount Road, Koroit 3282.
Cathcart Jane 19 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Mrs Mary Kelly, Great Collins St., £8, 3 mths.
Clarke Mary 16 Sligo NA RC Gone to Hospital.
Clenane Mary 17 Manway, Cork NA RC Empl. John Leahy, Fyans Ford, Geelong, £8, 12mths.
Coghlan Mary 17 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Coughlan. Empl. Mrs Bouchier, Lime Kilns, Geelong, £10. See Barefoot vol 2 p 2 where her name is misspelt Colgan.
Collins Mary 17 Cork NA RC Drumanway, Cork. Empl. Mrs Andrew stewart, Bolangum, Wimeira, Geelong, £10, 12 mths. Married John Jack, Geelong, 18 August 1851, 10 children born in various gold mining areas, eventually settled in Stawell. John died 4 Nov. 1875 and Mary 21 June 1908. Both buried in Stawell.
Collins Ellen 17 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Thomas Harrington, Kilmore, £7, 12mths. Returned to Geelong--reassigned, James Ryan, Batesford, £10, 12 mths. Returned--reassigned Margaret Pajet, Fyans Ford, £6.
Condon Mary 18 Ballyragett, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mrs Caine, Little Bourke St., Melbourne, £8, 6 mths. Returned.
Connell/Collins Ellen 15 Tipperary NA RC Collins. Carrick on Suir, Tipperary. Empl. James Ryan, Batesford, Geelong, £10, 6mths.
Connelly/Connolly Catherine 16 Cork NA RC Connolly. Empl. Thomas Easter, Moonee Ponds, £9, 3mths.
Connolly Ellen 18 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mrs McKerne, Little Scotland, Geelong, £10, 6mths. Married William Mason, Geelong, 1853, twins born Geelong, 1853. Ellen buried in Geelong 9 March 1855.
Connor Mary 17 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Mrs Rachel Ackinson, Corio St., Geelong, £8, 6 mths. Returned and reassigned six times.
Conolly Eliza 30 Dublin NA RC Geelong List additional. Not a female orphan. This woman was a sub-matron on board the Eliza Caroline. Went to Mrs Duggan, a friend, Australia Inn. Married John Thompson, Geelong, 1851.
Connor Ellen 16 Cork NA CofE Empl. William Shene, Kalkallo District, £8, 12 mths.
Connor Margaret 18 Dundalk, Louth NA RC Geelong. Empl. Nathaniel Olding, Collingwood, £9,3mths. Mary Jane Ashmore for Mrs Noble, Indented Head, £10, 6mths.
Connor Margaret 18 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mary J Ashmore, Indented Head, Geelong, £10, 6mths.
Connors Mary 14 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl.James Harrison, Yarra St., Geelong, £4, 2yrs.
Considine Bridget 15/16 Tipperary NA RC 16 Nenagh, Tipperary. Returned; her uncle...Ryan...(?) £7/10/-, 3 mths.
Corbell/Corbett Bridget 17 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl. G Casuaby(?), Swanston St., Melbourne, £8, 6mths. Returned. J Trainor, Kilmore, £10, 12 mths. As Bridget Corbett married William Parsons, 1856; at least 6 children born in Euroa by 1865. Bridget died in 1868.
Corbell/Corbett Catherine 18 Cork NA RC Corbett. Empl. Mrs Bell, Collins St., Melbourne, £10, 6 mths.
Cormack Catherine 17 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Ewen Robertson, Darebin Creek, £8, 1 yr.
Coughlan Catherine 17 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Geelong. Empl. William Bonaldy, Woady Yallock, £10, 6mths. Married George Healey, Geelong, 1852. George may have died in 1858. Numerous convictions from late 1850s for drunkenness and vagrancy. Catherine died 16 June 1869.
Crowley Catherine 19 Bandon, Cork NA RC Empl. Daniel Connell, South Yarra, £8, 3 mths.
Crummins Bridget 17 Straban, Waterford NA RC Empl. Simon Jude, Church St., Melbourne £7/10/-, 6 mths. Returned (3 entries). Married Henry Sherlock, Melbourne, 1851, at least 8 children born by 1874. Bridget died in Port Fairy in 1912.
Cullinane Mary 17 NA NA RC Geelong List Additional. Empl. John Leahy, Fyans Ford, Geelong, £8, 1 yr. Maria Cullinane married Swiss born vigneron Louis Niffenecker, 28 Dec. 1852, Christ Church, Geelong. They set up home at Ceres vineyard, 9 children. Their eldest daughter was born in 1855 and had 17 children the youngest of whom, Emma Doreen was born in 1902 and was still hale and hearty in 2000 and determined to achieve her century. Neville Willmott, PO Box 302, Broadford 3658.
Daly Margaret 15 Waerford NA RC Empl. Mrs Blankendon, Latrobe St., £6, 6 mths. Married John Lehane 11 May 1853 St Francis' Church, Melbourne. By 1858 when her sister Catherine arrived buy the Sea Park MArgaret and John were at Vectis Station near Horsham. Margaret died 26 Jan 1911 at Nazareth House, Ballarat and was buried in Horsham. Elaine Brown, 6 Orchard Grove, Blackburn South 3130.
