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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Gollagher (Gallagher)

Native Place

Galway [on shipping]-Donegal

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write; empl. by TB Townland, Melbourne £10, 6 months. Is actually from Donegal; sister Biddy also per 'Lady Kennaway'; parents Francis & Ellen Gallagher; empl. by TB Townland, Melbourne, £10, 6 months [note wrongly entered under Biddy Gollagher in 'Barefoot & Pregnant']; married John McCahery (b.Fermanagh) Melbourne 1849, several children born Bylands area near Kilmore where family farmed; Ellen died 1872

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