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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen (Helen)

Surname

Dowey (Downey, Dowie, Doway)

Native Place

Ballycoghan [Ballyloughan], Armagh

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Henry & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: farm servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Armagh PLU BG2/G/2 (2598) Union at large, thinly clothed, destitute; empl Mr J Allen, Union Place, £10, 12 months; dau, Sarah Jane born 1850 to Thomas Clune, Parramatta publican; Ellen went to Melbourne; married 1) Thomas Bendall in 1851, 2 sons; she left Bendall & her 2 sons for relationship with Henry (Harris) Green (Greenland)-2 children; son with John Webster was born 1859; married 2) George Pullman in 1863; Ellen died 1904, in Victoria; Ellen’s sister, Essy (Esther) Dowey arrived as immigrant on Plantegenet 1857 to Sydney, from ‘Ballybray’ [Ballybreagh], Armagh.

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