Hello Teena and List-members.
A lot of work on these girls has been done by an Irish academic in Australia,
named Trevor McLAUGHLIN.
In 1991 the Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc. published his book:
“Barefoot and Pregnant?: Irish Famine Orphans in Australia”.
The last c. two-thirds of the book comprises a “Register of Irish Female
Orphans Who Arrived Between 1848 and 1850”
(in Sydney, New South Wales; Port Phillip in Victoria; and in Adelaide, South
Australia).
Headings for this Register are: Name, Age, Native Place, Parents, and Religion.
He obtained those details from Australian shipping and immigration and
newspaper records; as well as from numerous Irish sources.
My poor old memory fails me these days, but it is highly likely that he might
have later issued a new edition; and my guess is that others might also have
written in academic or historical or genealogical journals about the scheme and
some of the individuals involved. Sorry for the vagueness.
So … if you have any willing volunteers, Teena, they should be able to easily
obtain this book on inter-library loan (well, that is how the system works in
Australia), and then more laboriously extract the entries for the relevant
Ulster counties for you.
HTH. Ray in Oz
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On 16 Apr 2018, at 2:13 pm, Teena <4theloveoftyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
I wish they would have named them!
transcribed from the Irish Industrial Journal
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Wednesday 10 October 1849
Deportation of Paupers Omagh Union
The Guardians of this Union have sent 19 orphan girls from the
workhouse, last week, provided with a suitable outfit, as emigrants to
Australia, the Government providing them with free passage from
Plymouth, to which port their expenses are defrayed by the Union. Four
orphan girls, from the Gortin Workhouse, were also sent at the same
time, provided with a similar outfit Tyrone Constitution
Thursday evening 112 young women, selected from the workhouses of
Coleraine, Armagh, Newtownlimavady, Antrim, Ballymoney, Larne,
Cookstown, and Banbridge, embarked on board ' the Prince' steamer, for
Dublin, previous to their final embarkation for Sydney. The clean and
respectable appearance of the poor girls was most creditable to
themselves and their unions.
Sixty girls left Enniskillen Workhouse, Wednesday last, for Australia.
They were well clad, and selected from amongst all the inmates for
their excellent conduct.
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te...@cotyrone.com
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