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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Desmond

Native Place

Dunmanway, Cork

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: house servant, can read & write. Empl. William Wilmington, Flinders Lane, ₤7, 6 months; married Henry Ghee (freeman) in 1855; 6 daughters; their brother, John, emigrated in to Australia 1854; Ellen & her husband died one month apart in 1879 at the Maryborough hospital (Victoria) of tuberculosis.

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