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Participant Info

First Name

Eliza

Surname

Black?

Native Place

Magherafelt, Derry

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Roman Emperor (Adelaide 1848)

Details

Trevor McClaughlin supplied the names of a number of possible Roman Emperor orphans who came from workhouses in Castlederg (Co. Tyrone) Larne (Co. Antrim) & Magherafelt (Co. Londonderry). Eliza is recorded as being 'in fever' and 'sickly' when she entered Magherafelt workhouse on 28 Jan 1848; she left 10 Jul 1848, perhaps to join the 'Roman Emperor'. Officially 21 young women came from Magherafelt workhouse & 8 from Larne. This girl has not been located in any South Australian records so perhaps was not on the Roman Emperor.

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