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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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| Elizabeth | Finn or Fynn | 11/4/1839 (?) | Limerick (?) | John | RC | Shanghai | She married expiree George Davidson Moffatt/Murphett on 8/4/1858 or 12/4/1858 in York. They had 4 children: Louisa Moffatt Whitely (1860-1939), John Campbell Moffatt (1862-1939), George Davidson Moffatt (1865-1932) | She also had siblings Ellen Finn Williams (1835-1895, died in North Fitzroy, Victoria) and Margaret Finn McGuiness (1838-1915, died in Terang, Victoria). | Died on 5/2/1906 in Perth. She was buried in Karrakatta cemetery in the Catholic section. |
| Mary | Fitzgerald | c. 1830 | Maurice and Mary nee Bresnahan of Kilrowey | RC | Travancore | Married Henry Thomas, 9/1/1855 RC PHB in York; had 6 children. | Emigrated from Ardoughter; listed by Salvado 1854 in Albany; lived in York. | ||
| Julia | Fitzgerald | Ireland | Clara (1857) or Shanghai (1856) | Married Daniel Sullivan on 9/12/1855 (Tralee, Ireland); they had 1 child. She later married (as a widow) Cornelius Murphy on 12/7/1858 (Fremantle). They had 5 children, 4 of which died in early childhood between 1858 and 1863. | Cornelius was an enrolled pensioner guard who arrived on the Lord Raglan (1/61858). He had enrolled in Cork on 6/2/1835, and his pension districts were Cork (1856), WA (1858-1864), NSW (1864-1874), Waterford, Ireland (1874), and Sydney (1875-1879). | Died in 1922 in Fremantle. | |||
| Sarah | Fitzpatrick | 1836 | Ireland | Michael and Bridget nee Culleny | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | She married expiree William Teed on 10/2/1864. He had arrived on the Dudbrook in 1853. | Sarah was the sister of Mary, Johannah and Thomas. Her husband worked for Clinch or Lefroy at Victoria Plain ('Bebano' property). | |
| Mary | Fitzpatrick | 1841 | Ireland | Michael and Bridget | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | She married expiree Patrick Murphy (of Co Limerick) in New Norcia (RC), 2/2/1869, and they had 5 children: Mary, James Thomas, Michael Patrick, Bridget Margaret and Norah. She was sister to Sarah, Johannah and Thomas. | Patrick Murphy died in New Norcia in 1904. he had been a farmer in the Victoria Plains area ('Clare Hills', 'Murphy's Swamp') . | |
| 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. |
| Mary | Glynn | 1848 | Ireland | Bernard ('Nardie') and Mary Gorman | RC | Tartar (14/1/1868) | She married free man Joseph Ridge, 22/8/1869 in Fremantle. He was also Irish, born in Co Galway. They had 3 children: Bridget Delia, Peter Joseph Ridge, and Mary Agnes Ridge. | Their last child Mary Agnes, was born in Carlisle (1876), so they must have left WA by then. (Peter Joseph was born on Rottnest Island.) | She died on 17/10/1878, in Glasgow, Scotland, at the age of 30. Joseph Ridge died on 15/8/1892, also in Glasgow, at the age of 47. |
| 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). | ||||
| Margaret | Hanrahan | 1848 | Margaret | RC | Tartar (14/1/1868) | She married free man Andrew Stewart on 26/9/1869 in Fremantle RC. He was a seaman and policeman in Busselton, and part owner of ship, the 'Belle of Bunbury'. They had 6 children: Andrew John, Mary Jane, James Francis, Daniel, Margaret and Catherine Maria | She was nominated by her sister Johanna, who worked in Guildford. | She died on 25/4/1885 at about age 37 in Bunbury, of heart disease. Notice in the ‘Our Bunbury Letter’ in the West Australian (1885, May 2), noting the sudden nature of her death. Andrew Stewart had died of a similar complaint on 9/1/1882, also aged 3 | |
| 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 | Heffernan, Hefferan | c. 1846-1849 | Ireland | John and Mary Hefferan | RC | Tartar (14/1/1868) | She married enrolled pensioner Patrick Donnelly in Fremantle (8/6/1869). They had 9 children: John Henry, Patrick Thomas, Christopher, Agnes Mary, William Thomas, Charles, Julie, William Joseph, Robert Augustus. | When she arrived, Mary was a 19 year old domestic servant. | She died on 24/8/1932 in West Perth (buried in RC section of Karrakatta cemetery). Her husband had died 25/4/1890 at Wittenoom Street Perth (was buried at East Perth cemetery). |
| 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. |