Daly Bridget/Winifred 17 Skilivin, Cork NA RC Winifred. Empl. Mrs Edward Roach, Ryrie St., Geelong, £7, 12 mths. Married James Smith, Geelong, 1852, 13 children born Geelong. She died January 1901.
Dancey Mary 16 NA NA CofE Empl. Mr Henderson's School, Russell St., Melbourne £7, 12 mths. Returned. I Hethington.
Daniel Mary 19 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Andrew Kowe, Little Bourke St., Melbourne £10 6 mths.
Delane Mary 16 Cork NA RC Empl. James Heffernan, Latrobe St. Melbourne £8, 12 mths. Returned.John Cain, Portland.
Delaney Judith 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Testerton, Darebin Creek, £8, 6mths.
Desmond Ellen 15 Drumanway, Cork NA RC Empl. William Wilmington, Flinders Lane, £7, 6mths. Married Henry Ghee in 1855.
Desmond Mary 16 Drumanway, Cork Francis & Margaret O'Brien RC Empl. Daniel Wright, Napier St., Collingwood, £8, 3mths. Married John Kelly (born Bristol, England, c. 1818) in St Mary's Church, Geelong, 4 Dec 1851. Honora Mahon(e)y (below) was a witness at Mary's wedding. The couple had 8 children and lived Ballareen, Creswick, Kingston, Springhill and Bloomfield. John died 8 April 1894 and Mary 1 Feb 1900. email sharoncurrie[at]optusnet.com.au
Doherty Mary 16 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Rachael Ackerman, Corio St., Geelong West, £10 6 mths. Married (1) Ray Salt at St Mary's Geelong, 8 Jan 1852, 1 child. Married (2) Samuel S Ranson, Ararat, 19 July 1859, 6 more children, husband a farmer on the Wimmera at Elmhurst. He left all to two sons after bequests totalling £500 to his other four children. Mary died 21 Dec 1913. Margaret A Murray, "Sunnyside", 195 Whites Rd., Mt Duneed 3216.
Donnovan/Donovan Ellen 16 Cork NA RC Donovan, Empl. Peter Conolly, Little Bourke St., Melbourne £6, 6 mths.
Donovan Eliza 19 Cork NA Rc Empl. William Joachim, Merri Creek, £10, 3 mths.
Donovan Margaret 14 Cork NA RC Empl. Mr Dempsey, Merri Creek, £8, 12mths. Margaret did washing for sailors who jumped ship to join the Victorian gold-rush. She married Leonard Maxwell in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 18 May 1854. Four babies were born to the couple on Pig Island on the Shoalhaven River between 1856 and 1860. Only two, Harriet and Leonard Watson survived. After moving to Sydney the couple bought property and lived at Mascot. Margaret died in 1891 aged 54 years and was buried at Rookwood. Lois Sabine, 14 Moore Rd., Springwood.
Donovan Mary 19 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. James Young, Heidelberg, £9, 6mths.
Donovan Catherine 17 Drumanway, Cork NA RC Empl. RA Kenny, Little Collins St., £8, 3 mths. Returned.
Dorney/Downey Julia/Judith 16 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Downey, Judith. Empl. Mrs Coombs, Marrabool, Geelong, £10, 12 mths.
Driscoll Ann 19 Cork NA RC Empl. Edmund Westly, Melbourne, £10,6mths.
Driscoll Bridget 15 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Readmitted 18 May on account of illness. Finally assigned to Margaret Brown, 'Steam Packet Hotel' (?) £10, 6mths. Possibly the sister of Mary Driscoll, below. Married Thomas McGrathon, 3 Feb 1851 at Geelong, 12 children (one of whom married her cousin,the son of Mary Driscoll and Thomas Glover). Bridget died in 1892 and is buried in Albury. Mrs D Lawson, 203 Hearn St., Colac, 3250.
Driscoll Johanna 16 Cork NA RC Empl. James McPherson, River Plenty, £9, 3mths.
Driscoll Judy 19 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Emily Doyle, Kildare, Geelong, £10 6 mths. Married Joseph Nash, Geelong, 1850. Later known as Julia. Several children born Geelong, then Ballarat. Joseph died Ballarat 21 Feb 1865; Julia died at Ballarat Hospital 4 May 1870.
Driscoll Mary 17 Swansea, Glamorgan NA RC Geelong. Readmitted to Depot on 17 May on account of bad sight; finally assigned to Mrs John Elkington of Clarence St., Ashby, £10, 6mths. Married Thomas Glover, A Millbank exile, Geelong, 3 Feb 1851, 11 children, husband a shoemaker, lived Little Scotland, Happy Valley and Linton, died 9 March 1916. Mrs D Lawson, 203 Hearn St., Colac 3250.
Dwiney(?) Mary 15 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Mrs Henderson, Russell St., £7, 12 mths.
Dwyer Bridget 19 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Mrs Mary King, Little Bourke St., Melbourne, £7, 3 mths.
