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| First Name | Last Name | Date of Birth | Native Place | Parents | Religion | Ship Name | Family | Other Details | Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary | Crowe | c. 1832 | William | RC | Travancore | Married Henry Stanes Flynn alias Ricketts, PHB (5/6/1854) in Australiand; 6 children. | Listed by Salvado, May 1854 in Bunbury; servant of Forrest at Picton; listed as tenant of Thomas Little at Dardanup in 1856 | Mary died 25/4/1884 at Dardanup; Flynn died 1915 (was reported in the Southern Times). | |
| Catherine | Cunningham | 1837 | Dublin | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married Robert Mansfield 12/8/1857. Children: Mary Cecilia (1858), William Nicholas (1860), John (1861), Robert Philip (1863), Joseph Edward (1866), Thomas (1866), Priscilla Josephine (1869), Edmund Paul (1871), Isabella Grace Mansfield (1873) | Mansfield died on 21/3/1921 in Perth; buried in Karrakatta cemetery. He was an expiree, and they married in Middle Swan. Last 2 children: Florence May (1876) and Rose Anne (1878) | She died in West Perth on 20/3/1922 aged 86. There was an article in the WA Record on 25/3/1922 | ||
| Catherine | Dalton | 1837 | King's County (?) | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married George Hayman, 11/5/1858. They had 3 children: George Augustus (1859-1939), Elizabeth Bertha (1860-1951) and Belinda Jane (1862) | Hayman was on a WA tour of service with the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot when he married Catherine. They later moved to NSW, and he died in Granville on 11/2/1908. | |||
| Catherine | Delany | Patrick Delany | Shanghai (possibly Clara) | Married expiree William Henry Summers on 27/12/1856 in Guildford. He had arrived on the Minden in October 1851. She and William farmed in Middle Swan, Bindoon and Rockingham. They had 9 children: William Edmund Summers, John Summers, Sarah Ann (Summers) M | She died on 3/4/1910 at her home in Midland Junction. An article in the Western Mail (Saturday 16th April 1910) reported her death. | ||||
| Catherine | Deneefe | 1834 | Kilkenny | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married Henry Bell on 6/8/1855 in Pinjarra | Bell employed 2 ticket of leave labourers (1864, 1866) at Williams Rd depot. He left for SA in January 1877 | |||
| Margaret | Devane | c. 1833 | Thomas and Mary nee McCourtney of Kilbury | RC | Travancore | Married Patrick (John) Flynn, 8/1/1854 CE and 11/1/1855 RC in York; she remarried Peter McCarthy O'Sullivan, 27/3/1879 in Warrialda, NSW; they had 4 children. | Emigrated from Clahane; was listed by Salvado in York, 1854; in 1871 she put a notice in the WA papers asking John to get in touch since she hadn't seen him in 14 years and she intended to marry again. | Obituary appeared in the Inverell Times, 9/7/1907. | |
| Mary Ann (e) | Doherty | Shanghai | Married William (James?) Hone. They had 2 children: William (1858) and John (1863); both baptised at Fremantle RC. | ||||||
| Bridget | Doherty | 1845, 1849, 1853 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married Edward Smyth, possibly an expiree, who was a farmer in Dongara (1870s) and lighthouse keeper (1876). They had 3 children: Edward Bolton Smyth (1873-1950), Henrietta Ann Smyth Mcintyre (1874-1951), and Richard Smythe (1876–1877). | Bridget may have separated from Edward c 1884 and was possibly working as a cook at White Peak Station, Northampton WA. He died in Dongara in January 1886. | ||||
| Ann | Donnellan | 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married Samuel Thomas Reynolds (RC), 30/10/1854 in Bunbury; 2 children. | Listed by Salvado 1854 in Bunbury; lived at 'Moorlands' 1850s. | |||
