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Participant Info

First Name

Jessie

Surname

Foley

Native Place

Kinmere [Kenmare], Kerry

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Patrick & Mary Anne (mother living in Kenmare)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes, relations in colony: cousin, Michael Hargan, living at Port Phillip; Kenmare PLU Minutes - one of 25 selected for this ship, noted from Kenmare East; Im.Cor 50/692 Moreton Bay 30 Aug 1850 enquiry from Mike Horgan, Melbourne; she is employed by Mr Feeny of Brisbane. She is wrongly shown as Joyce Foley from Killarney by Dymphna McLoughlin in Famine Atlas, pp.255-264.

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