Edwards Anne 16 Donegal NA RC Inren, Donegal. Empl. James Elsey, Brunswick St., £8, 1 yr. Born 7 July Drumfurie Parish, Fermanagh, married Robert McWilliam at St Peter's, Melbourne in 1854, 10 children. Helen Jean Whitelock, 27 Rivesdale Ave., Carrum 3197.
Foley Bridget 15 NA NA RC Geelong List Additional. Empl. Eliza Jenkins, Corio St., Geelong, £6, 1 yr. Returned; Jane M Fitzpatrick, Ashby, Geelong, £4, 12 mths.
Fanning Mary 17 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Dormick Fenny, Constable, Little Bourke St., £11, 6mths
Fanning Margaret 16 Kilkenny NA RC Geelong. Empl. Mrs Edwin Carroll, Market Square, £9,6mths. Returned to Geelong, re-assigned LA Hawkins, Surveyor, Eastern Hill, £7, 6mths.
Farrell Eliza 17 Tulla, Carlow NA RC Empl. James Blosse, Mt Aiken, £12, 6 mths. Tullow. Married George Gorey, Melbourne, 2 August 1850, husband a storekeeper, 3 or maybe 4 children by 1859, no further record.
Faulkener/Faulkner Rebecca 16 Sronorland, Donegal NA Presbyt. Faulkner. Empl. Eliza Webster, Little Scotland, Geelong, £8/10/-, 6 mths. Married John Hulls Challacombe 22 Dec 1859, Melbourne, family lived in Port Fairy. Rebecca died in Kyneton in 1905.
Fenan/Finnan Margaret 15 Cullodon, Sligo NA RC Finnan. Fenhan. Empl. Edwin Carroll, Market Square, Geelong, £9, 6mths.
Fitzgerald Ellen 18 Dungarvan, Waterford James &Ann Carey RC Daughter of James Fitzgerald and Ann Carey. Empl. Mrs Anne May, Malop St., Geelong, £8, 6mths. She married Henry Biggs or Applegate in Geelong in JUly 1851, 7 children; husband stabbed to death in 1864. She remarried 22 May 1868, John King, in Ballarat, on the same day and in the same church, the Primitive Methodist Church, as her daughter Elizabeth married Charles McGuinness. Her daughter Annie wrote a little book during the Second World War about her mother Ellen's hard life. See Barefoot, vol 2., pp.128-31. When Henry went 'on the bust', Ellen and Annie went along as well. They lived on the bank of the Lerderderg at the foot of Mt Wilson, in a hut made with paling sides and a bark roof and an earthen floor beaten down hard and covered with Kangaroo skins. Young Annie grew up God-fearing, hard-working and on a diet of goat's milk and eggs and senna tea. Ellen died in Healesville in 1897. Shirley Costello, 1 McHarry Court, Corio 3214; Helen Wagener, 120 Wagener's Road, Greenridge 2470.
Fitzgerald Ellen 17 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Allen, Saw Pit Bend, Geelong, £10, 1 yr. Married William Newey, Geelong, 3 Feb 1852, husband a goldnminer, c. 11 children, lived Raglan, Waterloo and Beaufort. She died a hotel worker, of malnutrition, 16 Jan 1881. Mrs Josie Andrews, 122 Irby Boulevard, Sisters Beach 7321.
Fitzgerald Alice 15/16 Cork NA RC City of Cork. 16. Empl. Dr Benett, Western District. Committed by order 4 September. Mrs Ludwick, Darebin Creek, £12, 3 mths. PROV VPRS 521 Melbourne gaol vol 1 no. 130 and no. 629.
Fitzpatrick Eliza 18 Kilkenny NA Rc Empl. Mr Baker, Great Bourke St., £9, 3 mths.
Flood Bridget 16 Capperquin, Waterford NA RC Empl. Edward Flood (reporter Melbourne Morning Herald), Spring St., £8, 6mths. Married Joseph Plummer, a widower, 11 July 1853, St Peter's Anglican Church, Melbourne, 6 children, 4 survived to adulthood. She died in 1884, aged 52, buried Melbourne General Cemetery. Claire B Palmer, 21 Ursa St., North Balwyn 3104.
Foley Bridget 15 Ballymahoney, Wicklow NA RC Empl. Mrs Jenkins, Corio St., £6, 1 yr. Returned.
Foley Mary 19 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Mrs R Neale, Geelong, £8, 6mths.
Foster Julia 16 Chingall, Wicklow NA RC Clonegall, Wicklow. Empl. Andrew Dunleavey, Melbourne £7, 12mths.
Freney Catherine 18 Newton BArry, Wexford NA RC Empl. Mrs E B Addis, Geelong, £11, 6 mths.
Gehan Margaret/Mary 15 Cork NA RC Mary. City of Cork. Empl. Mrs O'Donnell, Point Henry, Geelong, £8, 6mths.
Glavin Alice 15 Tallow, Waterford Patrick & Alice Lee RC Empl. Mrs Alex Forbes, Woady Yallock, £11, 12 mths. Baptised RC West St., Tallow, 25 July 1832, daughter of Patrick and Alice nee Lee, 53 days in Melbourne depot, 12 at Geelong, employed by Mrs Forbes, Woady Yallock. Married William R Baker 7 Oct 1851, Presbyterian, Colac, she registered as CofE, husband born in Kent, carpenter and handyman, 6 children. She died 3 Oct 1860, buried Colac. Win Baker, 17 Yorkshire Rd., Dapto 2530.