| Kate | Donovan | 1862 | RC | Lady Louisa | Kate was a teacher working for the Sisters of Mercy. | ||||
| Rosanna | Doran (?) | 1833 | Ireland | RC | Berkshire (March 1855) | She married William Moate on 23/71855 in York (C/E) and then 5/9/1856 (RC). They had 12 children. Was hutkeeper for Thomas Butler in 1859 | Children: Catherine, Michael, Patrick, Frances Theresa, John, Eliza, James, John, Samuel, Rosannah, Bridget, William | Died on 4 /2/1892 at about age 57 in York. There was an article in the Eastern Districts Chronicle on 6/2/1892 | |
| Rosanna | Doran, Dorien | 1835 | Kildare | Married expiree William Moate on 23/7/1855 in York. They had 10 children. William died in 1877 (in York) and she outlived him. | Children were: Bridget (1872), Micheal (1857), Catherine (1856), Elizabeth (1863), Frances (1860), Jack (1862), Patrick (1859, Rosannah (1870, Louisa (?), William (1872) | ||||
| Catherine | Dowling | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Emigrated from Kilmore; listed consecutively on passenger list with Mary Dowling (D12); both listed by Salvado 1854 York; possibly sisters. | ||||
| Mary | Dowling | c. 1833 | RC | Travancore | Married or defactor c. 1856 with expiree Patrick Hogan; 1 child. | Emigrated from Kilmore; consecutively listed on passenger list with Catherine Dowling; both listed by Salvado in 1854, York; possibly sisters. | |||
| Jessie Emily | Downe | Possibly Sydenham (Kent) | Shanghai (November 1856) | Married expiree Fred Tindale on 7/4/1859 or 7/8/1859. They had 4 children: William Henry (1859-died same year), John (1861- lived 10 days), Frederick George (1862), George Brewer (1865), and 2 others. | Fred Tindale left the colony for South Australia on 18 November 1871 | She died in 1923 | |||
| Mary | Dunn. | 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married widower William Watson Carter in Perth 6/2/1853; 4 children and 4 step-children. | Went to Victoria July 1854; William died Port Fairy. | 9/7/1904 in Port Fairy, Victoria; this was reported in the Port Fairy Gazette (12/7/1904). | ||
| Mary | Dunne | c. 1831 | Co Limerick | James and Mary Ann nee O'Brien | RC | Travancore | Married Frederick Higgins in Dardanup, 1/10/1853, 7 children. | Both listed by Salvado at Vasse in 1854; farmed at 'Rose Hill' in Capel; the Higgins brothers known as fine horse and cattle breeders; he was a free settler who arrived with his family. | She died in Donnybrook in 1905, he died in Dardanup. |
| Sally | Dwyre | c. 1834 | Co Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married (RC) expiree Michael Horan in Toodyay, 18/7/1858. | Farmed Toodyay 'Deepdale' and 'Mortingup'; he became an alluvial miner at Kanowna | She died of heart disease in Kanowna in April 1900. | |
| Martha | Egan | 1834 | Co Cork | John | RC | Palestine | Married Charles Gilbert Charles on 29/6/1857 in Champion Bay. Children Janet Anne (1859), John (1861), Mary (baptised 1862), Elizabeth (1863), Martha (1865), Charlotte (baptised 1870), William (1901). | Charles was a farmer and miner. He married again after she died, to Rachel Milligan, born in Downpatrick. | Died on 28/1/1891 in Greenough |
| Jane | Fannings, Fann | Shanghai (November 1856) | Married (or was possibly de facto) to John Byrne. They had a child Mary, who was baptised in 1859. | ||||||
| Mary | Farrall | c. 1832 | Thomas | RC | Travancore | Married John Harntnett in Bunbury, 3/2/1856 (TIL); they had 7 children. | Emigrated from Clahane; employed by Clifton at Australind; farmed 'Crooked Brook' Dardanup; he was from Kerry and died in 1899 from Bright's Disease. | She died on 14/4/1914. | |
