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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Kean

Native Place

Kilchrist [Kilchreest], Clare

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Charles & Bridget (mother in Kilchrist)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Gundagai Depot; empl. by SG Watson at Tumut, £8, 1 year; married at Tumut 1851 to Michael Fetherston, both living at Waliva, Tarcutta; 10 children (7 boys, 3 girls). Michael was the brother of Luke who married orphan, Maria McDermot per Lady Peel. First child born Bendigo where they tried luck at mining; moved to Bankstown, Sydney, farmed land later acquired by railways & were very involved dairy & milk industry; Featherstone Street in Blacktown; Michael died 1876, buried St Felix Church cemetery, Bankstown; Catherine married 2) Michael Fahey in 1884 at Liverpool; she died 1908; headstone shows her as Catherine Fetherston.

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