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First Name

Catherine

Surname

Toland

Native Place

Donegal [Hamilton?=Rathmelton]

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

James Toland & Elizabeth McDermott

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads; her sister Sarah also on board; empl. by Catherine Roache, Bourke St., Melbourne £6, 2 years; married labourer, Michael Murphy, in Melbourne 2 Jan 1850; lived Collingwood, Taradale & Ararat; 11 children (only 3 survived to adulthood, 4 children burnt to death in a shepherd's hut at Gledfield Station, Ross Bridge in 1863 & buried on a rise overlooking the bank of the Hopkins River). Catherine died 20 Nov 1899; buried Kerang; a devout Catholic, she said she had suffered her purgatory on earth & would surely go straight to heaven; her husband, a Beijeroop farmer, left an estate of £225 in 1882. Catherine and her sister Sarah remained close all their lives. See Trevor McClaughlin Blog 9. Catherine left all her estate which included an allotment at Kerang to her only surviving child, Ellen Gleeson nee Murphy

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