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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Welsh (Walsh)

Native Place

Waterford

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; on of 25 from Waterford Workhouse; per 'Raven' to Portland, empl Mr D Gleeson, Mount Clay, near Portland, £11, 6 months; married Isaac Mepstead in Portland in 1851 as Catherine Ingham [her mother's maiden name][why?]; Isaac died 14 Feb 1880 Penola aged c.53; Catherine died Sep 1906 also at Penola, South Australia

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