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Participant Info

First Name

Eliza

Surname

Taaffe [Taafe]

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

not recorded on shipping

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Inconstant (Adelaide Jun 1849)

Details

On list of passengers in 'South Australian Register', 9 Jun 1849; North Dublin Workhouse BG 78/G 4, No.21612, Eliza Taaffe, 16, single, good health, born Dublin, ragged & dirty, Union at large, admitted 10 May 1847, discharged 17 Aug 1847 – with her sister, Ellen 13, born Lucan, ragged & dirty, very delicate who died 18 Jun 1847 and their mother Mary Taaffe, 30 single, dealer, pregnant, born Dublin, ragged & dirty died 19 Jul 1847; also North Dublin PLU BG78/G/5 No.23941 Eliza Taaff, 18, single, servant, convalescent, from fever, ‘sent to Australia’, Union at large, admitted 5 Sep 1847, discharged 7 Feb 1849, returned from fever sheds; married John Coxon 21 May 1858 Adelaide; at least 2 children b.1859 & 1868 in Adelaide; died Oct 1904 at Moama NSW a year after her husband's death in Jun 1903.

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