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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Moriarty

Native Place

Dingle, Kerry

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Maurice & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony, sister Mary also TA; b.Dingle 17 Mar 1831, mother nee Cahalane; Moreton Bay on'Tamar'; empl house servant by John Bruce, North Brisbane, £8, 1 year; indentures cancelled 22 Feb 1851; married ex-convict Thomas J Elliott in Brisbane, c.1853, 13 children; Catherine died 1909 after 21 years of widowhood, buried Ipswich; photo in Barefoot & Pregnant, Vol 2 pp.26, 28.

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