Irish famine orphans to South australia

[trev1]

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

[JAP]

Fascinating, trev1.

I have (or my children have on their paternal line) an Irish 'orphan' girl who went from Letterkenny Co Donegal to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1848 on the 'Lady Kennaway'.

So it's always great to read about new finds.

'My' 'orphan' girl seems to have left behind a mother and perhaps a brother according to a snippet from the Letterkenny workhouse minutes.  If only there were more info to be found ...

JAP 

[trev1]

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.

[JAP]

No Trev1 - what a swiz.

She was Isabella KINSELLA (both names spelled any which way) from Letterkenny.  Father Enoch K and mother Ann CHAMBERS.

I suspect that if I could get to the workhouse Minutes there would be info to be found.

The surname (however spelled) not a Donegal name.  There are some thoughts about where Enoch K might have originated.

Trevor's book refers to her - a letter home from a bigger girl refers to the little girls one of whom is our Bell!

JAP