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| First Name | Last Name | Date of Birth | Native Place | Parents | Religion | Ship Name | Family | Other Details | Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Keane | c. 1832 | Michael and Mary nee Cormick, sister of Honora. | RC | Travancore | Married William Scott (TIL), 16/9/1854 at Pullen's Farm near Albany; had 10 children. | Farmed Albany, Kendenup and Norlup (Blackwood), which was on the road between Albany and Bunbury; was listed by Salvado in Albany 1854. | Died in Bunbury 25/9/1875; article in the West Australian Times (15/10/1875). | |
| 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 | |||
| 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. | |
| Eliza | Lanagan, Langan | 1830 | Louth | Patrick | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married Charles Lewis/Lowes in Toodyay, 8/6/1857. They had 3 children: John Patrick Lewis (1858-?), Julia Mary Lewis (1862-?) and Maria Elizabeth (Lewis) Moriarty (1866-1945). She remarried Francis Best in Bridgetown, 18/5/1878 | Died in Bridgetown on 15/7/1904 (aged about 73) | ||
| Bridget | Landy | 1850 | Richard and Margaret | RC | Strathmore (January 1869) | She married expiree James Austin McDermott (1/4/1872), and they had 2 children: John (1873, Toodyay) and Mary Ann (1875, Northampton, died at 2 months). Married Joseph Lovatt on 17/10/1880 in Northampton; children: Elizabeth Veronica and Josephine Mary. | Her first husband McDermott was a carpenter, boatman, miner, sawyer, and teamster. In 1876, it was rumoured that Bridget was already living with Lovatt, and in April that year, McDermott was accused of assault after a fight broke out with her over this. | ||
| Jude | Leahy | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married Denis Connell (TIL) in Vasse/Busselton, 1856; they had 7 children. | Left Denis mid-1887, as he was experiencing mental health problems and later committed suicide; covered in the Inquirer and Commercial News 28/9/1887; she emigrated from Ardoughter; they farmed at Ludlow. | Died 1911. | ||
| Mary | Leonard | 1839 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree Philip Wall, 1/1/1870 in Geraldton (Wesly). He had a wife and child in the UK. He and Mary had 3 children: Henry (born and died 1871, Greenough), Hannah (born 1874, Dongara, died at 6 months), and Helena (born and died 1877, Dongara). | Philip Wall worked as a carpenter in Irwin (1870s); he was admitted to Mt Elize invalid depot with bad eyes (1888) and his wife applied for relief funds. He died in Perth Old Men’s Home in 1904. | ||||
| Joanna/Johannah | Ling/Link | Daniel and Johanna/Joanna Lisson | Shanghai | Married expiree Joseph Miles on 2/5/1857 in Perth. He was born in 1830 (England), the son of Thomas Miles and Sara Simpson, and had arrived on the Sea Park in April 1854. Joseph later married Maria Robinson on 28 November 1876 at Perth, Western Australia, | |||||
| Eliza | Mace | 1842 | Strathmore (1864) | She married William Waldock/Waldeck in 1865. Their son Edwin was born 4/4/1866. | |||||
| Sarah | Maguire | 1845 | John and Rani Maguire | Strathmore (June 1864) | Married expiree Alexander Wilson (26/10/1864) in Perth; he had arrived on the William Hammond (March 1856); they had 8 children: Augustus Lyons Wilson, Theodore, Alexander, Thomas, Louisa, Augustine, Roderick. | Sarah and Alex lived on Barrack Street in the 1860s, where they owned a furniture factory. He made the furniture and she did the upholstery. He was given 6 months hard labor in November 1883 for assaulting her. | Died on 13/8/1928, aged 83 years, and there was a notice of her death the following day in the West Australian. | ||
| Mary | Mahon, Mahoney | 1821 | Kilkenny | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married expiree Thomas Weaver on 16/2/1857 in York. Weaver left the colony for South Australia on the Armistice from Fremantle on 14/6/ 1875. | ||||
| Annie | Mahoney | 1860 | Lady Louisa | ||||||
