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Australia / Irish Famine Monument Sydney
« on: Sunday 29 March 09 06:46 BST (UK)  »
Keeping a monument 'alive'--this seems to me a great way to do so.
http://irishfaminememorial.org/events/refugees.htm

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: James Kennedy and Mary McAlhoney Victoria
« on: Friday 27 February 09 07:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Flag,
Just in case there is someone else with an Irish famine orphan interest and 'their' orphan came from Enniskillen workhouse there's a great paper by Cormac O'Grada . Tim Guinnane etc at
http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2004/WP04.15.pdf
I had trouble getting to it last night but it's there again today.

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Can anyone read the second name
« on: Saturday 04 October 08 10:59 BST (UK)  »
May I suggest as a first step you look at other things written by your great grandmother--i hope you have something more-- and piece together a possible alphabet and work from there?

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Australia Lookups completed / Re Ann Gooley Orphan
« on: Tuesday 26 August 08 09:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi Peter,

An Ann Gooley per 'Maria' arrived in Sydney 1 August 1850 as one of the Irish Famine orphans sent to Australia from Irish workhouses under the Earl Grey scheme. There's mention of her in volume 2 of Trevor McClaughlin's BArefoot & Pregnant? Irish Famine orphans in Australia page 295 [ISBN 0949672513.She isdescribed as being 15yrs old, RC, coming from Tipperary. Both her parents Phillip and Honora were dead.

See www.irishfaminememorial.org

The annual celebration of the monument at Hyde PArk Barracks in Sydney willl be held this Sunday 31 August 2008 c 12.30pm. Descendants of these 'girls' are very welcome See Events 2008 on that website.

best wishes

PS Peter's query was here a minute ago, posted c. June 2008. It seems to have disappeared

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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Ann Gooley, Orphan
« on: Tuesday 26 August 08 09:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi Peter,
An Ann Gooley per 'Maria' arrived in Sydney 1 August 1850 as one of the Irish Famine orphans sent to Australia from Irish workhouses under the Earl Grey scheme. There's mention of her in volume 2 of Trevor McClaughlin's BArefoot & Pregnant? Irish Famine orphans in Australia page 295 [ISBN 0949672513].She is described as being 15yrs old, RC, coming from Tipperary. Both her parents Phillip and Honora were dead.

See www.irishfaminememorial.org

The annual celebration of the monument at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney willl be held this Sunday 31 August 2008 c 12.30pm. Descendants of these 'girls' are very welcome See Events 2008 on that website.

best wishes

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Ireland / Re: Irish famine orphans to South australia
« on: Sunday 24 August 08 09:13 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jap,
She wouldn't happen to be Jane Gillan, would she? as per this Letterkenny Board of Guradian minute--

<<27 Oct 48 the following letters were recd
from the PL Cmssners relative to the case of Jane Gillon one of the young females selected out of the wkhse by Lieut Henry fit for emigration.>>
Interestingly Letterkenny Board of Guardians seem to have cooperated with those in Dunfanaghy and Milford when they sent young women to England to board the Lady Kennaway.

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Ireland / Irish famine orphans to South australia
« on: Sunday 24 August 08 04:51 BST (UK)  »
new material regarding irish orphan girls who went to South Australia at the time of the Great Famine was recently added to http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/ships_sa.htm

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Australia / Irish famine orphans to South australia
« on: Sunday 24 August 08 04:47 BST (UK)  »
New material on the 'Earl Grey'  Irish Famine orphans has  recently been added to http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/ships_sa.htm

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Ireland Resources / Re: Some Irish Genealogy Links
« on: Friday 22 August 08 03:08 BST (UK)  »
For Aussie readers interested in Famine orphans, new info has been added to http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/ships_sa.htm
thanks for your good work.
trev

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