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Pauleen Cass

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) From East Clare to Eastern Australia: The Parish Priest, the Middle Men and the Emigrants.

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Map reproduced with permission of Shamrock Cottages. www.shamrockcottages.co.uk

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) The area circled centres on the town of Broadford in the of Lower. The radius of the circle is approx 8 miles.

Map reproduced with the permission of the Clare County Library. www.clarelibrary.ie You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) The Baronies of Co Clare, including and Lower. Map reproduced with the permission of the Clare County Library. www.clarelibrary.ie

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) SUFFERING FROM PLACE CONFUSION? Kilnoa, Kilnoe, Kilnow, , Kilsiley, Kilsilie, Kilsawley Broadford, Broadfoot, Bradford, Brafford Glenomera, Glenomeragh, Glenomurrah, Glannomanna

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW (SRNSW): CGS 5239, [9/6213]. Emigration Remittance for the Ryan family in Immigration letters: “Golconda”

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Surname First name Total 1862 1863 1864 1865 Madden James 79 11 60 7 1 Fox Patrick 19 19 Moroney Cornelius 19 4 15 Sheridan John 18 4 3 11 Doheny James 12 12 Larkin Patrick 10 10 TOTAL NOMINATIONS 157 29 109 18 1

Data taken from the East Clare database and Immigration Deposit Journals. SRNSW: Immigration Deposit Journals 1853-1866. NSW Archives Kit, CGS 5264, Microfilms 2668A; 26770-26772

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5239, [9/6213] letter 57/2001. Immigration letters: “Golconda”. Remittance payment by James Madden on behalf of Michael Bourke.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5328, [9/6283 ]

Ship’s papers “John Temperley”

Surgeon’s report of the disposal of the immigrants by the ship “John Temperley” who have left the ship without entering into formal engagements.

Extract of page. .

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THESE SOURCES Reid, R. Aspects of Irish assisted emigration to New South Wales, 1848-1870. PhD thesis, ANU, 1992. Pat Ryan quoted in O’Brien, P. Broadford. County Clare 1830-1850: A study of a rural community. Unpublished MA (History and Local Studies), University of Limerick, 1999, p21. Burke, B. An East Clare priest: Fr John Burke 1805-1881 in Sliabh Aughty 2005. O’Mahoney, C. Emigration from the Limerick Workhouse 1848-1860 in The Old Limerick Journal, Spring 1982.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Population comparison across 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses

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Census 1841 6000 Census1851 Census 1861 4000 Population numbers Population

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0 Kilnoe Tulla rural Tulla Tulla town Tulla Ogonelloe rural Feakle Kilseilyrural Feakle town Feakle Killaloerural rural Bridgetown* rural Clonlea Killaloetown Scariff town# Scariff Kilbane town* Kilbane town* Cloonla Baurroe town* Baurroe Broadford town Broadford Kilkiskhen town Kilkiskhen Tomgraney rural Tomgraney O'Brien's Bridge O'Brien's town Tomgraney Public institutions Public rural Killokennedy O'Callaghan's Mills* O'Callaghan's O'Brien's Bridge rural Bridge O'Brien's Parishes & Towns

Source: British Parliamentary Papers, Census of Ireland 1861. Enumeration statistics. http://www.eppi.ac.uk/stats/1861/

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5239, [9/6213]

Immigration letters: “Golconda”.

Passage Certificate (Remittance) for the Ryan family from Bodyke, paid by Terence O’Brien. 3 pages

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5239, [9/6213]

Immigration letters: “Golconda”.

Passage Certificate (Remittance) for the Ryan family from Bodyke, paid by Terence O’Brien. 3 pages

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5239, [9/6213]

Immigration letters: “Golconda”.

Passage Certificate (Remittance) for the Ryan family from Bodyke, paid by Terence O’Brien. 3 pages

Note the need to have birth certificate or baptism and the certification of the local nominee as to character etc.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5239, [9/6213]. Immigration letters: “Golconda”. Caution to applicants” taken from the “Regulations for the selection of emigrants under the remittance regulations”.

