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Details: Shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in the colony; orphan wages 16 Feb 1852 empl Mr E Barry; married Nicholas Tobin Feb 1853 at RC Bathurst; 8 children born 1853-66, 6 died in infancy before 1867, one of the highest rates of infant mortality found among the orphans. Causes of death were recorded as diarrhoea, dysentery, marasmus, two cases of 'inanition' [exhaustion from lack of food or water] and one baby was premature. It can be safely concluded that the children were suffering from the effects of starvation. Possible causes include the illness or malnourishment of either or both parents, unhygienic living conditions and low income. Even by standards of the day, this is an extreme case'. Nicholas Tobin died of paralysis in the Liverpool Asylum Sydney in June 1873 aged 60. Ann Tobin died at the home of her daughter, Anne, in Kensington, South Australia in 1888. The [Sydney] 'Freeman's Journal', reported the death with the end line 'fortified with all the rites of holy Church'.