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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Gilfoyle (Guilfoyle, Kilfoil)

Native Place

Rosscrea [Roscrea], Tipperary

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

Matthew [from Victorian documents]

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

born 1829-30; shipping: house servant, reads & writes. sister, Susan Guilfoyle also on Pemberton; disposal VRPS 7310 Book 4B: 19, RC, not in service, to Joseph Harper, 'The Springs' [now Tuillamarine], £10, 3 months from 18 Jun 1849 and Disposal List (VPRS 14/P0000/0006), arrived at Immigration Depot 26 May 1849, left 18 Jun 1849, engaged by Thomas Hunt of Lonsdale St, Melbourne for 3 months at £10; married John Smith [Smyth] at Portland, Victoria in Jul 1849; her sister, Susan, was baptisimal sponsor to her first two children, Mary & Catherine; Catherine died 20 Feb 1892 in Melbourne Hospital, her home was Buckhurst St, South Melbourne; husband John Smith died 9 Apr 1909; both buried Melbourne General cemetery, no headstone.

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