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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 | 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 | |||||
| Mary Ann | Purtill (also Purtle) | 1836 | Kilkenny | Edmund and Ann (?) | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married Frederick Walter Gee, 13/4/1857 in New Norcia. They had 4 children (Charles, Alfred, Hannah, Arthur) and lived in Camden Harbour, where Walter was a policeman. He died after being speared by some Aboriginal people. | Worked as a domestic servant at Glentromie (Victoria Plains). Mary Ann gave birth to a daughter of the same name shortly after her first husband died. She remarried, to John James McKenna (19/12/1867) and had 3 children: Elizabeth, John and Helen. | She died 1883 and was buried in the Skinner St Cemetery, Fremantle. | |
| 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. | |||||
| Susannah | Roach | 1864 | John | RC | Lady Louisa | Susannah married Michael Griffin (son of William) on 27/8/1883 (Perth RC). | |||
| Mary | Roach | 1867 | John and Anna of Kildare | RC | Lady Louisa | Married expiree James Keilley/Keely on 2/10/1883. He was the last of the 'Hougoumont' Fenians (arrived on that ship on 9/1/1868). He had been born in Ireland in 1841, and convicted in Dublin of not informing on a mutiny. He lived in the Swan, York and Pe | Her husband James died in Nedlands on 31 October, 1918, and he is buried at Karrakatta cemetery. He was also a widower, with 2 children. | ||
| Margaret | Rowland | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married Philip McGowan in Australind, 3/4/1854; had 7 children. | Listed by Salvado in Australind, 1854 under Margaret Ronayne; Philip was employed by Clifton January 1854; later farmed Boyanup. | She died 30/6/1871 in Boyanup, killed by Aboriginal man named Harry; article in the Herald, 8/7/1871. | ||
| Catherine | Ryan | c. 1832 | Ireland | RC | Travancore | Married expiree Thomas John Green, 22/6/1858 in York; had 7 children. | Listed by Salvado 1854 in Toodyay; listed at Toodyay Emigration Depot 1853/54 and employed by Donald McPherson' Thomas was a bootmaker in Toodyay and Perth; he was convicted for larceny again in 1874. | ||
| Honora | Ryan | c. 1833 | Thurles, Tipperary | John and Julia nee Fogarty | RC | Travancore | Married Daniel Ryan, 14/5/1855 in Fremantle; had 9 children. | Was in Toodyay c. 1860; went to Victoria and later Queensland; Daniel Ryan died in 1920 (aged 93, after amn accident). | Died 27/10/1909 in Ayre, Queensland. |
| Judith | Ryan | c. 1832 | Travancore | ||||||
| Margaret | Ryan | c. 1833 | RC | Travancore | Married William Merry in Toodyay, 14/8/1854; had 6 children. | Listed at Toodyay Migrant Depot August 1853-July 1854; listed in the York census 1859; farmed Northam and 'Thistle Farm' in Meckering; Merry died in 1897. | She died 1906; buried in RC section of Karrakatta; notice in the West Australian, 22/6/1906. | ||
| Julia | Sandes | 1844 | Strathmore (January 1869) | ||||||
| Mary | Saul | 1865 | RC | Lady Louisa | |||||
| Helen (possibly Anne) | Saul | 1867 | James | RC | Lady Louisa | Helen married Maurice Williams on 27/5/1893 in York RC | |||
| Maria Elizabeth | Shackell | 1853 | Middlesex, England | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree John Ellis (17/11/1873); he had been transported on the Hougoumont (1868). They had one child: Emma Ellis (1874-1943). | She died on 27 February 1941 in Subiaco (aged 88). | |||
| Mary | Sheakin | c. 1832 | Limerick | Cornelius | RC | Travancore | Married James Pearce in Bunbury, 10/7/1854 RC; they had 8 children. | Lived in Greenough; he was a stonemason and farmer who died in 1879. | Mary died 9/7/1901, buried in Walkaway cemetery. |
| Ellen (also Helen) | Sheen, Shean, Sheehan | 1843 | Patrick | RC | Burlington (April 1863) | Married expiree William Varian in Guildford on 4/10/1863, and had 8 children: Karl Allen Theodore, Augustus Francis Patrick, Clarence William Augustine, St John James Theobald, Isadore Adelaide Vanning, Edward, Hillary Eurie Adrian and Vincent | William Varian appeared on the Electoral Roll for Perth County (Lincoln Street) in 1903, and died on 3/8/1904 in Subiaco (was buried in Karrakatta cemetery). | She died on 10/8/1919 at about age 80 in Subiaco, and was buried in the RC section of Karrakatta cemetery; there was a notice in the West Australian (11/8/1919). | |
| Mary | Sheppard | c. 1833 | RC | Travancore | Witness to marriage of C6 Mary Cherry to Joseph Bobbin in Fremantle, 28/8/1853. | ||||
| Johannah, Jane | Sheridan | 1834 | Dublin | Thomas | RC | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married expiree William Smith, son of William on 3/10/1853. | Smith was a greengrocer in Barrack Street in the 1870s. | |