Gow/Gore Rose/Rosa 18 Kilkenny NA RC Gore, Rosa. Empl. A. McGregor, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 3mths. A Rose Ann Gore married Daniel McIntosh, 15 July 1852, family had a farm at Mansfield, 15 children born Mansfield where Rose Ann died 7 Jan 1894.
Green Mary 15 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Charles Willis, Little Scotland, Geelong, £8, 12 mths.
Green Mary 16 Ballintoher, Sligo NA RC Empl. Denis O'Leary, Great Bourke St., £6, 2 yrs., apprentice.
Greghan Mary 15 NA NA RC Geelong List Additional. Empl. Charles Willis, Little Scotland, £8, 1 yr. Mr Bartlett, Geelong, near Mr Willis, £8, 1 mth.
Hagarty Mary 17 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Eliza Burke, Corio St., Geelong, £8, 6 mths.
Haley Alicia 16 Ardmore, Waterord NA RC Empl. Samuel Jones, Bacchus Marsh, £7, 12mths.
Haley Sarah 18 Enniscorthy, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Duncan McKenzie, Geelong, £9.
Haley Winifred 16 Sligo NA RC Empl. Mrs Kiley, Ashby, £11, 1 yr.
Hall Amelia 16 Sligo NA CofE Empl. George Beech, Little Collins St., £8, 3 mths.
Hannan Margaret 16 Hacketstown, Carlow NA RC Empl. Bridget Sheraton, Yarra St., Geelong, £9, 6mths.
Hannan Eliza 18 Cork NA RC Empl. J P Dalton, Elizabeth St., £8, 12mths.
Harrigan/Horrigan Honora 18 Cork NA RC Horrigan. Empl. Mrs James Yeoman, Newtown, Geelong, £10, 1 yr. Married Andrew Jack, 17 Dec 1850, Geelong. No further record.
Harrington Margaret 14/13/16 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC 13. 16. Empl. Mrs Brasil, Fyans Ford, £6.
Hawkins Mary/Margaret 16 Capperquin, Waterford NA RC Margaret. Empl. Mrs Oldman, Yarra St., Geelong, £9, 6mths. Married James Egan, Geelong,1850, at least 2 children born in Geelong and Ballarat. Mary was repeatedly convicted in the Geelong courts for petty crime especially during the 1860s.
Helen Mary 17 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Geary (Levy), Malop St., Geelong, £8, 6mths.
Hicks Mary 18 Cork NA RC Empl. G F A Wilson, Bellarine St., Geelong, £11.
Hines/Hynes Judy 18 Kilkenny NA RC Hynes. Empl. Thomas Ryan, Litle Bourke St., £10, 6mths.
Hogan Honora 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Robert McDonald, Union St., Geelong, £9 6mths.
Holland Margaret 15 Waterford NA RC Empl. Mrs Ryan, Ashby, Geelong, £6, 12mths. Mr Jackson, Timber Merchant, Geelong, £8, 12 mths.
Holland Ellen 16 Capperquin, Waterford NA RC Empl. Mrs Elizabeth Reid, Geelong, £6, 12mths. Married Henry Coulson, Geelong, 1851, family settled in Marshall St., Geelong. Ellen died Geelong 23 Nov.1905.
Hurley Johanna 17 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. H Callaghan, Moonee Ponds, £8, 6mths.
Hurley Honora 17 Drumanway, Cork NA RC Empl. John Flannigan, Geelong, £9, 12 mths. Married John Flannigan, 22 Oct 1850, some children born Geelong and Steilglitz areas. Family may have settled in the Steilglitz-Anakie areas.
Irvin/Irwin Ann 14 Castletown, Tipperary NA Rc Irwin. Empl. M Seymour, Kilmore, £7, 12mths.
Johnstone Mary Ann 17 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Mrs Roseann Shaw, Collins St., £8
Keating Mary 16 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA Rc Empl. Mrs Porson, Market Square, Geelong, £8, 6 mths. Married John Glackin, 8 July 1852, Geelong, 4 children by 1861 in different gold-mining towns. John Glackin may have died in 1861. No further information.
Kelly Anne 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs Dalton, Yarra St., Geelong, £10, 6 mths. Married James Vial, Geelong, 17 March 1852. James was a miner in Ballarat in 1855, family continued to live in Ballarat. Anne buried Ballarat 22 Sept. 1905.
Kelly Bridget 14 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Moses Cavanagh Melbourne £10 6 mths.
McDermott Catherine 16 Donegal/Mayo NA RC Empl. George Lancaster, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, £6, 12 mths. Married Thomas Major, 1853, at least 8 children mostly born at Carisbrook. Bridget died in 1913.
Kelly Mary 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Mrs Carman, Corio St., Geelong, £10, 12 mths.
Kieman/Kiernan Mary A 19 Dundalk, Louth NA RC Empl. Mrs Eliza Sweetman, Marrabool St., near Bridge Inn, Geelong, £9, 6 mths.
