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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Leydon [Laiden, Lydon]

Native Place

Ennistymon, Clare

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, read & write, no relatives in colony. Empl as house servant by W. Coombe, Brisbane, £7-8, 2 years; Im.Cor. 50/344 Moreton Bay; married 1) Thomas Stanley at Ipswich 20 Aug 1850, husband a brickmaker, lived Ipswich; 7 children [note in Barefoot & Pregnant that 'last one illegitimate born 1865']; married 2) Thomas Heffernan on 11 Feb 1886; her death not located; his estate valued at £400 in 1863.

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