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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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| 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 | |||
| Anne | Sergeant, Serjeant | 1829, 1830 | Armagh | Sabrina (June 1853) | On Sabrina's passenger list, she was described as a 23-year old domestic servant from Armagh. May have gone to South Australia on the Hamlet (3/2/1854) with Mr Morton and children. | ||||
| Elizabeth | Sergeant, Serjeant | 1836 | Armagh | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married Robert Torbert in Perth on 19/6/1854. | Elizabeth was one of the 22 passengers lost on the Emily Small, which was wrecked on 15/5/1877 off Kangaroo Island en route from King George Sound to Port Adelaide. A Mrs Talbort and child were among the passengers killed in the wreck. | |||
| Mary, May | Sergeant, Serjeant | 1834 | Armagh | Sabrina (June 1853) | Mary was described as a 19-year old dressmaker from Armagh (on Sabrina's passenger list). She travelled to South Australia on the ship Frances (arriving 24/10/1856). | ||||
| 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. | |
| Biddy | Tydings | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married William Tozer 1853 CE and 10/6/1853 RC in Perth; he was a TIL man and they had 4 children. | Lived in Fremantle; William was a shoemaker; he died in the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum in 1885 (article in the Daily News Tuesday 27/1/1885: said it happened the previous Sunday; Also articles in the Inquirer and Commercial News on Wednesday 28/1/1885. | |||
| Catherine | Vaughan | c. 1832 | Ireland | RC | Travancore | Married Charles Marshall in Toodyay, 14/3/1854; he was a TIL man and they had 1 child. | Charles was a farmer and labourer in 'Nunyle', Toodyay. | ||
| Mary | Walsh | 1850 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married Patrick Field, and a child was born in 1870. | She arrived from London. Husband Patrick Field joined the police in 1886, and served in Guildford, Geraldton, Wyndham and Williams. | ||||
| Honor | Walsh | 1841 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Arrived from London. | |||||
| Mary | Walsh | 1841 (?) | John | Burlington | Married expiree James Joseph Glossop on 24/7/1864 in Perth. He had arrived on the Edwin Fox in November 1858, having been convicted for desertion in Mauritius in September 1854. He died in 1889. | Glossop is named on Fremantle's Welcome Walls (Panel 101), where it mentions his marriage to Mary. | |||
| Winifred | Ward | c. 1832 | Ennis, Co Clare | James Ward and Bridget Miller | RC | Palestine | Married Michael John Brownrigg on 7th July 1855, they had 8 children. | Her occupation at time of marriage was servant, and his was fitter and turner. He was born in Dublin 1831. | 13th September 1893 at Moonyoonooka, N Geraldton |
| Catherine | Whelan | 1829 | Dublin | Sabrina (June 1853) | Catherine was described on the Sabrina passenger list as a 24-year old domestic servant from Dublin. | ||||
| Eliza Anne | Wiley | 1844 or 1847 | County Monaghan | Burlington (April 1863) | Married Richard Birch (born in Australind) on 17/3/1866, and they had 10 children: Charlotte Maud, James Oliver, William Brown, Richard Aubrey, George Walter Hetherington, Clement William, Edith May, Eliza Ruth, Blanche Evelyn Vera, Corona Violet. | Birch was a pharmacist (apprenticed in his family's company), and was in South Australia from 1866-1869 on the staff of F.H Faulding and Co, returning in 1870. By 1875, he had his own business. | She died on 25/1/1931 (aged 84–85) in North Fremantle, and is buried in Fremantle cemetery | ||
| Anne | Wright | 1833 | Dublin | Richard | Sabrina (June 1853) | She married Thomas Knibbs in Albany, 20/8/1854. They had one child, Thomas Hester, who was born in 1855 (also in Albany). Her husband had died in early 1855, and Anne gave birth shortly afterwards. | In Sabrina's passenger list, she was described as a 20-year old domestic servant from Dublin. |