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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Guare

Native Place

Eskeaton [Askeaton], Limerick

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Richard & Bridget (mother living at Eskeaton)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lismoyne (Sydney 29 Nov 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; empl. Mr de Phillipsthall, Bathurst, £8, 1 year; mother's name Mary according to Askeaton baptismal records; married George Hitchen, Bathurst 1850; 10 children; husband ex-convict and gold digger on Meroo River, 1854-83; two sons, Richard & William, organised the Gilgandra Cooee Recruitment March in the spring of 1915; grandson, Roy Munro, was awarded a DCM for conspicuous gallantry in France in 1917. George died in 1902; Catherine died 1913, buried Gilgandra.

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