Lawless Mary 15 Lismore, Waterford NA RC Empl. Roland Hill, W Creek, sawyer, £7, 3 mths. Married Benjamin Leech (b. Holt, Norfolk, England) Melbourne, 29 Oct 1852, settled Mt Blackwood/Malmsbury area, 10 children, two of whom died in infancy. Benjamin died 1900, Mary in 1906, in South Melbourne. Wendy M Fensom, 152 Beach Rd., Parkdale 3195.
Leary Jane 18/16 Cork NA RC born Skibbereen. 16. Empl. Mrs Rice, Kildare, Geelong, £8, 6 mths. Married Thomas Constable alias Michael Hart, Geelong, 5 April 1852, 9 children, lived Geelong, Ballarat, died 9 August 1914.
Leary Ellen 18 Cork NA RC Abbey Stanley, Cork. Empl. Mrs Fitzgibbon, Waurn Ponds, Geelong, £8. Married Walter Riley, Geelong, 12 Nov 1850, at least 5 children born Geelong, Ballarat and Bungaree by 1865. Family may have had a farm at Bungaree in the 1860s.
Leonard Mary 17 Cork NA RC Empl.James Connell, Collingwood, £7, 6 mths.
Leonard Anne 19 Cork NA RC Empl. Stephen Lanigan, Collins St., Melbourne £8, 3mths.
Leonard Ellen 15 Clogher, Tipperary NA RC Cloghan(?), Tipperary. Empl. Mr Turpin, Marrabool St., Geelong, £8.
Lodge Mary 18 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Donald McKercher, Moonee Ponds, £10, 5 mths.
Loftus Margaret 18 Sligo NA Rc Empl. Mr Byrne, Latrobe St., £8, 3 mths.
Londrigan/Landrigan Bridget 16 Ballyhoolin, Tipperaryl NA RC Landrigan. Empl. Mrs Delane, Ashby, Geelong, £6/10/-.
Looney/Looing/Lowey Mary 18 Capperquin, Waterford Na RC Lowey(?). Empl. Mrs Mary Roycroft, Moonee Ponds, £10, 3 mths.
Loughlin/Laughlin Mary 16 Sligo NA RC Laughlin. Empl. Mrs Perrin, Yarra St., Geelong, £9, 3mths. Married Ambrose Jones in Geelong, 7 Oct. 1852, c. 13 children. died Ballarat East, 4 May 1910. Marris Lucas, PO Box 482, Echuca 3564.
McAvoy Mary 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Drumanway, Cork. Empl. Mrs M Griffiths, Flinders St., Melbourne, £7, 6mths.
McCann Sarah/Mary 14 Portadown, Armagh NA RC Mary. Empl. Mrs John Shaw, Bellarine St., Geelong, £8, 6mths. Married Martin Hickey, Heidelberg, 7 children, husband a carrier, blacksmith and farmer, lived Croxton, died 3 June 1884, buried Hamilton. Her estate valued at £111. She accumulated property in her own right by carrying on business in Hamilton as a boarding house keeper 1874-84. William Hickey, Unit 1, 39 Second St., Black Rock 3193.
McCarthy Margaret 17 Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Marsden, Collingwood, £9, 3 mths.
McCarthy Ellen/Hannah 18 Cork NA Rc Hannah. Empl. James Gillott, Latrobe St., Melbourne, £9, 3mths.
McCarthy Judy 18 Drumanway, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs McFarlane, Point Henry, Hemsley, Geelong, £11. F
McCarty Mary 16 Cork NA RC Empl. John Smith, Waurn Ponds. Reassigned. Beatrice Chalmers, Newtown, Manifold's Winery, £9, 6mths.
McCaull Ellen 16 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. Mrs Baildon, Geelong, £8.
McColl/McCall Johanna 18 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC McCall. Empl. Mr B Kampf, Lonsdale St., £8, 3 mths.
McConnell Anne 19 Dundalk, Louth NA RC Empl. Edward Rowe, King St., Melbourne, £9, 3mths.
McDade Catherine 17 Letterkenney, Donegal NA RC Empl. A Lanagan, Great Collins St., £8, 3mths.
McDonnell Mary 16 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mrs Elizabeth Kilburn, Ashby, Geelong, £9, 2mths.
McGarvey/McGravey Mary 18 Sligo NA RC McGravey. Empl. Patrick McGrath (McGraugh), Lonsdale St., £8/10/-, 6 mths.
McGarvan/McGowan/McGorvan Mary 15 Grange, Sligo NA RC McGowan. McGorvan. Empl. John Grimshaw, Barrabool Hills, £8, 12mths.
McGovern Mary 18 Donegal NA RC Empl. Mr P Cadden, Post Office,Melbourne, £8, 12mths.
McGrath Ann 16 Castletown, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Joseph Brown, Kilmore, £7, 12 mths.
McGinty/McGilty Ann 17 Donegal NA RC McGilty. Empl. Mrs Perrin, Yarra St., Geelong, £9, 3 mths.
McInnerney MAry 19 Castletown, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Hurley, Marrabool St., Geelong, £11.
