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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Sheedy

Native Place

Clonmel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes; probably sister of Margaret; Clonmel PLU 14 Apr 1849, BG67/A/9 p.257 list of 28 orphan girls about to leave the workhouse, includes Ellen Sheedy, aged 16, left workhouse on 18 Apr 1849, left workhouse on 18 Apr 1849; Empl. Henry Townend, Collins St., £5, 12 months; married James Nagle, 7 Jun 1856, Gippsland; 2 children by 1858, husband a farmer Tarraville.

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