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| First Name | Last Name | Date of Birth | Native Place | Parents | Religion | Ship Name | Family | Other Details | Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret | Connelly | 1846/7 | Ireland | RC | Tartar (14/1/1868) | She married expiree and ex-soldier (from the 63rd foot) Edward Abraham Yates in Picton (27/10/1868).They had 4 children: Edward James, Sarah Hannah, William Thomas, and Patrick Connelly. | Her husband was convicted of desertion in Canada (London, Ontario) in September 1862. He arrived in WA on the Racehorse (9/8/1865), having been transported from Portland Prison. He was English, from Preston in Lancashire. | She died in Bunbury in 1894 aged about 43 years; her place of burial is unknown. Edward Abraham Yates died in Perth on 29/11/1910 and is buried in Karrakatta cemetery. | |
| Maria | Connolly | 1831 | Tipperary | Thomas and Catherine nee Canady | RC | Travancore | Married Morris Sheehan, 30/4/1853 at Perth, 4 children. | He was a shoemaker, they lived in Perth. | 1906 |
| Mary A | Connolly | 1841 | Burlington (April1863) | She married enrolled pensioner guard James McEntee (of Monaghan), presumably in Ireland. They had 10 children: John, Patrick Joseph, James, John Francis, James Stephen, Bernard/Barnard Edward, Annie Gertrude, Charles, Paul and Theodore. | The family moved to South Australia on an unknown ship prior to 1866. James McEntee died on 28/9/1888 in Port Pirie, South Australia (suicide by drowning, buried in the town cemetery). | She died on 26/12/1905 in Glenelg South Australia (residence Port Pirie), and was buried at West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide. | |||
| Mary | Connor | c. 1832 | William and Mary | RC | Travancore | Married William Hoddy (TIL) CE Feb 1854 and RC 9/11/1856, Toodyay; had 9 children. | Emigrated from Kilmore; listed by Salvado in Toodyay, 1854; at Toodyay Migrant Depot August 1853-July 1854; engaged by Mrs Slade; he was a labourer in Toodyay and Northam and a small landholder; | Mary died in 1910 in Northam Hospital. | |
| Mary | Conway | 1832 | Tipperary | John and Ellen nee Spain | RC | Travancore | Married Alfred James Edwards in Fremantle on 11/3/1857, had 7 children. | Went ot Adelaide then returned 1858 and 1866; listed at York in 1859 census; husband was born in the colony. | She died 26/7/1897 in Fremantle |
| Catherine | Conway | c. 1834 | RC | Travancore | Married expiree Daniel Connor in Guildford, 16/1/1859; they had 6 children. | Emihgrated from Ardoughter; listed by Salvado 1854 in Upper Swan/Guildford; farmed Newcastle and Upper Swan; Daniel became a wealthy man and held property in Perth. | Spent her last years at Toodyay Convent and died there in 1915. | ||
| Margaret | Cooke | 1834, 1838 | County Galway | John Cooke and Mary Flaherty | RC | Tartar (14/1/1868) | Married free man John Fanning on 12/2/1868 (Perth RC). They had no recorded children. | John Fanning was apparently also from County Galway. | She died in Perth on on 12/4/1894, and was buried in the East Perth cemetery (RC section). Her husband John had died on 28/10/1886 and is buried in the same cemetery. |
| Mary | Cormack | c. 1833 | Co Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married Michael Nolan in Guildford, 6/3/1859, had 8 children | Farmed the Jane Brook area of Swan; he was a TIL man, died in 1892. | Notice in the West Australian 28/8/1903, death actually occurred in Upper Swan on the same date. | |
| Julia | Cronin | 1867 | RC | Lady Louisa | Arrived from London. | ||||
| Julia | Cronin | 1867 | RC | Lady Louisa | Arrived from London | ||||
| Margaret | Crosset | 1837 | Antrim | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married William Henry John Strickland in Perth, 17/4/1862, and they had 3 children: William Henry James, David John and George. Her husband had been born in Perth in 1841. | Described as a milliner. After her death, her widower Strickland married Henrietta Bell Craig in 1875. He died in 1926 in Perth. Strickland was a hotel proprietor (Freemasons Hotel, Perth, Shamrock Hotel, etc). Was chairman of WA Turf Club. | Died in Albany on 24/3/1869. | ||
