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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Lordon [Lordan]

Native Place

Bandon, Cork

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Jeremiah & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in colony; Ellen bap.10 Sep 1834 at Enniskeane, dau of Jeremiah Lordon & Nell/Ellen Mahony (of Fanlobus) who married in Dunmanway on 19 Jan 1828; also bap. of a Mary Lordon on 10 June 1830 with parents Jerry Lordon & Nellie Mahony; apparently married William Heffernan -marriage not located; 10 children (9 sons & 1 daughter who drowned in a well on Christmas Day 1857); lived Tenterfield; died 1886. William & Ellen sponsored Bridget Lordan & William’s 2 brothers, James & Michael Heffernan.

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