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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Taniham (Tannian)

Native Place

Galway

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Father in the colony. Mother's name Byrnes.

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads; empl. Mr Murphy, policeman, Little Bourke St. Melbourne, £8, 12 months, pencil annotation 'change for her father'; married Englishman, John Woods, 14 years her senior, at St Peter's Melbourne, 10 May 1855; 2 children (one survived to adulthood); lived Melbourne, Maryborough & Creswick Creek; husband died 1862 after a leg was amputated.

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