McKern Mary 16/15 Clogher, Donegal NA RC 15. Gone.
McKey Bridget 16 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mrs O'Neil, Corio St., Geelong, £9.
McLean Mary Ann 19 Cork NA RC Empl. Andy Ryan, Lonsdale St., £8, 3mths.
McNamara Bridget 16 Kilcar, Tipperary NA RC Empl. J McGlinn, Collins St., £6, 6mths.
McNamara Mary 16 Nanagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mrs Eliza Vyvyan, Ryrie St., Geelong, £8, 12 mths.
McQuage/McQuade Eliza 15 Dundalk, Louth NA Rc McQuade. Empl.Mrs Samuel Heard, Barrabool Hills, Geelong, £8 1 yr.
McReady Ann 16/15 Inver, Donegal NA RC 15. Empl. Frederick Carman, Little Malop St., Geelong, £8, 12 mths.
Maher Mary 18 Enniscorthy, wexford NA RC Empl. J Thomson, Werribee River, 35 miles from Geelong, £10, 3mths.
Mahon Honora 16 Freshfield, Kilkenny NA Rc Empl. J C A Kugens, Flinders St., Melbourne £8, 6 mths.
Mahoney Mary 16 Cork NA RC Drumanway, Cork. Empl. Mrs Heather Hancock, Bellarine St., Geelong, £10, 6mths. Married Michael Keane, Geelong, 20 April 1851. No further information.
Mahony/Mahoney Honora 17 Cork NA RC Mahoney. Drumanway, Cork. Empl. Anthony Mangan, Fyans Ford, £7, 1 yr.
Malarkey/Mararkey Alice 15 Donegal NA RC Mararkey. Empl. Mrs James Price, Irishtown, Geelong, £6, 12 mths., apprentice. Born Stranorlar, married James Hose, Geelong, 21 Oct 1852, 11 children born mostly at Wallington near Geelong. James died 1890, Alice at Wallington 8 Dec 1922.
Malorie/Malone Mary A 16 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Malone. Empl. William Johnstone, Little Collins St., £7, 12 mths.
Maloney Ellen 16 Tipperary John &Judith Roche RC Nenagh, Tipperary. Daughter of John Maloney and Judith Roche. Empl. James Muston, tailor, Great Bourke St., £5, 3 mths. Married Michael Cunneen at Sandhurst 21 May 1856, 10 children, lived Long Gully and Runnymede (Bendigo area) died of a uterine haemorrhage in February 1873, buried Runnymede. See the Cunneen Family History 1851-1988 by Margaret O'Callaghan, 1988 ISBN 0 7316 4343 7, and The Cunneen Family of LOng Gully and Runnymede Victoria by D Black and J Green, 1998, ISBN 0 9585927 0 5. Dorothy P Black, 14 Esperance St., Red Hill ACT 2603.
Manogue/Monogue/Mangue Margaret 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Monogue. Mangue. Empl. Mrs Cath Carr, Little Bourke St., £7, 6 mths.
Mellaney Mary 18 Dungarvan, Waterford NA Rc Empl. John Donovan, Fitzroy St., Melbourne £10, 3mths.
Miller/Muller Jane 18 Dundalk, Louth NA RC Muller. Empl. Michael Byrne, View Lake, Fiery Creek, Geelong, £9, 12mths.
Minahan/Minihan Eliza 18 Cork NA RC Minihan. Drumanway, Cork. Empl. Mrs Bridget Barrow, Lonsdale St., Melbourne £8, 5mths.
Minnihan Ellen 17 Cork NA Rc Drumanway, Cork. Empl. Mrs Devine, Little Bourke St., Melbourne, £8, 6mths.
Minnahan Mary 17 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. John Hopkins, Mercer Vale, £8, 6mths. Convicted many times (by 1899 32 previous convictions) for a variety of misdemeanours (assault, vagrancy, being idle and disorderly, soliciting) and under a variety of aliases (Brown, Sorento, Freck, Coutts et al.) and sent to Melbourne Gaol. She had 8 children, the first by Henry Wallace, the next 4 by Charles Joseph Pruen, the last to Charles J Brown (the same man?). By 1867 only one child, David William Minahan, had survived. No record of her death as yet. Kathleen Newman, 1/2 Williamson Rd., Mont Albert North 3129.
Moloney/Maloney Mary 15 Kilmastilla, Clare NA RC Maloney. Empl. William Patterson, Moonee Ponds, £8 1 yr. Married Joseph Limon, Melbourne, 1862, family lived in Fitzroy. Joseph died 1976, no further info.
Mouillis/McNabe Mary 15 Inver, Donegal NA RC Manillis. McNelis. Empl. Mrs Annabelle Melville, Quarries, Geelong, £9, 1 yr. Returned and reassigned to Mrs Towle, Yarra St. As Mary Manaillis married William Henry Kenny, Geelong, 9 Jan 1852. Ann McReady (see above) was a witness to the wedding. No further information.
Mooney Judy 18 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Holmes, Batesford, Geelong, £10.
Moore Bridget 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. John Evans, Little Bourke St., £7, 3mths.
