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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Kenrick

Native Place

Castlemann [Castlemaine], Limerick

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

John & Johanna (mother living in Castlemann)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Ellen was probably the witness to the marriage of workhouse orphan girl Ellen Lane at St Marys RC Sydney in 1851; she married 1) Edward Hennessy at St Marys RC on 25 Mar 1856; 6 children; Edward died 17 May 1868 in Sydney of paralysis, noted in 'The Sydney Mail' newspaper on 17 May 1868 as 'late of Gulph Goldfields, Nerringundah'; she married 2) Patrick Chifley [grandfather of Prime Minister Ben Chifley and Ellen was his third wife]; no children with Chifley; she died at Limekilns in Sep 1888; buried RC Wattle Flat; Patrick Chifley died 6 Jan 1899

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