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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Rooney

Native Place

Sligo

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: house servant, reads; empl. John Green, a plaisterer, in Little Bourke St., Melbourne, ₤7, 3 months; went to Barrabool Hills near Geelong; 1852 married James Dowling (son of Van Diemen's Land convict Charles Dowling) who at time of marriage was a farmer at Colac; 9 children; she died 1904.

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