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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Moran

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

John & Ann (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. NAI BG/79/G/3 No.5512 South City Dublin, servant entered workhouse 22 Nov 1847, left 2 Dec 1848. Imm Cor 49/250 Goulburn; married Richard Fitzpatrick in 1852, 2 ch, he died less than 3 years after their marriage; Catherine remarried William Albone, ex-convict whose wife in England had also remarried; they lived Little River (Mongarlowe), Nimby Namble, Spring Creek, the Shoalhaven River & Braidwood; at least 3 children; William died Braidwood 4 Feb 1873 of anthrax & exhaustion, buried Braidwood; after William died, Catherine apparently left her children, worked in kitchen at convent in Manly, Sydney; at least 2 children sent to orphanage; she died 30 Aug 1901 St Vincent’s hospital-grand daughter, Kay McQueen, informant & details of Catherine’s children show she had kept in contact; buried RC Rookwood.

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