Morony/Marony Ann 18 Ballyna, Tipperary NA RC Maroney. Empl.Mrs Roycroft, Little Collins St., £10, 6mths. As Marony married Gabriel Church, Benalla 8 Dec 1850, c. 12 children, girls brought up Catholic, the boys Anglican. Husband a carrier, hotelier and farmer, lived Benalla, died of typhoid fever 26 March 1898; her estate was valued at £801.
Mulfohey/Malfohey/Mulfahey Mary 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Malfohey/Mulfahey/Fahey. Empl. Mr Henry, Little Collins St., £8, 3mths. Reassigned. Married Thomas Carr, Parkhurst exile 27 Nov 1851, St Francis RC, Melbourne, 11 children, lived various locations in Victoria until c. 1886, before coming to Sydney. Mary died at Newtown 17 May 1898 and is buried in the RC section Rookwood. Mrs Joyce McDonell, 21 Robertson St., Coniston 2500.
Mullaney Bridget 16/15 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Mellaney. 15. Empl. Michael Creed, Merri Creek, £6, 12 mths.
Mullins Mary 16 Coolany, Sligo NA RC Empl. Peter Martin, Great Collins St., £8, 3 mths.
Murphy Bridget 19 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Hugh Bourke, Dandenong, £10, 12 mths.
Murphy Margaret 18 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Ball, Newtown, Geelong, £10, 12 mths. Returned, reassiged to Patrick Lynch, Fyans Ford, Geelong, £8/10/-, 12 mths.
Murphy Hannah 18 Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Mary Hughes, Collingwood, £8, 3mths.
Murphy Ann 17 Cork NA RC Empl. James Edwards, Little Bourke St., £10 6 mths.
Murphy Bridget 17 Enniscorthy, Wexford NA RC Empl. James Barry, Flinders Lane, £8, 6mths. Reassigned J Campbell, Goulbourn River, £12, 6mths. Married James Walker at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1 Jan 1852 c 7 children, lived Geelong, Ballarat and Linton, died 17 June 1865. Mrs Margaret Rixon, 10 Dowling St., Wonthaggi 3995. Mrs Elaine Cambell, Suite 128, Albert Ave., Broadbeach 4218. Gordon Walker, PO Box 91. Cremorne Junction 2090.
Murphy Mary 15 Wicklow NA RC Empl. Benjamin Hinchcliff, Collingwood, £5, 2yrs, apprentice.
Navin Nora 16 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Narin (?). Honora. Empl. Mrs Scott, Fairfield, Geelong, £10, 12mths.
Neale Mary 18 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Ignatius Keogh, Swanston St., Melbourne, £9, 5mths.
Nolan Biddy 19 Wexford NA RC Empl. Dr Greeves, Yarra St., Geelong, £12, 12mths.
Nolan Jane 16 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Robert Jenkins, Fourpost(?), Geelong, £8, 12 mths. Married John Gleeson, Geelong, 15 Sept 1850. Eliza Connolly, sub matron on the Eliza Caroline, was a witness at the wedding.
O'Brien Bridget 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Arthur Hamilton, Melbourne, £9, 12mths.
O'Brien Margaret 15 Tipperary NA RC Nenagh, Tipperary. Empl. Arthur Hamilton, Melbourne, £7, 2yrs., apprentice.
O'Brien Mary 13/15 Tipperary NA RC 15. Empl. John Donaldson, Collingwood, £6, 2 yrs., apprentice.
O'Brien Johanna 17 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Empl. Mrs Mary Wyatt, Roadknight's Marsh, Geelong, £9, 6mths.
O'Hara Ellen 16 Sligo NA RC Empl. David Perrillo, Moonee Ponds, £7, 6mths.
O'Meara Margaret 15 Tipperary NA RC William Leahy, Richmond, £5, 2yrs. Apprentice, see Argus 11 July 1850, "Another Orphan Immigrant": "she did not think her life was safe in such a house, where the master and mistress were frequently drunk and continually fighting and squabbling".
O'Meara Mary 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Margaret Kennedy, Stephen St., Melbourne, £6, 12mths.
Orr Margaret 19 Calooney, Sligo NA CofE Empl. John Chivins, Deep Creek, £10, 3mths.
Owens/Ewens Mary Ann 17 Stranorland, Donegal NA CofE Owens. Empl. Patrick Hayes, Little Collins St., £8, 6mths.
Price Margaret 16 Wicklowk NA CofE Empl. John Southill, Melbourne, 3mths.
Pye Eliza 15 Sligo NA CofE Empl. Alfred Hurlstone, River Plenty, £8, 12mths.
Quail Sarah 18 Wicklow NA CofE Carnow, Wicklow. Empl. George McMaster, Spring St., Melbourne, £8, 6mths.
Quinahan/Keohane Julia 16 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Kearney. Quinahan, Judy. Empl. Bridget Andrews, Spring St., Melbourne, £7, 6 mths.
Quinlan Margaret 15 Cork NA RC Empl. Patrick Dooley (Donely), Sergeant of Police, Williamstown, £6 mths.
Redman Mary 17 Wicklow NA CofE Empl. James Walker, Lonsdale St., £9, 6mths.
