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| First Name | Last Name | Date of Birth | Native Place | Parents | Religion | Ship Name | Family | Other Details | Death |
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| Johanna(h) | Fitzpatrick | 1836 | Ireland | Michael and Bridget | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | She married free settler Andrew Lanigan (of Innistiage Kilkenny), 4/4/1864. They had 7 children: Richard Patrick, Mary Ann, Ellen Mary, Michael, James Edmund, Bridget Mary and Johanna Catherine. | Andrew Lanigan was a farmer and pastoralist in Victoria Plains. He died in 1896. | Johanna died on 31/8/1922 (aged 85-86) in New Norcia. |
| Mary | Flanagan | 1834 | Mountbellew workhouse | RC | Palestine | Married George Armstead Smith (expiree) in Bunbury, 10/1/1854 (Church of England), then 27/1/1854 (RC). Had 12 children, 9 of whom lived to adulthood. Emma Ann (1856), Alice Maud (1859), Amy Mary (1861), Andrew Robert (baptised 1864), Henry (1869). | Was omn a steamer in 1857 to South Australia to follow the Victorian goldrushes. | ||
| Anney | Flannery | c. 1833 | Co Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married TP John Bracken (25/1/1854, CE and 28/1/1854 RC) in Perth, had 8 children. | Both she and John were listed by Salvado in Mr Herbert's house (Toodyay, where he worked) in 1854. Went to Champion's Bay and Northampton in 1860s. | 1904 | |
| Mary | Flynn | RC | Palestine | Married Joseph Saunders 10/1/1858 (RC),then second husband John Bayneham 18/1/1874. Children mary (1859), Joseph (1860), Sarah (1864), Harriet (twin, 1868), Selina (twin, 1868), Susan, George (1871), Emma (1873), Ada Elizabeth (1873). | |||||
| Anney | Foley | 1832 | Travancore | Married/df John Carroll. He died 1876. | |||||
| Catherine (Kate) | Foley | 1844 | Strathmore (1864) | Had a sister Margaret Foley. Married Ferdinand Tondut (1868). They had 5 children: one girl (born 1869), Caroline (1870), Charles James (1872), Mary Elizabeth (1874) and Ferdinand Joseph (1875). | She had been nominated by Charles Camm (brother-in-law). Ferdinand (known as Fred) was born on 1/6/1844 (Perth); died on 2/12.1920 (aged 76) in South Perth (buried in Karrakatta). He had remarried Ellen Mary Foster,1886. | She died of phthisis on 28/11/1882 (aged 37–38) in Perth, and was buried in East Perth Cemetery. | |||
| Margaret | Foley | 1840 | Strathmore (1864) | She was the sister of Kate Foley | Had been nominated by Charles Camm (her brother-in-law, who had married her sister Elizabeth). He was a laborer from Newcastle. | ||||
| Maria, Mary | Forrester, Forrestall | 1829 | Kilkenny | Edmund | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married George Robinson on 15/11/1858 in Perth. They had 1 child: Henry James (1859) | George Robinson died in 1875 in Geraldton. He had married Sarah Hannah (Prescott) Rogers after Maria's death | Died on 1/5/1863 (this is uncertain) | |
| Ann | Gallagher (also known as Gallaghan) | Strathmore (1864) | Went to South Australia on the Sea Ripple. | ||||||
| Ellen | Gallaher | 1828 | RC | Travancore | married David Harris in Wonnerup, 24/12/1856. | Departed from WA in 1868, going to Melbourne with 3 children and no husband. | 1890 in Wollombi, NSW. | ||
| Martha | Giltinan, Giltman | c. 1830 | Clare | Michael | Sabrina (June 1853) | She arrived with her sister Honor. In 1869, she married enrolled pensioner guard John Fleming, who had also been born in Ireland, and came to WA on the Hougoumont (1868). They departed for Melbourne in May 1871. No children. | Martha died in Subiaco on 12/11/1908, and was buried in Karrakatta cemetery. The details of her husband's death is unknown. | ||
| Honor, Honora | Giltinan, Giltman | 1825 | Clare | Michael | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived with her sister Martha. She married enrolled pensioner guard William Pugh Smith in Perth, 1856. They had 3 children: William Pugh (1856-1923), Martha (1860-1862), and Richard (born and died 1860). | She died on 7/11/1900, and was buried in East Perth Cemetery. Her husband had died on 8/2/1884, and was buried in the same cemetery. | |
| Kitty | Gleeson | c. 1831 | Travancore | Married Thomas Moore (TIL) in Middle Swan, 1855; had 3 children. | Lived in Middle Swan; he was a labourer employed at 'Spring Park' by Hamersley. | ||||
