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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Galvin

Native Place

Dingle, Kerry

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

John & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in colony; to Yass with Surgeon Strutt; empl. as house servant by Mr John Cameron Welman (Commissioner of Crown Lands) at 'Barwang', Harden at ₤8 12 months; married William Castles 1851 at Barwang; 7 children; Ellen died aged 26 at Binalong 1859 in childbirth of son Thomas Castles who died 2 days later; buried Galong without a priest, minister or headstone; husband drowned when his horse plunged off a bridge at Binalong in 1862

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