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Participant Info

First Name

Honora

Surname

Jones

Native Place

Listowel, Kerry

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; Im. Cor. 49/784 Goulburn; empl. Robert Pitt Jenkins JP, Bangus near Gundagai, ₤8, 1 year; Register 2 No.447 8 Jun 1849 indentures with RP Jenkins Gundagai; married Henry Thomas Thatcher, Gundagai 25 Oct 1851; she was pregnant when she drowned with seven members of the Thatcher family including her mother-in-law, Caroline Amelia, her sister-in-law and five children, in flood on 25 Jun 1852. Thomas’ younger brother, nine year old Charles Edward, was found clinging to a tree in the floodwater two days later. Two other Thomas Arbuthnot girls, Anne Farrell & Mary Hickey, also drowned.

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