| Honora | Glynn | 1834 | Dublin | Francis F (a baker) | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married Thomas Booler in Albany on 5/01/1854. He had arrived there in 1852. They had 6 children: Thomas, Emma Mary, James, William, George Alexander and Alfred John. | Some children (James and Alfred John) were listed as being RC (baptised?) Her husband Thomas was formerly a Private of the 20th Sappers and Miners in Bunbury during the 1860s and assistant Warden in Fremantle in the Convict Department. In 1877, the family | She died in 1884 at about age 52 in Glebe, NSW. Thomas died in 1906 in Camperdown, also 1906. |
| Ellen | Godfrey | c. 1832 | John (Ireland) | RC | Travancore | Married William Henry Weekes (CP) | He married Jane Spencer in 1859 and had 8 children. | Ellen died 1858. Bdm records age as 21 years | |
| Catherine | Gorman | 1828 | Kilkenny | Sabrina (June 1853) | Was listed as a domestic servant. | ||||
| Honorah | Gready | 1848 or 1850 | Strathmore (January 1869) | She had been booked for a passage in Palestine (arriving 5/8/1868), but her cousin Fitzpatrick took her berth instead under the name of Gready. She arrived later on the Strathmore. | |||||
| Esther | Grealey | 1845 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree Dominic Lenaghan/Lenachan (12/3/1870) at Fremantle Congregation Church; they had one child, Frederick (born and died at 5 days old, 1870). | Her husband was born in Ireland (1836). He died on 9 November 1903, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. | ||||
| Mary (Ann) | Gribbin, Gribben | 1838 | Ireland | Nellie | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | She married William Doyle, son of Michael. He was a shepherd for J. Morrissey at 'Yarragathee' and a farmer at 'Coojerina' (according to the Almanac (1876 - 1889). | They lived in the Greenough/Upper Irwin region. | |
| Ellen, Helen | Guiry, Guery | 1829 | Waterford | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married expiree George Richards on 27/1/1854 in Bunbury. They had one child, Alfred, who was born the following year. | George employed two ticket of leave men 1869, one at York and one at Bunbury.. | |||
| Elizabeth | Guy | 1831 | Dublin | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married expiree William Ford on 11/5/1857 in Toodyay. Children: Annie (1859) and Joseph James (1861) | She died on 15/10/1907 in Northam | |||
| Elizabeth | Hagan, Egan | 1838, 1840 | Strathmore (January 1869) | She married Edward George Byfield (16/2/1870) at Perth Wesley Church. | Byfield was a sawyer, contractor and farmer in Guildford, born in 1843 and died on 3/5/1930 (in Guildford). | She died on 5/1/1910 in Guildford. | |||
| Bridget | Hallinan | 1844, 1846 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Arrived from London. | |||||
| Ellen | Halpin, Allpin | 1848, 1850, 1851 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree James Kelly/Kelley (1874). A child was born the following year. | Her husband was a stone sawyer, born in 1829, who arrived on the Pyrenees II (arrived April 1853). | ||||
| Mary Ann | Hart | 1837 | Robert | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree Joseph Ledger, alias Sowden, in Perth (18/9/1869). They had no children. | Ledger/Sowden was a nail maker, tinsmith and blacksmith, and he later ran a hardware store (Perth), importing and selling general household goods; he also manufactured tinware and ironware. | Died of tuberculosis at the age of 54, in early 1890. Buried in East Perth Cemetery, with a large headstone at the grave. | ||
| Catherine | Hartigan | 1850 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree Charles Ware in Fremantle (8/9/1872), and a stillborn son was born the same year. Ware died from drowning (suicide) on 15/3/1875, and Catherine remarried William Wilson (Weir) the same year in Fremantle. | Catherine and her second husband left the colony (1878?) and returned in January 1880. Her first husband left her property in Fremantle, but in 1881, a claimant, his brother brought a case against her for this. | ||||
