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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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| 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. | ||
| 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) |
| Catherine | Horgan | 1830 | Tartar (14/1/1868) | She married James Augustus Cooper (AKA Sadler) in Roebourne, 1873. He had arrived in 1862, was involved in mining leases, then later pearling at Cossack. | |||||
| Margaret | Houlahan | 1833 | Clare | James | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married William Henry Smith in Fremantle on 30/12/1868. | Listed as a domestic servant from Clare | ||
| 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. |
| Ann, Anne | James, Games | 1830, 1837 | Ireland | Matthew | Emma Eugenia (May 1858) | She married expiree John (Glover) Hasson in Toodyay on 1/2/1859. He had arrived on the Minden (October 1851), after a conviction for robbery in Glasgow. They had 4 children: Matilda Jane, Edward Glover, William Wallace and Matilda Glover. | John Glover Hasson died in Toodyay on on 9/6/1893 and is buried in the town’s cemetery. He had been a tailor, taking a bolt of cloth each season to work up during shearing in Victoria Plains District. Ann had been a midwife in Toodyay. | Ann died in a drowning accident on 19/1/1898 at about age 61 in Toodyay, falling faint while collecting water from a well. A death notice was published in The Northam Advertiser (22/1/1898). | |
| 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 | |||
| Alicia, Alice | Joyce | 1838, or 1828 | Limerick | RC | Esmeralda (October 1854) | Married expiree John McNie in York, 1856 (under Alice Joyce). They had one daughter, Margaret (born York, 1857). | The family appears to have left the colony for South Australia, but not before 1859, when John McNie was recorded in the census at his own property in York. | ||
| 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). | |
| Mary | Kavanagh | 1835 | Dublin | Michael and Elizabeth | Sabrina (June 1853) | Came out with her sister Margaret. Married Frederick Peacock in Perth on 28/4/1855. | First settled in Northam | Died in Quellington York on 3/11/1905. | |
| Margaret | Kavanagh | 1829 | Dublin | Michael and Elizabeth. | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived with her sister Mary. She married expiree Joseph Bryant on 13/4/1854. He died at sea in 1870, and she lived as de facto to expiree Francis Donaldson, who had a wife and child in England. | |||
| Mary | Kealy | 1830 | Kilkenny | Sabrina (June 1853) | According to the passenger list for Sabrina, she was 23 years old. | ||||
| Mary | Keane | c. 1832 | Michael and Mary nee Cormick, sister of Honora. | RC | Travancore | She married William Scott near Albany in 1854. They had 12 children: William James, George Burn, William, Ellen, Walter John, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Elizabeth, Amelia, Rebecca, Joseph, Arthur and Celenia. | William Scott was one of the first settlers of the Boyup Brook area: constructing the homestead 'Norlup' at Scotts Brook, south of the town. | Died in Bunbury 25/9/1875; article in the West Australian Times (15/10/1875). William had died in 1881 in Albany. | |
| Ann | Keating | 1835 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | According to the passenger list for Sabrina, Ann was an 18-year old domestic servant from Dublin. | ||||
| Mary | Keleher | 1829 | Ireland | Berkshire (March 1855) | Listed as a servant | ||||
| Ellen/Helen | Kelly | 1836 | Ireland | Patrick | Shanghai or Clara | She married expiree Nathaniel Reader on 9/6/1857 in Toodyay. He had been born in 1822 (son of Nathaniel Richard Reader), and arrived in Western Australia on the William Jardine in August 1852. He died on 1 November 1896 in Toodyay. | She had a sister, Winifred. | ||
