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Participant Info

First Name

Johanna [Hannah]

Surname

Fleming [Flemming]

Native Place

Mitchellstown, Cork

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Thomas & Ellen (mother living in Mitchellstown)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relations in colony; note that Mitchellstown PLU was created in the second wave of workhouses but was in the old Fermoy PLU so that would have been Johanna’s workhouse; descendant records her townland and parish as Brigown; married London-born John Williams in 1852 in Sydney, as Hannah; soon moved to Victoria where all 9 children born in goldfields districts; settled at Lamploough near Avoca; husband a miner, died of TB in 1874; Johanna died 1916, both buried Avoca with other family members.

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