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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Tobin

Native Place

Clonmel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John Tobin & Elizabeth Brien

Religion

Ship Name

Elgin (Adelaide 12 Sep 1849)

Details

Born in 1833, Ellen one of 6 children of John Tobin & Elizabeth Brien of south Tipperary. John died in Dublin in 1837 aged 37; his wife & children remained in Tipperary. Ellen, aged 16, was one of 190 Orphan girls (15 from Clonmel), on the Elgin. She mar 1) James Fahy 1850; James Fahy & his sister Ann arrived SA 7 Dec 1840 on ‘Birman’, from Greenock via Cork. Sometime between Ellen’s marriage in Jun 1850 & Dec 1854, James Fahy died; by 1854 she was in Sydney. Mar 2) Henry Koch, 1854. Koch family prominent in Dalby, later Cooktown. Ellen Koch nee Tobin died 1878 aged 43 at Smithfield of 'jungle fever', contracted 4 days before.

Story

Tobin, Ellen per Elgin