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Participant Info

First Name

Sarah

Surname

McKeown [McEwen, McKane]

Native Place

Derry,

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Not recorded

Ship Name

Roman Emperor (Adelaide 1848)

Details

Need to confirm workhouse, either Magherafelt or Coleraine: PRONI BG23/G/1 Magherafelt workhouse, Derry, ‘was at service’ but now out of employment, clean, entered workhouse 8 Dec 1846, left 12 July 1848 (officially 21 from Magherafelt workhouse) or also BG/10/A/6 Coleraine Minutes Jan 1848-Mar 1849 shows Sarah McKeown 18 as one of 12 girls from Coleraine PLU; in 1850-51 on list of Adelaide prostitutes and arrested for drunkenness; is probably the Sarah Ann Greaves McKane aged 21 who married Ernest Valentine Fischer, aged at Trinity church, Adelaide in 1853; 10 children located; Sarah died 1903; her husband 1914 aged 88

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