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| First Name | Last Name | Date of Birth | Native Place | Parents | Religion | Ship Name | Family | Other Details | Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
| Judith | Dwyer | c. 1833 | County Tipperary | Sabrina (June 1853) | Judith arrived on the same ship with her sister Catherine. | On the ship's passenger list, it says she was 20 year old from Tipperary. She had never been in service. | |||
| Catherine | Dwyer | c. 1828 | County Tipperary | Sabrina (June 1853) | Catherine arrived with her sister Judith on the same ship. | According to the ship's passenger list, she was a 25 year old from Tipperary. She had never been in service. | |||
| 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 | |||
| Margaret | Farrell | c. 1830 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | In the ship's passenger list, it said she was a 23 year old domestic servant from Dublin. She was listed in Toodyay in 1854. | ||||
| Ann, Anne | Farrell | c. 1825 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived on the same ship with sisters Bridget and Eliza. Possibly married Patrick McKey in Dardanup (26/6/1855). | ||||
| 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 | |
| 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 |