NAVIGATION

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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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