ROACH WINIFRED - Famine Orphan Girl Ships to Australia To Melbourne, Victoria 1848-1850

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Ships to Melbourne, Victoria
Ship Date of Departure [Plymouth] Date of Arrival
Lady Kennaway 11September 1848 6 December 1848
Pemberton 29 January 1849 14 May 1849
New Liverpool 25 April 1849 9 August 1849
Diadem 13 October 1849 10 January 1850
Derwent 9 November(?) 1849 25/26 February 1850
Eliza Caroline 31 December 1849 31 March 1850

Surname First Name Age Native Place Parents Religion Other

Roach Winifred 14 Tuam Galway NA RC
Empl. Dr Fletcher Murray Rd. £8 1 yr. Married 1: Parkhurst exile
Irishman Henry Cowell, 1850 in Sydney, moved to Ballarat 1852 and had
5 children; deserted by Henry who died in New Zealand in 1863; married
2: Irishman John Thompson in Ballarat in 1859, 8 children (13 children
in 20 years). John died in 1875, 4 youngest children sent to an
orphanage. Winifred moved to Tilpa near Wilcannia c. 1880 and ran the
'Wee Water Hotel'; married 3: James Colypreast nr Wilcannia 1893, no
death recorded. Mrs Ann West, 28 Westlake Drive, MT Ommaney 4074.