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| First Name | Last Name | Date of Birth | Native Place | Parents | Religion | Ship Name | Family | Other Details | Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Ellen | Murphy | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married John Ryan (TIL) in York, 16/2/1857; had 9 children. | Listed consecutively on passenger list and in York in 1854 by Salvado with B25 Mary Murphy, possibly sisters; husband was a farmer 'Brookfield' Bowes River, Northampton; storekeeper 1875. | Died 13/2/1906; story in the Geraldton Express, 19/2/1906. | ||
| Mary | Murphy | c.1832 | John | RC | Travancore | Married Thomas Otway in York, 11/3/1854; had 8 children. | Listed on passenger list and at York, 1854 by Salvado with Ellen Murphy (possibly sisters); husband was farmer and grazier in York at 'Tillabidden' West Dale, near Beverley; he died on 26/6/1875. | She died in 1910; article in the eastern Districts Chronicle (17/6/1910); died at son's residence in West Dale. | |
| Mary | Murphy | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married David Drewett in York, 3/1/1856; 1 child. | Emigrated from Clashmealcon; he was a farmer in York; went to South Australia. | |||
| Sarah | Murphy | 1850 | Strathmore (January 1869) | ||||||
| Mary | Murray | 1855 (possibly 1863) | David Murray | RC | Lady Louisa | Married Carl/Karl Varian in 1884. He was born in Guildford (16/4/1864), son of William Varian and Ellen Sheen. He died on 1/4/1944 in Perth Hospital. | Mary died in 1938 at the age of 75. | ||
| Elizabeth | Neaves, Naven | 1832 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married expiree William Woollams on 26/12/1853 in Fremantle, and they had a daughter Louisa Elizabeth Woollams Gilbert (1857-1921), as well as another daughter who married Mr J Craig. | She was listed as a domestic servant. Her husband died on 14/9/1915 in East Fremantle (at the home of his son-in-law Mr J Craig), and according to an article in the Western Mail (24/9/1915), his wife was already dead. | |||
| Ellen | Neill | 1847 | Strathmore (January 1869) | ||||||
| Julia | Nolan | 1847 | Nicholas | RC | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married Thomas Bogue (25/7/1871) in Fremantle RC. | Thomas was a chief constable, possibly in Irwin (1875). | Julia, Thomas and their 3 children died during a shipwreck of the Rosette off the North west coast (24/1/1879 or 25/1/1879) when returning south. | |
| Mary | Noon, Noonan | c. 1834 | Ireland | Patrick and Cath (nee Shiel) | RC | Palestine (April 1853) | Married Michael Lally on 16/2/1858 in Perth. Their children were: Dennis (1859-1860), Michael (born and died 1861), William Patrick (1864-1886)and Mary Ann (1868-1870) | Michael Lally was a police constable. He died on 6/5/1916. | She died 19/2/1879 in Perth and was buried at East Perth cemetery |
| Margaret | Norbury | 1846 | Strathmore (1864) | Married expiree (?) Alfred Thompson on 26/6/1865. He arrived either on the Dalhousie (28/12/1863), or the Dudbrook (10/2/1853). | |||||
| Anne | O'Brien | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married John Robinson in Fremantle, 23/7/1856; they had 1 child. | He died on 29 January 1888 at the Mount Eliza Invalid depot, of chronic bronchitis; he had arrived there in September 1886; there was an article about it in the Inquirer and Commercial News, 1/2/1888. | |||
| Mary | O'Brien | c. 1832 | Limerick | James and Margaret nee Moore of Limerick | RC | Travancore | Married James Wood in Toodyay, 12/8/1854 CE and 18/4/1856 RC; they had 9 children. | Listed for emigration from the Limerick Workhouse in September 1852; listed by Salvado in Toodyay, 1854; at the Toodyay Depot Aug 1853-July 1854; lived in newcastle/Toodyay; James was a shoemaker, built 'Victoria Hotel' and store. | She died 9/3/1908; there was an article in the Newcastle Herald and Toodyay District Chronicle, 14/3/1908. |
| Mary | O'Brien | c. 1831 | John | RC | Travancore | Married William Shearn in Perth, 26/3/1853, RC; had 2 children; he was a TIL man. | Listed for emigration from Limerick Workhouse, September 1852; listed by Salvado 1854 in York; lived in Toodyay/Northam 1860; left for South Australia 1868. | ||
| Catherine | O'Connell | 1827 | Dublin | Henry (an attorney). | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married James Clinch in New Norcia on 9/12/1853, and they had 6 children: Emma Jane, William Henry, Alfred James, Mary Ellen, Frederick William and Elizabeth. | James Clinch was a pastoralist and farmer in Moora ('Berkshire Valley'); he built a substantial homestead and outbuildings, and he died in 1899. | She died on 17/8/1908 at about age 81 in West Guildford. There was an article in the Western Mail, which said she had lived in the Victoria Plains district for more than 50 years. | |
| Bridget | O'Doherty | 1849 | Strathmore (January 1869) | ||||||
| Ellen | O'Donnell | 1841 | Burlington (April 1863) | Married widower and expiree George Tellett on 12/8/1864 in Fremantle, and they had one son, also named George, born the same year. | Her husband George Tellett arrived on the Lord Raglan in May 1858, and claimed to be married with 2 children. In WA, he married Ellen McKay (from Belfast) in 1861, before remarrying, to Ellen O'Donnell. He left the colony for NSW in 1873. | ||||
| Bridget | O'Flaherty | 1849 | RC | Strathmore (January 1869) | |||||