| Mary | Crowe | c. 1832 | William | RC | Travancore | Married Henry Stanes Flynn alias Ricketts, PHB (5/6/1854) in Australiand; 6 children. | Listed by Salvado, May 1854 in Bunbury; servant of Forrest at Picton; listed as tenant of Thomas Little at Dardanup in 1856 | Mary died 25/4/1884 at Dardanup; Flynn died 1915 (was reported in the Southern Times). | |
| Catherine | Cunningham | 1837 | Dublin | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married Robert Mansfield 12/8/1857. Children: Mary Cecilia (1858), William Nicholas (1860), John (1861), Robert Philip (1863), Joseph Edward (1866), Thomas (1866), Priscilla Josephine (1869), Edmund Paul (1871), Isabella Grace Mansfield (1873) | Mansfield died on 21/3/1921 in Perth; buried in Karrakatta cemetery. He was an expiree, and they married in Middle Swan. Last 2 children: Florence May (1876) and Rose Anne (1878) | She died in West Perth on 20/3/1922 aged 86. There was an article in the WA Record on 25/3/1922 | ||
| Ellen (listed as Elizabeth on marriage certificate) | Cunningham | 1825 | Dublin | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived with sister. She married expiree Edward Seckingham in Guildford, 30/7/1855. They had 3 children: Mary Ann (1855-), Sarah (1856-), and Samuel (1868-); he was Church of England, and Eliza was Catholic (as were the children). | She was listed as a servant. Seckingham was a saddler in Bunbury (1873-1876), and employed 4 ticket of leave men at 'Wesburn' York on occasions between 1865-1869 and two (one a saddler) at Bunbury 1871 and 1873. He was listed at Albany in 1881. He died in | ||
| Elizabeth | Cunningham | 1831 | Dublin | James of the 51st regiment (?), Ann | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married William Allen in Perth RC, 2/10/1864. They departed on 9/10/1864 (ship: Sea Ripple) for outports or South Australia; possibly left on the same vessel. 12/5/1865. | Was listed as being in Swan, according to Bishop Salvado's 1854 census. | |
| Ann | Dagg | 1834 | Dublin | Edwin and Mary | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married Thomas Haley in Fremantle, 18/1/1856. They had 7 children: Thomas, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Mary Ann, Margaret, John and Frances. After the death of Thomas Haley in 1874, she remarried Joseph Thomas Taylor, in 1875 (they had no children). | She was listed as a domestic servant. | She she died on 17/8/1898 (aged 65–66) in Fremantle, and is buried in Fremantle cemetery. | |
| Catherine | Dalton | 1837 | King's County (?) | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married George Hayman, 11/5/1858. They had 3 children: George Augustus (1859-1939), Elizabeth Bertha (1860-1951) and Belinda Jane (1862) | Hayman was on a WA tour of service with the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot when he married Catherine. They later moved to NSW, and he died in Granville on 11/2/1908. | |||
| Catherine | Davitt, Devitt, David | 1834 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married expiree George Vagg on 15/1/1855 in Perth. They had 4 children: James, still born child, George and Mary Ann. George abandoned Catherine and her children and she later lived with her daughter Mary Ann Chan. | She was listed as a servant. Was admitted to the Women's Home on 17/3/1885, two years before her death. | She died in 1887 at about age 62 in Perth. | ||
| Catherine | Delany | Patrick Delany | Shanghai (possibly Clara) | Married expiree William Henry Summers on 27/12/1856 in Guildford. He had arrived on the Minden in October 1851. She and William farmed in Middle Swan, Bindoon and Rockingham. They had 9 children: William Edmund Summers, John Summers, Sarah Ann (Summers) M | She died on 3/4/1910 at her home in Midland Junction. An article in the Western Mail (Saturday 16th April 1910) reported her death. | ||||
