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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Darsey or Dawson

Native Place

Larne, Antrim [Ballynure town]

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads; Larne PLU PRONI BG 17/G/1 (3590) (4067) Ballynure, Templecarron, good health, dirty, starving, entered workhouse 14 Jun 1849, out 4 Oct 1849; As Darcey empl. by Catherine Lyons, Melbourne, £8, 6 months; married Andrew Strahan in 1855. Andrew convicted of embezzlement in 1857 and uttering a forged cheque in 1861. Three sons born by 1866. Catherine possibly died in 1880.

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