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Title: The Palestine ship 1853 - Mountbellew workhouse orphan girls
Post by: Galwayancestors on Saturday 06 August 16 01:27 BST (UK)

A project group is established for the purposes of tracing the descendants of the Orphan Girls that emigrated to Australia on the bride ship called the 'Palestine', from Mountbellew workhouse, Co Galway in 1853 along with about 30 orphan girls.

It will be a two fold, one tracing the Orphan Girls descendants in Australia and second fold looking at possible descendants of relatives in the surrounding localities of Mountbellew, Caltra, Clonbrock, Castleblakeney, Moylough, Newbridge, to name a few. It is thought some of these young girls were in Ballinasloe workhouse before been transferred to Mountbellew.
Would love to hear from any Australian descendants of the orphan girls.

Title: Re: The Palestine ship 1853 - Mountbellew workhouse orphan girls
Post by: Essie on Sunday 07 August 16 09:33 BST (UK)

For the benefit of descendants.....

Trove has a passenger list for this ship to Fremantle with around 40 young single women that I have identified from WA records.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3174386

Essie