| Kate | Farrell | 1861 | RC | Lady Louisa | She was one of the girls brought over by the Sisters of Mercy | ||||
| Elizabeth | Fee | 1838 | Thomas | Shanghai (1856) | Married expiree Thomas Armstrong on 24/8/1858 in Fremantle. He had arrived on the Berkshire (March 1855). He was an agricultural labourer, and he died on 18/1/1886. | ||||
| Ann | Fee | Shanghai (November 1856) | She married John Oliver on 20/9/1860. They had 4 children: John Adam (1863-1867), Frances Ann (baptised 1866, died 1867), Elizabeth Mary (baptised 1867), and Margaret. | John Oliver arrived on the Shepherd (1838) with his parents John and Catherine. He went on to become a farmer in the Swan Districts at ‘Magonah’ (1860s-1880s); he qualified as a juror in 1860 with 150 pounds personal estate | |||||
| Johanna | Fennell | c. 1832 | RC | Travancore | Married William Amsley, 9/1/1853 CE and 27/1/1854 RC in Bunbury; they had 6 children; she married 2nd expiree George Grant in 1876 in Busselton; he deserted his family c. 1884. | Emigrated from Ardoughter; was assaulted on the way to her employment in Canning; listed by Salvado May 1854 in Bunbury; William was a shipping master and whaler in Bunbury and Busselton; she worked as a laundress in the 1870s. | Died 23/7/1890. | ||
| Catherine, Cath | Finn | 1831 | Cork | John | Berkshire (March 1855) | She married expiree John Negus, 24/5/1861. They had 4 children: Elizabeth (1863, died at 5 weeks), John (1866, York, died at 6 weeks), Joseph (1869), John (1871) | Negas was a farmer in York, and Catherine carried on the farm after he died on 28/2/1877 | Died in York, 1907 | |
| Elizabeth | Finn or Fynn | 11/4/1839 (?) | Limerick (?) | John | RC | Shanghai | She married expiree George Davidson Moffatt/Murphett on 8/4/1858 or 12/4/1858 in York. They had 4 children: Louisa Moffatt Whitely (1860-1939), John Campbell Moffatt (1862-1939), George Davidson Moffatt (1865-1932) | She also had siblings Ellen Finn Williams (1835-1895, died in North Fitzroy, Victoria) and Margaret Finn McGuiness (1838-1915, died in Terang, Victoria). | Died on 5/2/1906 in Perth. She was buried in Karrakatta cemetery in the Catholic section. |
| Mary | Fitzgerald | c. 1830 | Maurice and Mary nee Bresnahan of Kilrowey | RC | Travancore | Married Henry Thomas, 9/1/1855 RC PHB in York; had 6 children. | Emigrated from Ardoughter; listed by Salvado 1854 in Albany; lived in York. | ||
| Julia | Fitzgerald | Ireland | Clara (1857) or Shanghai (1856) | Married Daniel Sullivan on 9/12/1855 (Tralee, Ireland); they had 1 child. She later married (as a widow) Cornelius Murphy on 12/7/1858 (Fremantle). They had 5 children, 4 of which died in early childhood between 1858 and 1863. | Cornelius was an enrolled pensioner guard who arrived on the Lord Raglan (1/61858). He had enrolled in Cork on 6/2/1835, and his pension districts were Cork (1856), WA (1858-1864), NSW (1864-1874), Waterford, Ireland (1874), and Sydney (1875-1879). | Died in 1922 in Fremantle. | |||
| Mary | Flanagan | 1834 | Mountbellew workhouse | RC | Palestine | Married George Armstead Smith (expiree) in Bunbury, 10/1/1854 (Church of England), then 27/1/1854 (RC). Had 12 children, 9 of whom lived to adulthood. Emma Ann (1856), Alice Maud (1859), Amy Mary (1861), Andrew Robert (baptised 1864), Henry (1869). | Was omn a steamer in 1857 to South Australia to follow the Victorian goldrushes. | ||
| Anney | Flannery | c. 1833 | Co Tipperary | RC | Travancore | Married TP John Bracken (25/1/1854, CE and 28/1/1854 RC) in Perth, had 8 children. | Both she and John were listed by Salvado in Mr Herbert's house (Toodyay, where he worked) in 1854. Went to Champion's Bay and Northampton in 1860s. | 1904 | |
