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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Fahan

Native Place

Carrick on Suir, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads; per 'Raven' to Portland. Empl. R Donnelly, Portland, £6 12 months; married Joseph Boys [Boyes, Boyce] at Portland, 1 Mar 1850; Joseph was a convict 'exile'; at least five children in Hamilton-Camperdown areas by 1872; a widow since 1891, she struggled to pay her rates & local council moved her from her house which was demolished; she died destitute 21 Mar 1908 at Camperdown and was buried with her husband.

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