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Participant Info

First Name

Ann

Surname

Trainer (Cassidy, Traynor)

Native Place

Derry [Londonderry], Maherfelt [Magherafelt]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

mother: Cathy Cassidy

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Derwent (Melbourne Feb 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes; Magherafelt PLU PRONI BG/23/G/1 (28) (431) (589) (1387) (1685) (2273) (5617) (7344) bastard child of Cathy Cassidy, a spinner, mendicant, Tobermore, Drumreany, in and out of workhouse from 1842, variously named as Ann Traynor or Anne Cassidy; brothers, Patrick, Henry & Samuel; her last entry in the workhouse: 'Union at Large, mendicant, destitute', entered 4 Jan 1849, left 30 Oct 1849 in time to board the Derwent; empl. by Andrew Doyle, carpenter, Collins St., Melbourne £8 6 months; married George Richard Whitford (sea captain) in Melbourne in 1854; Ann lived with her husband on the lighter, Allegro, which traded around Port Phillip; in late 1865 the family moved to Hokitika, New Zealand; 5 or 6 children born Victoria and NZ; Ann died at Hokitika, New Zealand in 1874.

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