The implications of falsifying identity are clearly documented.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Relns Place of Primary in First Name Surname residence Occupation Colony Comments Obtained passage by representing (personating) herself to be Ellen Burns whose embarkation order she farm house procured on the girl declining Catherine Healey Killaloe servant Yes to proceed. Paid L1

Paid L1. Obtained a passage by personating Bridget Burns P Skehan Killalloe farm servant No (or Brown) aka Ellen. This girl obtained a passage by impersonating Ellen Daley and from whom Callaghan' farm house she recd the embarkation Mary Ann Grady s Mills (sic) servant Yes order on payment of 20s

Information extracted from State Records of New South Wales (SRNSW) Assisted immigrants Sydney, 1848-1866, and Moreton Bay, 1848-59. NSW Archives Kit, CGS 5316, Microfilms 2136-37 and State Records of New South Wales (SRNSW) Persons on Bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle Moreton Bay, 1848-66, NSW Archives Kit, CGS 5317, Reels 2460-2483.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Relations on board

Relations in the colony Total Yes No

Yes 48 9 39

No 75 42 33

Data taken from East Clare database based on Board Lists (op cit).

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Marital composition of emigrants assisted by middle men

13%

18%

Child

69% Married Single

Data taken from East Clare database from information extracted from the Board Lists (op cit)

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) MEN Broadford East Tulla % Clare Lower* % 1861 % Both 70.6 58.1 39.90 Read 9.8 13.9 13.73 Neither 19.6 28.0 46.37 WOMEN Broadford East Tulla Lower % Clare 1861 % % Both 30.6 32.5 20.28 Read 26.4 30.1 19.58 Neither 43.1 37.4 60.14

Data taken from East Clare database from information extracted from Board Lists: (op cit)

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5328 [9/6281]. Ship’s papers Abyssinian.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5328, [9/6283] Ship’s papers John Temperley

Female servant’s agreement between Mary Ann Madden and Thomas Allen of Wollongong.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Violet Hill House, Broadford c1900-1920. Seat of the Going Family in Broadford. Image 2002.0155 . Reproduced with kind permission of the Limerick Museum .http://www.limerickcity.ie/applications/General/Museum.aspx

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) #5 is Townland of Barbane, Parish of Killokennedy, part of Kilseily Parish.

Map reproduced with permission of Clare County Library which has excellent genealogy and history pages www.clarelibrary.ie

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Image nla.pic-an11165753-7-v reproduced with permission of the National Library of Australia. 1854-ca. 1871. 1 of 7 photographs : carte de visite ; 9.7 x 6.4 cm. Part of Collection of “photographs of Captain John Jenkins and his wife Jane ”Rose Cottage where we lived when we first came to the Bay and paid 175 pounds a year rent. No choice of houses here - houses taken before half built - 6/- a week - 2 room cottages”

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) State Records NSW: CGS 5239, [9/6238], letter 64/2615. Immigration letters received: Sandringham. Page 2 of letter regarding Bridget Shanahan from household of Mrs Jenkins, Watson’s Bay.

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Jane M. Jenkins, December 1863, NSW - whose husband Captain Jenkins was chief pilot in Sydney Harbour and piloted the Duke of Edinburgh into Sydney when on his visit from England. carte de visite; 9.7 x 6.4 cm. Part of Collection of “photographs of Captain John Jenkins and his wife Jane”

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) You searched marriages for the Bride's name Bridget shan*ahan in the years 1864 to 1880 1 - 3 of 3 matches found

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Registration Groom's Groom's Bride's Last Bride's District * Purchase Number Surname Given Name Given Certificate Name(s) at Time of Name(s) Marriage 2034/1866 RYAN THOMAS SHANAHAN BRIDGET GOULBURN Buy Now MURRURUN 2831/1870 DWYER DANIEL SHANAHAN BRIDGET Buy Now DI WILLIAM 4226/1876 DUFF SHANAHAN BRIDGET TAMWORTH Buy Now SEPTIMUS

Extract from online search of NSW marriages from http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/search.htm Reproduced with kind permission of NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) Acknowledgements Clare County Library Clare Local Studies Project (CLASP) Limerick Museum National Library of Australia Old Limerick Journal Sliabh Aughty Journal State Records NSW Richard Reid, ACT Pat O’Brien, Co Clare Brendan Burke, Dublin Shamrock Cottages

You created this PDF from an application that is not licensed to print to novaPDF printer (http://www.novapdf.com) I would welcome contact from anyone with East Clare ancestry especially those who arrived between 1848 and 1866 but also outside that time period as they were often part of the chain migration pattern.

Pauleen Cass, PO Box 341, NIGHTCLIFF, NT0814 [email protected]

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