| Ellen | Mahony | c. 1828 | Maurice. | RC | Travancore | Married Thomas Morrow in Beverley, 17/3/1854; they had 4 children. | Emigrated from Clashmealcon; listed by Salvado in York, 1854, ; left for South Australia c. 1855; Thomas was a dairyman in Ross Creek, Kapunda. | Died 2/1/1916 in Ross Creek. | |
| Bridget | Manton | 1866 | Lady Louisa | ||||||
| Biddy | Mara | c.1831 | William and Mary nee Davaney | RC | Travancore | Married Francis Yates 17/12/1854 and April 1857 RC PHB Toodyay; 3 children. | Listed by Salvado in Toodyay (as Marah), 1854; was at the depot there 1853/54; farmed Irishtown via Northam; Yates died in 1908. | Died 7/7/1907. | |
| Margaret | Masterton | 1834 | Strathmore (1864) | Departed for Melbourne on the 23/11/1866 on the Gem, under the name Miss Masterson. | |||||
| Catherine | McBride | 1840 | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married George Edward Stubberfield in Middle Swan, 16/4/1863. They had 2 children: John Edgar Stubberfield (1864-1875) and George Stubberfield (born and died in 1866). | She was employed in Arthur River | Died on 16/6/1869 at about age 29 in Perth | |||
| Mary | McBride, McBryde | 1836 | Dublin | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married widower John Allison in Bunbury, 28/11/1856. They had one child: Ellen (1857, Picton, Bunbury). | John Allison had been a member of the 21st Regiment (the 21st (Royal North British Fuzileers), and had arrived in WA in September 1833. He married Esther Price in 1855 (Bunbury), and they had one child, Esther (born 1856). He died in August 1875. | |||
| Johanna, Johannah | McCarthy | 1839 | Ireland | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | Married Richard Saunders Bell in Albany, 1/4/1865. They had 8 children: Sarah Ellen, Elijah Richard, Robert Saunders, Mary Saunders, Luke Saunders, John John Saunders, Martha Saunders, Elizabeth "Von". | She was a laundry maid, and her husband was a Parkhurst boy. He became a farmer in the Nelson district by 1867, and worked as a teamster with his sons. The family took over the Exchange hotel in Katanning. | She died on 12/10/ 1925 in Katanning and is buried in the town's cemetery in the Catholic section. A notice appeared in the Southern Districts Advocate (Kattanning) on the day of her death. Her husband had died in 1918. | |
| Annie | McDonnell | 1855 | RC | Lady Louisa | |||||
| Julia | McDonnell | 1825 | Dublin | Berkshire (March 1855) | |||||
| Margaret | McElligott | c. 1832 | Travancore | Emigrated from Clahane. | |||||
| Catherine | McGough | 1840 | Michael and Jane | Strathmore (1864) | Married (in 1866) expiree John Maher (arrived Phoebe Dunbar, 1853). Children: Margaret Maher Searle (1867-1949), John Maher (1869–1942), Ann Maher Holland (1872–1937), Ellen Teresa Maher Inge (1874–1971), Michael Patrick Maher (1879–1966). | Catherine's father had already been transported to WA, and she was sent out after him. Her husband John was possibly first married to an Aboriginal woman named Kitty, and had a son who later lived in New Norcia. | She died on 5/8/1925 (aged 86–87) in Wagin, and was buried in Wagin Cemetery. | ||
| Margaret | McGrory | 1865 | RC | Lady Louisa | |||||
| Margaret | McGuinnes, McGuinness | 1865 | Her father was Patrick, a plumber | RC | Lady Louisa | She married Henry Prattey/Pratley on 13/8/1884, RC. He was born in 1863, son of John (labourer). He arrived on 16/9/1881 on the Charlotte Padbury from London. Married Margaret on 13/8/1884 in C/E Perth. Children all baptised at RC Perth: Sarah Anne (1885) | Prately was nominated by Padbury. Carter and bus proprietor, based in Perth. | ||
| Honoria | McMahon | 1848 | Strathmore (January 1869) | She married expiree William Whelan, 6/1/1871 in Perth (?) | |||||
| Margaret | McManus | 1833 | Donegal | Bernard and Susan | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married expiree James Allen on 4/8/1856 in Perth. He had arrived on the Ramillies (1854). Allen died in a wagon accident near Narrogin on 22/3/1882. | Allen had also begun a relationship in 1857 with Ann Eliza Baliff, with whom he had children. | ||
