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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Brien (Bryan)

Native Place

Cashel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Lawrence & Peggy (mother living at Cashel)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; sister Bridget also on Lady Peel; empl. R Chorley, Wooloomooloo; £7, 5 yrs. Register 1 No.698 indentures cancelled, ill health. Register 2 No 590, 3 May 1850, WPO report on her case; no 944 19 Jul 1850 Alex Burnett reports satisfactorily on her conduct; orphan wages - payment to husband Angelo Viney, 6 Dec 1851 who she had married the previous month; 9 children; Angelo was licencee of several cafes and hotels in Sydney; her mother arrived per Peter Maxwell 1858 as Margaret Duggan; Angelo died Oct 1906; Catherine had entered Parramatta asylum in 1903 and died there in Aug 1909 aged 92; both buried RC Rookwood

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