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Participant Info

First Name

Johanna

Surname

Ryan

Native Place

Bandon, Cork

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Patrick & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: houseservant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; married David Harley, 17 Sep 1851, St Patrick’s Parramatta; 12 children, 1st two in Sydney, the rest in the Richmond River district where she & her husband lived a long and prosperous life as some of the early settlers at Gundurimba near Lismore; she died 11 July 1916 at Lismore, obituary in Northern Star 14 Jul 1916. initial research with help of descendants

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