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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Haggerty

Native Place

Boyle, Roscommon

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Andrew & Sarah (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony, sister Anne also on Digby; Register 2 No 5, 5 Jan 1850 Moreton Bay; married John Ford 1 Apr 1850 at Ipswich; John was a convict per Eden 1840 who had aliases John Barry & Patrick Liston; possibly 12 children & 6 survived her; she & John spent most of their married life in largely successful agricultural and hotel enterprises at Rockton, a rural area 20 kms from Ipswich; she died Sep 1914 at her daughter's home in the Ipswich district, where she had lived all her life.

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