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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Wallace

Native Place

Cashel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Richard & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, read only, no relatives in colony, sister Bridget also on Lady Peel; parents Richard Wallace (gardener) & Mary Cummins from St John the Baptist RC, Cashel & daughters Bridget bap 11 Jan 1827 & Catherine bap 21 Jul 1829; sister Bridget also on Lady Peel; empl. A Albrecht, George St, Sydney £10, 2 years; married Charles Middlemiss Dillon of York, 1862 in Victoria; 7 children; lived for ten years at Beechworth goldfields, settled Port Melbourne where at one time they had 100 hansom cabs; died 1885, buried Melbourne General Cemetery.

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