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What information do you already have re your Bridget who arrived per the Red Rover in 1832? Here is a live link to ten pages of the passenger list for that voyage (10 August 1832)
http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.aspx?series=NRS5312&item=4_4822&ship=Red%20Rover
JM
I can see this is a different passenger list, but for the same voyage .... and there I can see that Bridget is recorded as aged 13. I have read that the girls on that voyage were mostly from Limerick, and were drawn from the Orphans and Foundlings Hospital .... but I cannot find anything to support that notion. Apparently there's a newspaper cutting from April 1832 from a Limerick Chronicle .... but I have not found it...
ADD, page 9 of 10
JM
Sorry for the delay in following this up, I hope the following results from some newspaper searchings is helpful...
The Morning Post 4 April 1832
Ship News …. Cork, March 30 ...
Arrived the Red Rover, Chrystie, from London for New South Wales.I have not yet found any newspaper cutting for April 1832 that mentions the Orphans and Foundlings Hospital being where the girls who came on the Red Rover arriving August 1832, but I have found some clues as to where the girls were from ….
The Morning Post 17 April 1832
Emigration … Limerick April 11 …
We stated some posts since that 200 females were to proceed from this port to New South Wales. The Red Rover transport having arrived in Cove for their conveyance, 44 females forwarded by the Inisfail steamer from Dublin, embarked on board her yesterday. This morning 140 females from this city and vicinity proceeded by one of the river steam-boats for Cove to embark also in the transport. – (Cork Chronicle of Monday). I found the Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday 11 April 1832 (but NOT the Cork Chronicle) and the very short article there simply reads:
One hundred and eighty-four free female emigrants, under 30 years of age each, embarked yesterday at Cork, in the Red Rover transport, for New South Wales. I also found a mention of the Limerick Evening Post and Clare Sentinel of 3 April 1832. I have NOT found that edition online, but I can see that the National Library of Australia does have the newspaper listed in its catalogue.
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1740310 Apparently the article reads:
New wives for New South Wales -- vessel, we believe the Red Rover, has been taken up by the Government, for the purpose of conveying 200 free female emigrants from Cork to New South Wales, who are to be provided with situations or husbands as chance may offer, on their arrival
Perhaps that Limerick newspaper may have mentions of the surnames MCGUGGIN or MCGUGGAN … I see it is digitised and available via subscription services.
So, 200 females aged under 30, and eligible to marry ...
44 from Dublin (may have been born/raised elsewhere, but that's where they had been prior to travelling to Cork to board the Red Rover)
140 already in Cork (may have been born/raised elsewhere, but they were from Cork and its vicinity prior to boarding the Red Rover there)
16* unaccounted for .... Need to check if 200 embarked or if that was a nominal figure...
The Sydney Gazette 11 August 1832
Arrivals ... From Cork, yesterday the ship Red Rover, Captain Christie, with 202 free female settlers and two children, one born on the voyage .... they appear to be between the ages of 16 and 24. Paper says Landed 202 female settlers plus 2 children.
Likely that would be made up of :
44 Dublin
140 Cork and vicinity
18* unsure (variations in the figures deduced from those newspaper reports 16 or 18)
1 child unsure
1 child born on voyage
Does that match with the passenger lists?
Anyways, now it should be possible to seek out any baptismal records for McGuggin/McGuggan (and other variations) in the right range of years for those two girls ... I should note that on some of the Bounty lasses I have researched in past years, I recall finding that some baptismal records were dated in the weeks prior to embarking .... perhaps as part of the application process needed by some of the Emigration Agents.
JM