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Participant Info

First Name

Alice

Surname

Ball

Native Place

Enniskillen, Fermanagh

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write; PRONI Enniskillen PLU BG/14/G/4 (No.48) (No.3708); sister Jane also on Diadem; empl. John Brown, sail maker, Richmond, Melbourne £7, 12 months; committed suicide by throwing herself in the Yarra River, Melbourne, after being pregnant to her married master, 'Argus' 26 Apr & 1 May 1850; identified by shipmate her Catherine Carroll who was Catherine Cahill, also from Fermanagh (there is no Catherine Carroll on the Diadem, she is almost certainly Catherine Cahill, also from Fermanagh).

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