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Participant Info

First Name

Winifred

Surname

Roach

Native Place

Galway [Tuam]

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads; empl. Dr Fletcher, Murray Rd. £8 12 months; Tuam Herald 1 Dec 1849 reported Winnefred Roache a house servant to Mrs Gloster, at Melbourne;married 1) Parkhurst exile Irishman Henry Cowell, 1850 in Sydney, moved to Ballarat 1852, 5 children; deserted by Henry who died in New Zealand in 1863; married 2) Irishman John Thompson in Ballarat in 1859, 8 children (13 children in 20 years). John died in 1875; 4 youngest children sent to orphanage; Winifred moved to Tilpa near Wilcannia c.1880 & ran the 'Wee Water Hotel'; married 3) James Colypreast near Wilcannia 1893, no death recorded; James Colypriest died 1920 Wilcannia.

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