Reed Eliza 17 Coolmana, wicklow Na RC Empl. C H Sayers, Richmond, £7, 3 mths.
Rivers Mary 18 Waterford NA RC Empl. Mrs Priscilla Mitchell, Melbourne, £8, 3mths., one of the matrons.
Rochford Eliza 18 Cork NA RC Empl. Joseph Walters, Great Bourke St., Melbourne, £10, 16mths.
Rooney Catherine 16 Sligo NA RC Empl. John Green, Little Bourke St., £7, 3mths. 25 days in depot. Married James Dowling 17 August 1852, a farmer of Colac, 9 children. She died 10 Nov 1904.
Ryan Margaret 17 Nenagh, Tipperary NA RC Empl. Margaret McNamara, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 6mths.
Scott Mary 18 Cork NA CofE Empl. James McLaren, Elizabeth St., £7, 3mths.
Seymour Jane 19 Cork NA CofE Empl. James Mundell, Spring St., £10, 3 mths.
Skelly Mary Anne 17 Dundalk, Louth NA CofE Empl. David Finn, Kilmore, £9, 6mths.
Slattery Mary 18 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Thomas Butler, Gippsland, £12, 12mths. Mary Theresa. Married William Weeks, Melbourne, 15 April 1851, 11 children, husband a confectioner, dealer and labourer, lived Sydney and East Kempsey, died 23 July 1890, buried Rookwood.
Slack or Stack Mary 18 Galway, Kilkenny NA RC Empl. Mrs Elizabeth Mary, Moorrabool St., Geelong, £8, 12 mths.
Stoke(s) Margaret 17 Talla, Waterford NA RC Stokes. McKern. Empl. Charles Beaton, Union St.,Geelong, £9, 6mths.
Sullivan Eliza 18 Kilkenny NA RC Empl. William Morrissey, Little Lonsdale St., £9, 3mths. Married Benjamin McGregor (b. Wick, Scotland) St Francis's Church, Melbourne, 19 May 1851, 8 children, lived Richmond, Sandhurst, Whitelhills, Epsom and Kangaroo Flat. Eliza's son Alexander said at an enquiry into her death that ever since he could remember his mother was addicted to drink. She died at Kangaroo Flat 23 Dec 1893, a couple of years before Benjamin. Margaret Kyabram & Claire Horsfall, 19 Watson St., Echuca 3564.
Sullivan Margaret 18 Kilkenny NA RC Empl.William Devereaux, Elizabeth Street.
Sullivan Ellen 16 Skibbereen, Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs I Robinson Bell, Corio St., Geelong, £9, 6 mths.
Tobin Margaret 16 Lismore, Waterford NA RC Empl. George White (Weight), Heidelberg, £7, 6mths.
Toole Bridget 15 Wicklow NA RC Empl. Mary Carroll, Yarra St., Geelong, £8, 12mths. Readmitted and reassigned to Michael Bourke, Indented Head, £6, 12 mths.
Wade Bridget 18 Carrick on Suir,Tipperary NA RC Empl. Mr Henry Crossen, Great Bourke St., £8, 3 mths. Married James Wade, family settled in Maryborough. Bridget died Maryborough, 1912.
Wallace Catherine 16 Cork NA RC Empl. Mrs Cox, Little Lonsdale St., £8, 3 mths. Married William Reeves, January 1853, large family,several children born in the Castlemaine area. Catherine died Eaglehawk 1911.
Ward Jane 17 Newton Bary, Wicklow NA RC Empl. Alfred Hopkins, Ryrie St., Geelong, £10.
Ward Catherine 16 Donegal NA RC Ballynaffy, Donegal. Empl. Mrs Ann Downing, Ashby, Geelong, £7, 1 yr.
Waxstead Mary 16 Kilkenny NA RC Waxted. Empl. Mrs Julia Brown, Richmond, £6, 12mths.
Welsh Judith 17 Newton Bary, Wicklow NA RC Empl. William Williams, Great Bourke St., £9, 3mths. Returned Mr Davison, (?) St., Geelong, £8, 3 mths.
Welsh Mary Ann 15 Carrick on Suir, Tipperary NA RC Marianne Walsh. Empl. Mrs Honora Bent, Moorabool St., Geelong, £6, 12mths. Reassigned, Catherine Koope, Market Square.
Wheelan Mary 16 Kilkenny NA RC Whelan. Empl. Mrs Dunlop, Malop St., Geelong, pound;7/10/-. Readmitted, assigned to Francis McGill, Mt Pleasant St., £8, 10mths.
Wheelan Ann 17 Dungarvan, Waterford NA Rc Whelan. Empl. Dr Maxwell, Melbourne.
Wheelan Honora 15 Dungarvan, Waterford NA RC Whelan. Empl. Miss Mary Richardson, Ryrie St., Geelong, £8, 12mths.
Whittaker Margaret 16 Wexford Na RC Blacknock, Wexford. Empl. Mrs Edward Langhorne, Barwon River, Breakwater, £9, 6mths.
Whittaker Bridget 16 Wexford NA RC Empl. Mrs Winifred Connor, Fyans Ford, Geelong, £8, 3 mths.

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