| Esther | Shorthill | 1841 | Patrick | RC | Strathmore (June 1864) | Married expiree George Woodcock (9/5/1865). He had arrived on the Nile (1858). They had eight children: Omar (1866, Albany), Clarence Patrick, (1867, Albany) Mary (1868, Albany) Nicholas (1870, Albany), Raymond Joseph (1875, Per | Her husband George Woodcock was a notorious prisoner (the 'Yorkshire Cracksman'), and served several stints in prison (1850s-1870s). In 1876, he was charged with a serious assault on Esther. He died on 18/5/1909 after a suicide attempt. | Esther died on 5 March 1907, at the age of 76. She was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery. There was an article in the Western Mail (9/3/1907) which described her as an 'old colonist' who had arrived in colony 46 years prior. | |
| Ann | Smith | 1829 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | Married colonial Thomas Drewett in York, 1854 (9/2/1854). | ||||
| Mary | Spillane | c. 1832 | Nenagh, Co Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Soon after arrival, she became a domestic for the Sisters of Mercy; later she became a nun in the order, Sr M Teresa, and worked with the children of the orphanage for the rest of her life. | |||
| Eliza Ann | Stapleton | Sabrina (June 1853) | She died on 5/9/1853 in Perth and is buried in the East Perth cemetery. According to 'Find a Grave', she died of consumption. | ||||||
| Mary | Street | 1852 | RC | Strathmore (January 1869) | A child was born to Mary in 1870. The following year, she married John (James) Charles Bowman/Burman (24/6/1871, Perth RC). | She was a domestic servant at the workhouse in 1870. Her husband was a carpenter in Roebourne (1873-74). | |||
| Catherine | Stundon | c. 1827 | Thomas | RC | Travancore | Married William Robinson (TIL) at Pinjarra Court House, 19/12/1853; they had 3 children. | Emigrated from Kilmore; was employed by Mrs Lewis in Serpentine; William was a farm servant at Dandalup, employed by Sutton and lived in Halls Cottage in Mandurah, then was a farmer in Serpentine. | Catherine died 24/6/1914;there was an article in the Sunday Times about her on the 12/7/1914. | |
| Mary Anne | Sullivan | 1850 | John Sullivan | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree William Joseph Aubrey in York (24/8/1871). They had 10 children: Isabella Allen, John Patrick, William, Mary Margaret, Thomas James, Charles Henry, Agnes Jane, Joseph Patrick, Ernest James, and Edward Walter George. | Her son Joseph William Aubrey (born as Joseph Patrick in 1889, twin brother of Agnes Jane) died in France during WWI (Wimmereux, October 1917). | Died in 1919, six years after her husband William. | ||
| Mary Ann | Taylor | 1835 | Castleblakeney, Co Galway | Martin Taylor, Dorothy Fahey | RC | Palestine | Married Henry Batty on 29/11/1853 in Toodyay Church of England; remarried Dec 1856 (RC). Sons William and John. Daughter Catherine born 1858/59 near New Norcia. (Died 1859) De facto with Henry Beard by 1860. Together with free settler William Marwick 1865 | Walked with other girls to Toodyay, 7th August. | Died in York, 16 July, 1926 |
| Hannah (Honoria, May Ann) | Teevan | 1840 | Meath | Patrick and Angela | RC | Strathmore (June 1864) | She married fellow passenger Daniel Hogarty/Hagarty, also from Ireland (21/10/1865). He nominated her brother James and SIL Eliza as migrants. | Hannah was Post Mistress from 1869 and telegraph operator from 1875. Her husband, who was a police constable in the Williams district Beaufort River (1867), died on 3/12/1875. | |
| Anny | Toohy | c. 1833 | Nenagh, Co Tipperary | Michael. | RC | Travancore | Married William White (who had arrived with his parents) RC in York, 19/5/1853; had 9 children. | Listed by Salvado in Northam, 1854; farmed at Yarramony via Northam. | Died 17/2/1908. |
| Catherine | Tracey | 1834 | Clare | Sabrina (June 1853) | Last listed as a farm servant from Clare | Died in Perth in 1863. | |||
| Eleanor | Tully | 1829 | RC | Travancore | Married Henry Rush in Perth (1853), 2 children. Married William Walker in Guildford (2/4/1859). He changed his name to Davis at the time of marriage, 8 children. | Davis killed himself while insane on 26/5/1858. They lived in Guildford and York districts. | Sawyers Valley, 19/4/1895, buried East Perth cemetery | ||
| Catherine | Tuoy | c. 1833 | Co Limerick | RC | Travancore | Married Henry Offer (CP), 17/7/1854 (CE) and 14/12/1854 (RC in Bunbury; they 10 children. | Emigrated from Kilmore; was sister of D26 Mary Tuoy; was a servant to MW Clifton in Australind; listed by Salvado in 1854 (at Bunbury); offer also worked for Clifton in Australind, then farmed at Benger. | Catherine died in Benger, 12/5/1915; there was an obituary in the Southern Times, 13/5/1915. | |
| Mary | Tuoy | c. 1830 | Edward. | RC | Travancore | Married Charles Allen (TIL) before 1859 in Australind; had 1 child; 2nd marriage to expiree William Proctor in Bunbury8/4/1862; they had 2 children. | Sister to D25, Catherine Tuoy; emigrated from Kilmore; was listed at Australind by Salvado in 1854; worked for Clifton in Australind; was arrested for infanticide in 1859, but discharged for lack of evidence; Story in Perth Gazette & Independent Journ | Died in Perth Public Hospital, 24/2/1905. |