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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Beirne

Native Place

Kilmore, Roscommon

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Michael & Mary (father at Cluneshannon, Roscommon)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in colony; born/bap 25 Jul 1828 Aughrim, Ros, dau of Michael Beirne & Mary Clappy/Claffy; sponsers John Claffy & Brigid Gaffy [Clappy given as mother's name on death cert]; empl. MW Lewis, Wooloomooloo, £10, 1 year; SRNSW, Register & applications for orphans, Reg. 2 No.944 Alex Burnett, Sydney, reported satisfactorily on her conduct;married William Johnson (b.Germany c1820) in 1851 Sydney; 10 children; husband died & Catherine both died 1911, at Grafton. Note 'Cluneshannon' is Cloonshannagh in the civil parish of Kilmore, Carrick-on-Shannon Poor Law Union. A Michael Beirne in Griffith Valuation at Aughim. Cloonfad Beg, County Roscommon.

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