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Found – another Kerry Girl, Earl Grey Scheme
When I attempted to research the identities of the 117 Kerry Girls who went to Australia in 1849/1850 on the Earl Grey emigration scheme, there was a huge blank in finding the families of the Killarney girls. The thirty five ...
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Killarney to Van Diemens Land 1837
This is an unusual blog. Together with an Australian PhD candidate, Margaret Coffey, I am trying to identify all or some of the Killarney families who were FREE emigrants to Van Diemens Land [Tasmania] in 1837. These families were not ...
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Emigrant’s tale 1837- 1933
The following history of his family, written in the USA by Daniel E. Harrington over a three-year period from 1830 to 1933, gives an insight into the sad times and terrible hardships of emigrants in the 1800s. This letter appears ...
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Found – another Kerry Girl, Earl Grey Scheme
When I attempted to research the identities of the 117 Kerry Girls who went to Australia in 1849/1850 on the Earl Grey emigration scheme, there was a huge blank in finding the families of the Killarney girls. The thirty five ...
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Killarney to Van Diemens Land 1837
This is an unusual blog. Together with an Australian PhD candidate, Margaret Coffey, I am trying to identify all or some of the Killarney families who were FREE emigrants to Van Diemens Land [Tasmania] in 1837. These families were not ...
Read More
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Emigrant’s tale 1837- 1933
The following history of his family, written in the USA by Daniel E. Harrington over a three-year period from 1830 to 1933, gives an insight into the sad times and terrible hardships of emigrants in the 1800s. This letter appears ...
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Webinar on the Fall of the Fitzmaurices (By Kay Caball)
Oct 2020 with the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society
The book is available for purchase at O’Mahonys Booksellers Limerick.
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