| Mary | Flynn | RC | Palestine | Married Joseph Saunders 10/1/1858 (RC),then second husband John Bayneham 18/1/1874. Children mary (1859), Joseph (1860), Sarah (1864), Harriet (twin, 1868), Selina (twin, 1868), Susan, George (1871), Emma (1873), Ada Elizabeth (1873). | |||||
| Anney | Foley | 1832 | Travancore | Married/df John Carroll. He died 1876. | |||||
| Catherine (Kate) | Foley | 1844 | Strathmore (1864) | Had a sister Margaret Foley. Married Ferdinand Tondut (1868). They had 5 children: one girl (born 1869), Caroline (1870), Charles James (1872), Mary Elizabeth (1874) and Ferdinand Joseph (1875). | She had been nominated by Charles Camm (brother-in-law). Ferdinand (known as Fred) was born on 1/6/1844 (Perth); died on 2/12.1920 (aged 76) in South Perth (buried in Karrakatta). He had remarried Ellen Mary Foster,1886. | She died of phthisis on 28/11/1882 (aged 37–38) in Perth, and was buried in East Perth Cemetery. | |||
| Margaret | Foley | 1840 | Strathmore (1864) | She was the sister of Kate Foley | Had been nominated by Charles Camm (her brother-in-law, who had married her sister Elizabeth). He was a laborer from Newcastle. | ||||
| Maria, Mary | Forrester, Forrestall | 1829 | Kilkenny | Edmund | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married George Robinson on 15/11/1858 in Perth. They had 1 child: Henry James (1859) | George Robinson died in 1875 in Geraldton. He had married Sarah Hannah (Prescott) Rogers after Maria's death | Died on 1/5/1863 (this is uncertain) | |
| Ann | Gallagher (also known as Gallaghan) | Strathmore (1864) | Went to South Australia on the Sea Ripple. | ||||||
| Ellen | Gallaher | 1828 | RC | Travancore | married David Harris in Wonnerup, 24/12/1856. | Departed from WA in 1868, going to Melbourne with 3 children and no husband. | 1890 in Wollombi, NSW. | ||
| Kitty | Gleeson | c. 1831 | Travancore | Married Thomas Moore (TIL) in Middle Swan, 1855; had 3 children. | Lived in Middle Swan; he was a labourer employed at 'Spring Park' by Hamersley. | ||||
| Ellen | Godfrey | c. 1832 | John (Ireland) | RC | Travancore | Married William Henry Weekes (CP) | He married Jane Spencer in 1859 and had 8 children. | Ellen died 1858. Bdm records age as 21 years | |
| Honorah | Gready | 1848 or 1850 | Strathmore (January 1869) | She had been booked for a passage in Palestine (arriving 5/8/1868), but her cousin Fitzpatrick took her berth instead under the name of Gready. She arrived later on the Strathmore. | |||||
| Esther | Grealey | 1845 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Married expiree Dominic Lenaghan/Lenachan (12/3/1870) at Fremantle Congregation Church; they had one child, Frederick (born and died at 5 days old, 1870). | Her husband was born in Ireland (1836). He died on 9 November 1903, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. | ||||
| Elizabeth | Guy | 1831 | Dublin | Berkshire (March 1855) | Married expiree William Ford on 11/5/1857 in Toodyay. Children: Annie (1859) and Joseph James (1861) | She died on 15/10/1907 in Northam | |||
| Elizabeth | Hagan, Egan | 1838, 1840 | Strathmore (January 1869) | She married Edward George Byfield (16/2/1870) at Perth Wesley Church. | Byfield was a sawyer, contractor and farmer in Guildford, born in 1843 and died on 3/5/1930 (in Guildford). | She died on 5/1/1910 in Guildford. | |||
| Bridget | Hallinan | 1844, 1846 | Strathmore (January 1869) | Arrived from London. | |||||
| 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). | ||||
| 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. |