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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Doody (Doodey)

Native Place

Cahir, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Michael & Bridget (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; baptised Cahir Parish, 13 Dec 1833, daughter of Michael Doody & Bridget Wall; empl Mrs HV Dunn, Kent St, Sydney £7-8, 2 years; orphan wages & 1858-9 Report on Irish Female Immigrants, Appendix No.151, 22 Nov 1850 indentures with Mrs Hannah V Dunn cancelled for neglect of duty & absence without leave, wages to be kept from her until well behaved, WPO, paid 28 Nov 1850; married 1) John Welfare 1851 Summer Hill, near Orange; 10 children; moved to Armidale in 1860s, husband died 1870; married 2) Andrew Stevens 1872; 4 children; she died Armidale 1915.

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