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Australia / Re: EMMA EUGENIA Passenger list May 1858 arrival Fremantle
« on: Monday 03 May 21 10:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sue,

The Informant was L Bird who I am sure was her daughter Lillian Freeman b oct 6 1869 Reg No 11859. Also known as "Aunt Lilly". Married Alfred Bird 1887 in Carnarvon.
John

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Australia / Re: EMMA EUGENIA Passenger list May 1858 arrival Fremantle
« on: Monday 03 May 21 05:39 BST (UK)  »
I recently was contacted by a person in England who advised he was a provisional DNA match of myself. It appears the connection is through Ellen Byrnes b 1845 London and Mary Ann Byrnes b 1840 London.
I am undertaking further DNA testing to confirm. Confirmation would then suggest that Ellen Byrnes /Burns came to Australia in 1858 and given she was a pauper living in a working house in London its likely she came as part of the immigration of domestic servants scheme commenced in the 1850's.

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Australia / Re: EMMA EUGENIA Passenger list May 1858 arrival Fremantle
« on: Sunday 02 May 21 01:38 BST (UK)  »
My Ellen Byrnes (my great great grandmother) was born 15th May 1945 Holborn, London and was listed in the 1851 census at the Christchurch Workhouses Charles Street Mile End New Town with her elder sister Mary Ann b 1840 and elder brother b 1939. I'm guessing she came on the Emma Eugenia as her death cert shows her arriving 1858. According to "The Immigration of Domestic Servants to
Western Australia in the 1850s and 1890s" by Emily Jayne Chambers this ship brought around 130 single women and girls to be domestic servants for the Swan River Colony.
She married Jeremiah McGrath 1862, James Freeman 1868, John Nelson 1882 and John Bryant 1892 and died in 1910 Carnarvon WA.

many thanks for your help - - I will follow this lead up.

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Australia / Re: EMMA EUGENIA Passenger list May 1858 arrival Fremantle
« on: Tuesday 27 April 21 08:46 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone help with a passenger list for the EMMA EUGENIA which landed in Fremantle Western Australia on 25th May 1858.

In particular a passenger named Ellen Byrne(s) or Burns(s)

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