| Catherine | McNamara | c.1834 | Co Limerick | James and Lizzie | RC | Travancore | Married William Watson in Northam, 16/9/1858; 11 children. | Listed by Salvado in Bunbury 1854; farmed Jannapullin; Watson died 1898. | Died 17/4/1896 in 'Belgrove', Jennapullin; buried in Northam. |
| Mary Ann | McQuinn | 1846 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree James Grace, 6/1/1870 in Guildford RC. He was born in 1839, and convicted of culpable homicide (court martial), 22/1/1864 in Meerut, India. He arrived on the Corona (21/12/1866). | |||||
| Biddy | Meagher | 1832 | Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married John Carroll in York (CE:23/3/1856) (RC:10/9/1856) Married Thomas Atkinson 1869 | Aka Bridget Maher.Carroll died in accident Jan 1866. Had 5 children with him and 4 with Atkinson. He died 1880 (accident) | 28/9/1931 in Northam | |
| Catherine | Meara (Maher) | c. 1834 | Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married William Herrick (TIL) in Fremantle, 18/4/1856; they had 2 children. | Went to Adelaide; was witness (with Thomas Pennyfather, who married Eliza Mara) to marriage of Mary/Marian O'Brien to William Shearn in Perth, 26/3/1853). | Died in 1892 in Adelaide. | |
| Eliza | Meara/Mara | c. 1832 | Co Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married Thomas Pennyfather (RC, PHB) in Perth, 1/5/1853; witnesses were fellow passengers Patrick and Catherine McNamara; 7 children. | Thomas was a sawyer at Toodyay and a farmer at York, Toodyay and Narrogin; he died in 1883 in an accident with a horse and dray. | Died at her residence 'Mackie Bridge' at the age of 49 (carcoma of the stomach), 21/6/1882; notice in the eastern Districts Chronicle, 7/7/1882. | |
| Bridget | Mintagh | 1865 | RC | Lady Louisa | Married Frederick Kelly on 8/2/1886 | ||||
| Biddy | Molony | c.1831 | John and Anna nee Scott of Limerick | RC | Travancore | Married Thomas Pursell in Fremantle, 8/9/1853 RC; 5 children including 2 sets of twins. | Lived in Fremantle; Thomas was possibly a police constable in Fremantle and geraldton. | ||
| Mary | Mooney | 1838 or 1841 | Laurence (late of the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers) and Alice | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | Married enrolled pensioner guard Daniel O'Connell on 11/6/1863 (Albany). They had 7 children: John, Mary Elizabeth, Daniel Frank, Joseph James, Thomas Daniel, Anne Agnes, and Frances Theresa. | From 1865, Daniel O'Connell was a police officer stationed in Albany, Gordon River, Fremantle, Greenough, Williams, York, Roebourne, Coolgardie and Northam. Mary was a postmistress at Gordon River (the Perth-Albany Road). | She died on 14/6/1909 in Perth and is buried in the RC section of Karrakatta cemetery. (Daniel died in Perth in November 1922 and is buried in the same cemetery.) | |
| Rose, Rosa | Moore | 1830 | Dublin | William (a victualler) and Mary | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married expiree William Joseph Evans on 10/12/1855 (RC rites), and they had a daughter, Alice Mary Evans (Goddin), born 1863. | Her husband was a shepherd (1860s) at 'Kendenup' in Plantagenet District for Hassell and at 'Yerriminup' at Frankland River, before becoming a small farmer. | Rosa died on 22/7/1894 (aged 64–65) at Frankland, Cranbrook Shire, and was buried at Lake Poorrarecup (headstone). Her husband had died in 1893 in the same location. |
| Mary | Moriarty | 1834 | Strathmore (1864) | ||||||
| Mary | Mulcoony | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | |||||
| Biddy | Mulqueen | c.1834 | Askeaton, Co Limerick | John and Catherine nee Sommers | RC | Travancore | Married James Hislop in Bunbury, 6/10/1853 civil and 22/10/1853 RC; they had 11 children and he was a TIL man; witnesses to the RC wedding were William White and C17 Catherine McNamara. | Listed by Salvado in 1854, Bunbury; lived in Bunbury and Quindalup; James was a schoolteacher in Bunbury 1853-1861, then a clerk 1861-c. 1870 in Quindalup, and a publican in Bunbury 1886-1890; she was a boarding house proprietress in Bunbury 'Beach House' | She died 3/4/1907 at the 'Beach House'; article in the Southern Times, 6/4/1907. |