NAVIGATION
Participant Info
- First Name
- Catherine
- Surname
- Mackey (McKey)
- Native Place
- Clogher? [Cloogher, Clonogan?], Wicklow
- Age On Arrival
- 14/15
- Parents
- Not recorded
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Ship Name
- New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)
- Details
- shipping: house servant, reads & writes; sister Maria also on board;empl Rob Robinson, Elizabeth St., £5, 2 years; 'cancelled'; empl John Cockran, Great Bourke St., £5, 2 years; then 'to Irwin Byrne, Draper, McKillop St., Melbourne, 12 months; ill-treated by her employer, Mr Williams, schoolmaster of Brighton, report of case, 'The Argus', Melbourne, Sat 3 Nov 1849, p.2d: ILL-TREATING AN ORPHAN GIRL - Mr Williams, Schoolmaster, at Brighton, appeared at the Police Court, to answer the complaint of Dr Patterson, who charged him with ill-treating Catherine Mackie, one of the Irish orphan girls per 'New Liverpool', who had been apprenticed to him. There were several witnesses examined, including the girl, who is not more than twelve years of age. The evidence went to prove that Mr Williams had struck the girl repeatedly with a broom handle, and when she cried out with pain he filled her mouth with ashes to prevent the neighbours being alarmed. Mr Williams was fined 10s and 30s costs.'
- Story
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