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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Laughlin [O'Laughlan]

Native Place

Dungarvan, Waterford

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Andrew O'Laughlan & Mary Kelly

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads; empl. Thomas Graham, Latrobe St. Melbourne, £8, 12 months; married 1) James Kirby, Melbourne, 1851, settled Talbot, husband fell off the back of a dray in 1864 leaving Catherine with 7 children; married 2) George Lawson on his death bed in Clunes Hospital in 1883 after having 6 more children with him; she died 1914, buried Talbot.

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