| Catherine | Hartigan | 1848, 1850 | Michael and Mary | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married Arthur Johnson (13/3/1870). Children: Mary Anne, Emily Cecilia, Sarah Jane, Thomas Edward, Arthur Isaac, Catherine Agnes, Charles Henry, William Herbert, Francis Cornelius, Helen Augusta and Herbert Victor. | Four of their children (Emily Cecilia, Thomas Edward, William Herbert and Helen Augusta) died in childhood. | Catherine died by suicide (strychnine) on 21/12/1890 in Northampton. | ||
| Biddy | Hastings | c. 1831 | Limerick | William and Mary nee Duhigg. | RC | Travancore | Married John Cumming CP 1854 in Fremantle; 5 children. | Lived in Fremantle; John was a storekeeper and shipping agent. | She died in East Perth, 12 January 1918 9story in the Western Mail on 18 january, and a Sunday Times article 13 January. She was buried in Fremantle cemetery. |
| Bridget | Hayes | 1836 | Tipperary | Michael (a carpenter) | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived with her sister (Mary). Married expiree William Davis in Albany, 11/3/1854. he had arrived on the Marion in January 1852. in | |||
| Mary | Hayes | 1833 or 1836 | Tipperary | Michael (a carpenter) | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived with her sister (Bridget). Married police sergeant George Murray in Bunbury, 7/8/1856 or 1/2/1857. | |||
| Biddy | Hayes | c. 1827 | RC | Travancore | |||||
| Bridget 'Biddy' | Hayes | ? She was 17 on arrival in Fremantle. | Kerry | Cornelius Hayes and Mary Mahoney | RC | Clara (?) | Married David Elder (January 1854, witnessed by Mary Cashman and John William Godfrey); they had 12 children, 4 of which died in their first months. | She was a farmers wife. Her husband David was Scottish, and had been transported to Australia at 17 after stealing a glove. After her death, he remarried and changed his name to David Elder Menzies. He died and was buried in Moora (7th October 1913), and | Died on 1st February 1882 (at 46 years old), of dysentery; buried in New Norcia cemetery (unmarked grave). A death notice ("Mrs D. Elder") appeared in the Inquirer & Commercial News Perth (15/2/1882). |
| Eliza | Heagney | c. 1834 | Travancore | Married William Rollins (TIL) at Dandanup, 5/9/1853; had 2 children. | |||||
| Helen | Heartley (possibly Hartley) | John (of Ireland) | RC | Shanghai (1856) | Married freeman Samuel Lakeman in Perth RC on 29/7/1857. He was born on 15/1/1835, and arrived on the Mary in March 1852. They had 2 children: Henry Charles and Jemima (both baptised in Jarrahdale). He was a farmer in the Murray and Serpentine in the 1860 | In 1884, Samuel Lakeman applied for a 1000 acreage leasehold; by 1868 he held 2000 pastoral lease and 40 acres of freehold land around Cockburn. He employed 2 TL men (1869 and 1874). | She died on 31/8/1881 | ||
| Ann | Heffernan | 1831, 1832 | Henden (Ireland) | David Heffernan and Ellen Russell. | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married Michael Rustigan/Rattigan in Fremantle, 8/7/1853. | She was listed as a servant. | ||
| Mary | Hehir, Heir | 1838 | Limerick | Timothy | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married free man James George Biddle on 10/51855 in Northam, and they had 7 children: George James, Esther, James, William, Mary, David and Julia Louisa. When her husband died in 1879, she remarried to Cornelius Beard (in Perth, 1898). | Her first husband, James George Biddle, was a blacksmith and small farmer in Northam. | She died on 7/1/1921 at about age 83 in Northam, and there was an article in the Northam Courier (14/1/1921), which stated that she had been buried in the RC section of the Northam cemetery. |
| Catherine | Hennessey | 1856 | William and Bridget (nee Coahey) | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree John Shaw (20/9/1869), then William Wingfield (21/1/1872) and Louis Peters (1890). With Wingfield, she had three children: Mary Charlotte Wingfield (1872–1876), Sarah Wingfield Jackman (1874–1925), and Mary Ann Wingfield (1877–1883). | Catherine died at the age on 12/11/1923, at the age of 66-67. She had been living in Perth at the time, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. | |||
| Catherine | Hennessey | 1847 | John | RC | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married John Shaw on 20/9/1869, and he died in 1870 (7/11). She then married William Hiscox on 18/9/1871 in Albany, and then remarried a third time to William Wingfield, also in Albany, on 21/1/1872 | Children were Mary Charlotte Wingfield (1872–1876), Sarah Wingfield Jackman (1874–1925) and Mary Ann Wingfield (1877–1883) | Died in Perth, 12/11/1923 (aged 66–67). Buried in Karrakatta cemetery. | |
