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Participant Info

First Name

Jane

Surname

Donnolly [Donelly]

Native Place

Fermanagh

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, can read & write; descendant found a Jane Donnelly in the Enniskillen workhouse records, with her mother Ellen and siblings Margaret, Catherine, Patrick, Roseann and Henry. All entered the workhouse 5 Jan 1847 & left 29 Jan 1847 but probably entered again before the Pemberton sailed in Jan 1849; empl. Edward Bell, Richmond, £8, 12 months; married, St Peter's, Melbourne 1850 to John Galley an 'exile' (from Essex) per Marion 1848; 10 children. She died in Hawthorn 1911, buried Kew.

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