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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

McGuire (Maguire)

Native Place

Enniskillen, Fermanagh

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Derwent (Melbourne Feb 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes; PRONI Enniskillen PLU BG14/G/4 (2497) orphan, Letterbreen, Coollermer, with sister Bessy aged 7 & brother James aged 2, entered 22 Mar 1848, left 26 Oct 1849; empl. by Dr Rowe, Kilmore, ₤9, 12 months; married 1) Abraham Gunn, 10 children (7 dau, 5 sons), father noted as Giles Maguire, an army captain; married 2) 4 children to James Dowker lived Kilmore, Sandhurst (Bendigo); Catherine moved to Deniliquin c.1881 where she worked as a nurse; died Deniliquin 1894 [Barefoot & Pregnant? research in 1990s by Trevor McClaughlin]

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