Mary Gunny Foundling Hospital/House of Industry

[justme]

Thankyou Cazay for that info and all your trouble. Poor Mary is proving to be quite elusive but I will keep "digging". Again, a big thanks
                       
                                Del.

[trev1]

Dear Del,
Have been working on a cd rom version of my shamrock to wattle (slowly) and can tell you there is a partial list of the Red Rover women in state Records of NSW Microfilm reel 2795, if that helps.
best of luck with it
trevor mcclaughlin

[justme]

Hello Trevor,

What a great surprise to hear from you.....the author himself. Thankyou for the info. I'm hoping to travel to Sydney in December to go searching. My "research time" is being taken up at the moment.....very frustrating!!
I'm wishing you much speed and good luck with your CD.

                              Del

ps enjoyed "Irish Women in Colonial Australia". A great resource.

[trev1]

Dear Del,
another snippet
"1832.   Red Rover emigrants
   Some of the female emigrants by the Red Rover sent to
   Hunter Valley region, New South Wales.
      LA Sept 11 1832"
 from Jenny Fawcett. La =Legislative Assembly??

There may be something on the Cork and Dublin foundling hospitals in Joseph Robins' Lost Children, Dublin, 1980.
It's also probably worth looking at Peter Higginbotham's great website www.workhouses.org.uk
best wishes
trevor

[trev1]

Del,
please excuse this bitty information. Here's a par I have in my revised Shamrock to Wattle,
>>A testimonial was issued to each of the young women of the Red Rover from the Cork House of Industry: “This testimonial is given to you---in order to certify that your Emigration is Voluntary, and that you are assisted in removing to a more distant settlement for your own advantage, and not in consequence of any offence or misconduct. It is hoped that you will prosper---that you will always feel the value of good character, and learn to respect yourself---that you will cultivate and cherish every honest principle and good sentiment---that you will so perform the duties of your station, as to bring upon yourself the favour of those with whom you may have to live and the never-failing mercy and protection of Almighty God”. But as A. J. Hammerton says this is no guarantee that pressure was not exerted on those who were reluctant to emigrate (p.543). <<

[trev1]

OOps Del,
 I revised chapt 5  a while back. Here's another snippet from the revised chapt.
 
>>As I’ve written elsewhere, ‘Cargos of juvenile prostitutes’ were how they were remembered in the decades following their arrival. Red Rovers became a term of abuse applied indiscriminately to prostitutes’, even though the young women who came in August, 1832 were impeccably well-behaved, and welcomed with open arms on arrival. <<

[justme]

Hello Trevor,

Thankyou so much for the extra info. Will definitely look out for "Lost Children". The workhouse site is great.....can't believe how bad life was for those poor orphans. We are certainly descended from tough, resilient people. Thankyou again for your help   
                                    Del.

[Parramattan]

Hi Del

         I've returned to John's genealogy, and am just checking Mary Gunny's other children. Am I right in thinking that Catherine Lynch married Michael Bulger, had a lot of children, and died in 1916?

         Cheers Annette

[justme]

Hi Annette,

Catherine (Lynch)BULGER died in 1916 and, yes, had lots of children. I found her funeral notice in the Sydney Morning Herald....nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15636122   .Lots of family named in there.

Am also pretty excited to have found the death notice of her brother Dennis LYNCH who died in 1895. The notice says:-   "beloved brother of Mrs M BULGER, of Erskine-street: Mrs MJ TAYLOR, of John-street, Pyrmont; Mrs C COX, of Kangaroo Valley; and Mr J LYNCH, of Young".

I also found Catherine's death notice but can't lay my hands on ot at the moment. Great that you are able to return to John's research  .

Del