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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Heggarty (Hegarty, Hagarty)

Native Place

possibly Kilshannig near Mallow, Cork

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Not recorded

Ship Name

Elgin (Adelaide 12 Sep 1849)

Details

Only age on shipping; this woman seems to fit Catherine Heggarty but still not totally proven: married 39 year-old farmer, Henry Whitaker on 20 Aug 1851 at Macclesfield, South Australia according to rites of 'protestant dissenters'. By 1850s they were at Pleasant Creek (Stawell) goldfields, Victoria; 4 children; Henry disappeared & she took up with blacksmith William Hustler; 10 children; she had problems with alcohol and died 16 May 1879 at Penshurst, Victoria

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