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Participant Info

First Name

Fanny

Surname

Sheridan

Native Place

Downpatrick, Down

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Derwent (Melbourne Feb 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes; Downpatrick PLU PRONI BG12/G/2 (378) aged 16 single, want of employment, Union at Large, into workhouse 12 Aug 1849, left 25 Oct 1849. Empl. James Murphy, Moonee Ponds, £10, 6 months; Fanny was born Frances Carson in 1833 (parents, John Carson & Mary Sheridan); married English-born ex-convict Joseph Walsham, at St Francis RC Church, Melbourne, Aug 1850; 1 children, 6 of whom (5 girls and 1 boy), born Victoria at Spring Creek, Kalkallo, Medland Estate). In 1863 Fanny, Joseph & their 6 children went to Port Chalmers, Otago, New Zealand on the "Hydra". 5 more children born Dunedin; Fanny, Joseph and their family lived in Dunedin for the rest of their lives. Fanny died 1896 & Joseph died 1903; with thanks to descendant in New Zealand

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