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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Donelan

Native Place

Leightford [?], Galway

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Peter & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony, sister Mary also on Panama. Empl. by WW Jenks, Barkly, £7-₤8, 2 years. Im. Cor. 50/365 indentured at Wollongong. Had fits-surgeon's report SRNSW 4/1149.1, 50/1331; married Henry Mitchell 11 Jan 1854 St Francis Xavier, Wollongong, witnessed by her sister Mary; 12 children; died 18 Feb 1923 buried Mollymook with husband.

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