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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen Jane [Helen]

Surname

McCartney [McCarty]

Native Place

Belfast

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

George & Jane (mother living in Belfast)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: house servant, read & write, relations in colony: aunt Mary Smith; to Moreton Bay. Empl. Dr Peterson, South Brisbane, £14, 3 months; married Daniel Jounquay in Brisbane, in Nov 1849; the family part of Queensland bullockies' subculture whose families travelled with them; 9 children; lived Brisbane, Ipswich, Jimbour & Roma. Helen left her husband around 1878; died 1906; buried at Cunnamulla.

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