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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Meagher (Maher)

Native Place

Murbarnin [Mobarnan], Tipperary

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

James & Margaret (both living at Morabnan)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: farm servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony, Cashel Union, Maher' crossed out. Assistant to school master (another Ellen Maher also on John Knox); bap 22 Dec 1829 at St Marys RC Killenaule, Tipperary; married John CH [Henry] Bachfeld in 1854 at St James CofE, Sydney as Maher; 8 children; sponsored siblings, Bridget & Thomas, per 'Commodore Perry' 1856 & another sister Mary per Palmyra 1859; family to Tenterfield in 1859, ran Royal Hotel; Ellen died Tenterfield 1907.

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