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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Rourke

Native Place

Ballinakill, Clare

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Malachi & Catherine (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping nursemaid, cannot read or write, relation in colony: a sister, Catherine Rourke; Empl. W. Steadman, Cumberland St., Sydney, ₤8, 1 year; Register 2 No. 1561 2 Dec 1850 request permission for her marriage to William Steadman who she married at St Marys RC 3 Dec 1850 witnessed by her sister Cathiine Rourke, already in the colony.

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