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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Riley (O'Reilly, Ryley)

Native Place

White Hill, Fermanagh [Ballycassidy, Laragh]

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, reads only; Enniskillen PLU PRONI BG14/G/4 (1486) 16 year old orphan clean and healthy, Ballycassidy, Laragh, entered workhouse 12 Oct 1847, left 3 Oct 1849; as Ryley empl. Daniel Leahy, La Trobe St., Melbourne, £9, 6 months; in 1852 in Melbourne married Thomas Brown (policeman, later a miner); 10 children; lived Taradale & Malmsbury, buried Malmsbury, Victoria, Apr 1912

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