| Bridget, Brigid | Kelly, Kelley | 1835 | Kilkenny | RC | Shanghai (November 1856) | She married enrolled pensioner Daniel Jennings in Ireland (1851). Children: Mary Ann (1852, baptised in Kildare), Elizabeth (23/12/1853), William (1855, WA), Bridget (1857, WA), Emily or Emma (1858), Daniel (1860), Harriet/Hattie (1861), Rachael (1863) | Bridget and Daniel married for a second time in Perth (RC, 1857). Children cont: John (1865), Edward (1867), Daniel (1869), Richard (1873), Rachel (1873) | Died on 5/5/1901. She and her husband were buried in East Perth cemetery (RC section). He had died on 27/5/1893 in Perth | |
| Biddy | Kennedy | c. 1832 | Co Tipperary | James and Margaret nee Buckley (Ireland) | RC | Travancore | Married Henry Wilkins in Perth, 24/1/1853 (RC); had 8 children. | Possible sister or relative of B20 Mary Kennedy; Henry also arrived on Travancore; Listed by Salvado 1854 in Toodyay; Henry, Bridget and Jacob Wilkins at Mrs Macnoe's house; he was a labourer in Toodyay and York. | She died on 5/10/1900 in Stirling Street Perth; story in the West Australian on 5/10/1901; written by husband and daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Maria; He died in 1918. |
| Mary | Kennedy | c. 1832 | James and Margaret. | RC | Travancore | Married Thomas Keegan (13/8/1856, Wesley, and 14/9/1856 RC) in York; had one child. | Listed by Salvado in York, 1854. | Died in childbirth, 14/5/1857 in York. | |
| Margaret | Kennedy | 1836 | Wexford | Patrick Murphy, Mary Sinnott | Berkshire (March 1855) | Arrived with her mother and brothers Felix, Patrick, Michael and William. She married expiree Edward O'Dea on 25/9/1859 in Toodyay. They had 10 children. | Children: Mary Ann (1860-1936), Patrick Michael (1862-1927), Michael (1864-1943), Edward (1865-1942), Thomas (1867-1931), John (1869), Eliza (1871), James (1873), William (1873), Margaret (1876) and Anne (1878) | Died on 13/4/1921 in Northam (aged 85). | |
| Catherine | Kensley | 1826 (?) | James and Elizabeth | Shanghai (November 1856) | Married ex-soldier (redcoat) Denis Brennan in Perth, 20/11/1856. They had 7 children: Margarita (1857), James (1859), William (1861), Mary Ann (1863), John Edward (1865), Denis (1867), and George (1869). All born in Perth. | Brennan was a policeman in Champions Bay (1860), then a storekeeper in Perth (1864), with a shop on the corner of Pier and Goderich Street; he then went on to be a grocer and draper (1866), and importer (1873). He died in June 1884. | She died on 9/6/1896 in Perth (Roe Street), with an article appearing in the West Australian on the 25th of that month. She was aged about 70, and was widowed by that time. | ||
| Mary | Kernan | 1837 | Dublin | Berkshire (March 1855) | |||||
| Catherine | Kernan, Kirnan | 1829 or 1835 | Dublin | James and Ann | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married enrolled pensioner guard Denis Hevron/Heffernan on 9/1/1854 in Fremantle. They had 9 children: Patrick James, Mary Ellen, Ann, Dennis William, Catherine, Ambrose James, Patrick John, Louis Sylvester, and Florence. | Her husband was in the 15th regiment, and had served in Canada and Ceylon, He was born c. 1815 in Dungwen Newtown Lamavady (Derry) in Ireland. | She died on 28/11/1910 Fremantle (buried in RC section of the Fremantle cemetery); her husband had died in 1880. |
| Maria | Kilmartin | 1825 | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married Richard Trayhorne in Perth, 3/6/1858. | Her husband Richard died 15/12/1871 after a short illness (aged 67), leaving her destitute. She applied for Government Assistance on numerous occasions, and was recommended for the Poorhouse in 1875. | Died in Perth, 1899, aged about 87 | |||
| Ann | King | 1829 | Dublin | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married William Baker in a Church of England ceremony in Perth (8/12/1853), and another RC one on 17/8/1854. | According to Sabrina's passenger list, Ann was a 24-year old domestic servant from Dublin. | ||
| Mary | Kissane | c. 1827 | Richard and Norah Cashman of Kerry | RC | Travancore | Married John William Godfrey PHB, 13/1/1843 in Perth (RC); had 6 children. | Emigrated from Kilmore; he was a farm labourer in Upper Swan, Toodyay and 167b Roe Street, Perth. | Died 21/6/1898 in Perth Public Hospital and was buried in East Perth Cemetery. |