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Participant Info

First Name

Letitia

Surname

Connelly (Connolly)

Native Place

Enniskillen, Fermanagh

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Derwent (Melbourne Feb 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes; Enniskillen PLU PRONI BG/14/G/4 (2065) as Letty Connolly shown as 14, orphan, RC Ballyreagh, Salry, entered workhouse 2 Feb 1848 left 26 Oct 1849. Empl. L Tweedy, Lonsdale St., Melbourne £7, 12 months; 18 Mar, returned to depot; 29 Apr reassigned Mr & Mrs McClelland, Collins St., Melbourne £5, 3 months; 3 Jul 'still not returned'; married William Hayes, 4 May 1856 at Brighton; 5 children, husband a storekeeper, lived Dunolly; she died 13 May 1899; husband was an astute businessman whose wealth was from dividends of Goldsborough Mining Company, his estate valued at £7487 in 1890; See 'Barefoot & Pregnant', vol. 2, pp.134-6 for details of Wills, funeral and death notices.

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