| Biddy | Hickey | c.1834 | Limerick | Michael and Margaret nee Ryan | RC | Travancore | Married CP Patrick Waters (19/4/1858, Dardanup), 7 children. | Listed by Salvado at Australind in 1854. Waters died in 1916. | |
| Honora | Hoare | c. 1832 | Michael and Mary nee Cormic | RC | Travancore | Married John Roland (TIL) in Fremantle, 1858. | |||
| Ellen | Hogan | 1836 | Cork | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married free man Lawrence Sinclair in Fremantle RC on 25/4/1857. They had 2 sons (one named George), and 2 daughters (Mrs T Thompson and Mrs G Wyndham). | She was listed as a dressmaker from Cork. Lawrence Sinclair was from the Shetland Islands, and he worked as a 'tidewaiter' (customs inspector) in Fremantle, before joining the water police as a coxswain. | Ellen died in an accidental fire at her daughter's home on 30/8/1913 (this was reported a few days later in the West Australian). She was buried in Fremantle cemetery with her husband (he had died in 1900 at the family home in Beaufort Street, Perth). | |
| Margaret | Hogan | c. 1832 | Ireland | Travancore | Married Corporal George Maybey in Perth, 10/1/1860 (CE); 2nd husband was James Brown, married 20/6/1862 in Perth (CE). | He died 11/6/1861 in Perth, she went to NSW. | She died in Woollahra NSW in 1871. | ||
| Mary | Hogan | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married John Barlow in Guildford (6/6/1854 CE and 25/12/1854 RC); had 8 children. | Listed by Salvado in Upper Swan/Guildford, 1854; he was a farmer in Middle Swan. | Mary died in Middle Swan 1873 | ||
| Nancy | Hogan | c. 1832 | |||||||
| Mary Ann | Holgate | 1841 | Born in Barbados | Thomas and Mary nee McCoy (both English) | RC (was baptised in Fremantle RC in 1860) | Shanghai (November 1856) | Married pensioner guard Thomas Randall on 2/11/1857 in Fremantle. They had 3 children: Mary Elizabeth 1/9/1858 Fremantle, Robert Michael 31/3/ 1860 Fremantle, and John Joseph c.1870. | Her husband Randall died in July 1898 in Goodwood Adelaide South Australia. | She died on 24th October 1909 Wagin (as Mary Ann Holgate Weston) |
| Ann | Houlihan, Hourihan | 1836 | County Kerry | James Houlahan, Margaret Delaney | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married expiree James Priest in York on 1/5/1859. Children: Mary Jane (1860), William James (1861), Phoebe Ann (1862), Joseph Edward (1864), Margaret (1866), John Francis (1867), Julia (1869), Frances (1872) and Bridget Maria (1874) | James Priest died on 12/8/1894 at Cut Hill, York | She died on 23/6/ 1905 at about age 73 in York | |
| Maria | Hunt | 1852 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married Henry Blair, 12/1/1869 | |||||
| Mary Margaret | Jackman | 1830 | Kilkenny | Martin Jackman and Anty Corken | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married expiree George Walker in Perth on 30/8/1853. They had 4 children: Mary, Margaret, Edward George and Margaret. After her husband died in 1862, she was remarried, to James Harris (in 1864) and had 4 more children: Ann, Clara, Harriet, and Ellen. | Her second husband, James Harris, died in 1905. | Margaret Jackman died in Perth on 29/10/1907 (aged 77–78), and was buried in Karrakatta cemetery. |
| Elizabeth | Jones | 1834 | RC | Travancore | Married Thomas Smith in Perth, 30/3/1854. | Husband attempted suicide August 1887 and was sent to Invalid Depot, Mt Eliza (15/1/1888), and died 31/1/1890. c. 1887 | |||
| Catherine | Joyce | 1844 | Edward and Maria | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | Married Michael Delany in Perth, 27/7/1865; they had 10 children: Mary, Fanny, Catherine, William, Michael, John, Edward Patrick, Agnes, Mary Jane and Ellen Maud. | Her husband died by accidental drowning in the Helena River (Guildford) on 3/8/1884 at about age 45. He had arrived (free) on the Tartar in 1862. As his widow ("of good character"), she was granted poor relief and rations upon his death. | She died on 23/2/1911 at about age 67 in Perth, and was buried in Karrakatta cemetery. A notice appeared in the West Australian about it (3/3/1911). |