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Participant Info

First Name

Eleanor

Surname

Lawn

Native Place

Donegal

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Edward Lawn & Norah Cunningham

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write; sister of Sarah & Alice also on Lady Kennaway; initially empl. by Mrs Sheerman, Collingwood, £9, 6 months; apparently all three sisters & their husbands pooled their resources heading for the gold-fields; married James Lynch in Melbourne 17 Feb 1850, husband a miner at Cochrans, Landsborough; 11 children by 16 Aug 1867; died 25 Dec 1913, aged 86, buried with her late husband in RC section Landsborough Cemetery [Barefoot & Pregnant? Vol 1]

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