| Catherine | Deneefe | 1834 | Kilkenny | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married Henry Bell on 6/8/1855 in Pinjarra | Bell employed 2 ticket of leave labourers (1864, 1866) at Williams Rd depot. He left for SA in January 1877 | |||
| Margaret | Devane | c. 1833 | Thomas and Mary nee McCourtney of Kilbury | RC | Travancore | Married Patrick (John) Flynn, 8/1/1854 CE and 11/1/1855 RC in York; she remarried Peter McCarthy O'Sullivan, 27/3/1879 in Warrialda, NSW; they had 4 children. | Emigrated from Clahane; was listed by Salvado in York, 1854; in 1871 she put a notice in the WA papers asking John to get in touch since she hadn't seen him in 14 years and she intended to marry again. | Obituary appeared in the Inverell Times, 9/7/1907. | |
| Catherine | Develin | 1837 | Ireland | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married expiree William Usher Pass on 10/11/1853 in Perth. They had 7 children: Arthur William, Emily Jane, Walter, Henry, Lydia Agnes, John and Mary Ann. | She worked as a nurse or matron at Fremantle Lunatic Asylum. Her husband William left the colony for Victoria in January 1869, and died there in 1889. he had been a butcher in Guildford (1867-68). | She died on 20/5/1918 at about age 81 in Beaconsfield, and was buried in Fremantle cemetery. There was a notice the following day in the West Australian. | ||
| Ellen, Nelly | Devely, Develey | 1834 | Galway | Sabrina (June 1853) | She arrived with her sister. Married expiree Edward Chatterton, 15/11/1856 in Bunbury He had been working as a blacksmith for Marshall Waller Clifton, and they settled on a house on his property. in Australind. They had no children. | Her husband lived and worked in Guildford as a blacksmith for many years, starting in 1865, and employed 19 ticket-of-leave men. he died in 1897. he had been imprisoned in Fremantle (1860-1862), convicted of stealing Clifton's watch. | Died in 1906, while living in Scott Street, Guildford. | ||
| Helen Deborah (known as 'Nelly) | Devilly, Devely, Develey | 1852 | Galway | John Devly and Mary Welch | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Sister of Ellen, who arrived on the same ship. She married William Saunders in Geraldton, 5/2/1857, according to Catholic rites. They had previously been married on the beach at Port Gregory, with Capt Sanford of the Lynton Convict Depot officiating. | They had 9 children: John, William, David, Peter, Margaret, Ellen, Joseph, Margaret, Walter. | She died in Geraldton on 31/7/1907. Her original burial site is in Apex Park, Geraldton. The gravestone was damaged by vandals and subsequently removed. Her husband William died in Geraldton, 27/8/1885. |
| Ann, Anna | Dobbs | 1837 | Tyrone | James and Mary Ann | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married Meshach Laurence Parsons in Albany on 2/1/1854, then again in a RC ceremony, 11/1854. They had 8 children (and another who died at birth): Rose, John, Margaret, Elizabeth, Thomas, Ann, Edward and William. | Ann was listed at Albany as Roman Catholic by Salvado in 1854 and also in the 1881 Census. | She died on 15/10/1906 at about age 75 in Albany. Her husband had died in the same town in Oct 1892. |
| Mary | Dobbs, Daubs | 1836 | Tyrone, Co Galway | James (yeoman) | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married free man John Hayes in Albany on 20/3/1854. They had 5 children: Margaret, John, Mary Ann, Elizabeth and James. | John Hayes was was a ship's apprentice who left ship at Fremantle, and later became a fisherman at Albany, where he also supplied the mail boats. Their first son, John Hayes, was killed in 1890 in a shooting accident while skinning a seal. | She died in Albany on 13/7/1899, and is buried in the RC section of Albany Memorial cemetery. Her husband died on 28/7/1916 at about age 87 in Torbay, WA. |