| Mary | O'Keefe, O'Truffe | 1866 | RC | Lady Louisa | Travelled in steerage. | ||||
| Hannah, Honora | O'Malley | 1850 | Ireland | RC | Tartar (14/1/1868) | Married expiree William Bone in Greenough (18/5/1875), and they had 9 children: William Arthur, George John, Anne Elizabeth, James Henry, Mary Jane, Theresa, Bridget Mary, Margaret and Rachel. | William Bone died in 1888 (drowned in flood waters at Greenough while looking for his two sons who survived). After this, Hannah married Arthur Blayney in Geraldton, 1890. | She died on 8/6/1937 in Geraldton. | |
| Sr Mary Gertrude | O'Meara | RC | Lady Louisa | Came from the (Sisters of) Mercy community in Birr, and had been professed for more than 30 years. She was in charge of the Irish migrants on Lady Louisa, and was known as the 'floating abbess'. Girls in her charge had been selected by Sister M.A Kelli o | |||||
| Sarah Deborah | Pielow (also Picton) | 1846 | John (farmer) | C/E | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married Henry Makaals on 3/6/1874 in Fremantle Church of England establishment. | Died in 1934. | ||
| Eleanor | Preston | 1868 | RC | Lady Louisa | |||||
| Eliza | Quin | 1835 | Tipperary | Sabrina (June 1853) | She arrived with her sister Mary. | ||||
| Mary | Quin, Quinn | 1823 | Tipperary | Sabrina (June 1853) | She arrived with her sister Eliza. On 24/1/1856 she married expiree John Rodgers in Dardanup, and they had 10 children: Bridget Louisa, Martin, James Joseph, John Arthur, Daniel, Mary Jane, Catherine, Margaret, Daniel and Margaret. | Her husband John was also Irish, from Ogonoloe, County Clare, and he also arrived in 1853, on the Robert Small. | Mary died in 1905 at about age 71 in South Bunbury. John Rodgers died on 18/6/1917 in Leederville. | ||
| Margaret | Quinlin | c. 1833 | James (a farmer) | RC | Travancore | Married Joseph William Broomfield/Bloomfield in York, 12/3/1856; they had 6 children. | Emigrated from Clashmealcon; was a domestic servant; Joseph was a labourer in York; he was also described as extremely religious and unbalanced in his behaviour; was finally declared insane and placed in an asylum, while Margaret had a stroke. | Died 27/8/1909 | |
| Mary | Quinn | c. 1831 | Co Clare | Patrick and Bridget nee McCarthy | RC | Travancore | Married John Daniel Rodgers at Thomas Little's house, Dardanup, 24/1/1856, RC. He was TIL. | Had 10 children; was listed by Salvado in 1854 in Bunbury; was a servant and lived in Dardanup, Belvedere, Australind and Bunbury. | Notice of her death in the Bunbury Herald, 24/7/1905. |
| Biddy | Ralph | c. 1834 | RC | Travancore | |||||
| Rose | Ratigan | 1844 | Strathmore (June 1864) | Worked as a factory hand in England. She was recorded at Toodyay in 1870 (stole glasses from a Mrs Gregg, and was charged with being drunk and disorderly). | |||||
| Honora | Rea | 1827 | Doneraile, Co Cork | RC | Travancore | Married Thomas Abbs Cook (22/6/1857) in Fremantle. He was a blacksmith, lived cnr Norfolk and Fitzgerald streets (Freo), 9 children. | Had lived with 3 maiden ladies in Ireland, arrived with a letter from Mrs Sutherland (nee Bussell) | 28/11/1903 in Fremantle | |
| Mary Ann | Reardon | 14/5/1833 | Tipperary | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married Philip McGuire in a private home in Albany, 20/11/1853. They had 13 children: Margaret, Marianne, Catherine, John, Elizabeth, Ellen, Thomas Phillip, Ann Jane, Arthur James, Henry, William George, Philip and Joseph Phillip. | Philip McGuire was from Enniskillen in Ireland, and arrived in WA on 28/06/1851 by the sailing ship Pyrenees as an Enrolled Pensioner Guard. | She died on 6/8/1917 at about age 84 in Highgate. Her husband had died on 10/1/1905 at about age 78 in Albany. | |
| Biddy | Reddin | 1832 | Co Kerry | RC | Travancore | Married Edmund Cahill in York (CE:24/11/1855) (RC:1856). They had nine children, 6 sons and 3 daughters. | Aka Bridget Reading. Edmund died April 1895: he was a convict from Tipperary, Ireland who arrived in Fremantle on 19/8/1853 per the 'Robert Small' along with his brother Joseph. It is known that Bridget and Edmund lived at Daliak York in 1870 and 1872. Th | 20/6/1913 in Perth. | |
| Mary | Reddin | c.1829 | Kerry, Ireland | RC | Travancore | Married (as Mary Reading) William Linto in York (1853). She was sister to Bridget/Biddy Reddin, who also arrived on the Travancore. | |||
| Bessie, Elizabeth | Reilly | 1831, 1832 | Dublin | Thomas | Sabrina (June 1853) | Arrived with her sister Catherine. Bessie married widower John Peters Okely on 7/1/1855. They had 5 children: Thomas Charles, Christopher Wiperman, Arabella Jane, Francis and Edward. | John Okely was a colonial who arrived in 1833/34, after being born in Bristol. He was a baker, and had previously been married to Caroline Flaherty, with whom he had 8 children. She had died in 1853. he died on 14/6/1884 in Perth. | She died in Perth on 5/11/1906 (aged 74–75), and is buried in the East Perth cemetery. | |
| Catherine | Reilly | 1834 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | She arrived with her sister Bessie. Married (Dr?) William Brown in Perth, 1863 (11/11/1863) | ||||
| Deborah | Riordan | 1849 | Strathmore (January 1869) | She married John McDonald, an expiree (?) on 6/9/1869 in Geraldton (Wesley). He was a boot and shoemaker (1865) and wheelwright. |