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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Fox

Native Place

Killyman [parish], Armagh

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Patrick & Fanny (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony. Armagh PLU PRONI BG2/G/2/ into workhouse 10 May 1847, aged 17 tolerably well clothed from Armagh town, out 7 Jul 1847; in 10 Jul 1847 (1203) thinly clothed, hungry, Union at Large, out 24 May 1848; empl Mr Hutchinson, Sydney, £10, 12 months; married widower Archibald Graham, Sydney in 1852; lived Dapto & Wollongong; sponsored her brother Bernard Fox from Glenmore, on 'Commodore Perry' 1856; she raised 6 surviving children her husbands first marriage, 12 of her own & 2 of her stepson's children; died 1920.

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