| Mary Ann (e) | Doherty | Shanghai | Married William (James?) Hone. They had 2 children: William (1858) and John (1863); both baptised at Fremantle RC. | ||||||
| Bridget | Doherty | 1845, 1849, 1853 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married Edward Smyth, possibly an expiree, who was a farmer in Dongara (1870s) and lighthouse keeper (1876). They had 3 children: Edward Bolton Smyth (1873-1950), Henrietta Ann Smyth Mcintyre (1874-1951), and Richard Smythe (1876–1877). | Bridget may have separated from Edward c 1884 and was possibly working as a cook at White Peak Station, Northampton WA. He died in Dongara in January 1886. | ||||
| Ann | Donnellan | 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married Samuel Thomas Reynolds (RC), 30/10/1854 in Bunbury; 2 children. | Listed by Salvado 1854 in Bunbury; lived at 'Moorlands' 1850s. | |||
| Kate | Donovan | 1862 | RC | Lady Louisa | Kate was a teacher working for the Sisters of Mercy. | ||||
| Rosanna | Doran (?) | 1833 | Ireland | RC | Berkshire (March 1855) | She married William Moate on 23/71855 in York (C/E) and then 5/9/1856 (RC). They had 12 children. Was hutkeeper for Thomas Butler in 1859 | Children: Catherine, Michael, Patrick, Frances Theresa, John, Eliza, James, John, Samuel, Rosannah, Bridget, William | Died on 4 /2/1892 at about age 57 in York. There was an article in the Eastern Districts Chronicle on 6/2/1892 | |
| Rosanna | Doran, Dorien | 1835 | Kildare | Married expiree William Moate on 23/7/1855 in York. They had 10 children. William died in 1877 (in York) and she outlived him. | Children were: Bridget (1872), Micheal (1857), Catherine (1856), Elizabeth (1863), Frances (1860), Jack (1862), Patrick (1859, Rosannah (1870, Louisa (?), William (1872) | ||||
| Catherine | Dowling | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Emigrated from Kilmore; listed consecutively on passenger list with Mary Dowling (D12); both listed by Salvado 1854 York; possibly sisters. | ||||
| Mary | Dowling | c. 1833 | RC | Travancore | Married or defactor c. 1856 with expiree Patrick Hogan; 1 child. | Emigrated from Kilmore; consecutively listed on passenger list with Catherine Dowling; both listed by Salvado in 1854, York; possibly sisters. | |||
| Jessie Emily | Downe | Possibly Sydenham (Kent) | Shanghai (November 1856) | Married expiree Fred Tindale on 7/4/1859 or 7/8/1859. They had 4 children: William Henry (1859-died same year), John (1861- lived 10 days), Frederick George (1862), George Brewer (1865), and 2 others. | Fred Tindale left the colony for South Australia on 18 November 1871 | She died in 1923 | |||
| Mary | Dunn. | 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married widower William Watson Carter in Perth 6/2/1853; 4 children and 4 step-children. | Went to Victoria July 1854; William died Port Fairy. | 9/7/1904 in Port Fairy, Victoria; this was reported in the Port Fairy Gazette (12/7/1904). | ||
| Mary | Dunne | c. 1831 | Co Limerick | James and Mary Ann nee O'Brien | RC | Travancore | Married Frederick Higgins in Dardanup, 1/10/1853, 7 children. | Both listed by Salvado at Vasse in 1854; farmed at 'Rose Hill' in Capel; the Higgins brothers known as fine horse and cattle breeders; he was a free settler who arrived with his family. | She died in Donnybrook in 1905, he died in Dardanup. |
| Margaret | Dunne | 1841, 1850 | John | RC | Tartar (14/1/1868) | She married James Burns in 1877 in Fremantle. He was a saddler based in Fremantle, who had been born on Co. Westmeath and arrived in WA with his parents. He and Margaret had one son, Andrew (b. 1879). | She died on 18/2/1909 in Fremantle, and was buried the following day at Fremantle Cemetery (RC section). Her husband died the following year. | ||
| Sally | Dwyre | c. 1834 | Co Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married (RC) expiree Michael Horan in Toodyay, 18/7/1858. | Farmed Toodyay 'Deepdale' and 'Mortingup'; he became an alluvial miner at Kanowna | She died of heart disease in Kanowna in April 1900. | |
| Martha | Egan | 1834 | Co Cork | John | RC | Palestine | Married Charles Gilbert Charles on 29/6/1857 in Champion Bay. Children Janet Anne (1859), John (1861), Mary (baptised 1862), Elizabeth (1863), Martha (1865), Charlotte (baptised 1870), William (1901). | Charles was a farmer and miner. He married again after she died, to Rachel Milligan, born in Downpatrick. | Died on 28/1/1891 in Greenough |
| Jane | Fannings, Fann | Shanghai (November 1856) | Married (or was possibly de facto) to John Byrne. They had a child Mary, who was baptised in 1859. | ||||||
| Mary | Farrall | c. 1832 | Thomas | RC | Travancore | Married John Harntnett in Bunbury, 3/2/1856 (TIL); they had 7 children. | Emigrated from Clahane; employed by Clifton at Australind; farmed 'Crooked Brook' Dardanup; he was from Kerry and died in 1899 from Bright's Disease. | She died on 14/4/1914. | |
| Bridget | Farrell | 1831 | Dublin | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married Joseph Myales/Miles in 1854 or 1855. They married again on 2/5/1857. They had 11 children: Thomas Patrick, Joseph Dennis, Charles, Mary Ann, Jane Ann, George, Elizabeth, Anna, Maria Josepha, John and Thomas. | Bridget arrived with her sisters Eliza and Ann, and they were all listed as domestic servants from Dublin. Three of her children died in infancy and one at the age of 3. When she remarried Joseph in 1857, her name was listed as 'Jane Lyng'. | Died on 25/5/1875 due to complications from childbirth. The child (Thomas) may have died too. Bridget was buried in the East Perth Cemetery where her baby Charles was buried in 1861. Joseph Myales married Maria Robinson in 1876, and he died in 1880 in Gui | |
| Marcella | Farrell | 1828 | Ireland (possibly Dublin) | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived with sisters Margaret Mary and Bridget | |||
| Kate | Farrell | 1861 | RC | Lady Louisa | She was one of the girls brought over by the Sisters of Mercy | ||||
| Mary | Farrell, Farrall | 1828, possibly 1832 | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married Parkhurst boy (convict) George Dakin in Busselton, 29/6/1855. He had arrived on the Ameer (February 1849). He worked as a farmer in Busselton in the 1860s. | |||||
| Elizabeth | Fee | 1838 | Thomas | Shanghai (1856) | Married expiree Thomas Armstrong on 24/8/1858 in Fremantle. He had arrived on the Berkshire (March 1855). He was an agricultural labourer, and he died on 18/1/1886. | ||||
| Ann | Fee | Shanghai (November 1856) | She married John Oliver on 20/9/1860. They had 4 children: John Adam (1863-1867), Frances Ann (baptised 1866, died 1867), Elizabeth Mary (baptised 1867), and Margaret. | John Oliver arrived on the Shepherd (1838) with his parents John and Catherine. He went on to become a farmer in the Swan Districts at ‘Magonah’ (1860s-1880s); he qualified as a juror in 1860 with 150 pounds personal estate | |||||
| Johanna | Fennell | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married William Amsley, 9/1/1853 CE and 27/1/1854 RC in Bunbury; they had 6 children; she married 2nd expiree George Grant in 1876 in Busselton; he deserted his family c. 1884. | Emigrated from Ardoughter; was assaulted on the way to her employment in Canning; listed by Salvado May 1854 in Bunbury; William was a shipping master and whaler in Bunbury and Busselton; she worked as a laundress in the 1870s. | Died 23/7/1890. | ||
| Catherine, Cath | Finn | 1831 | Cork | John | Berkshire (March 1855) | She married expiree John Negus, 24/5/1861. They had 4 children: Elizabeth (1863, died at 5 weeks), John (1866, York, died at 6 weeks), Joseph (1869), John (1871) | Negas was a farmer in York, and Catherine carried on the farm after he died on 28/2/1877 | Died in York, 1907 |