Catherine Baird

Catherine Baird was one of the Irish Famine Orphans on the Lady Kennaway. Her native place was Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland; she was Roman Catholic; possessed a Bible and could read only. Her Mother was still living.

Catherine left the Immigration Depot on the 10th February 1849. She was engaged as an Apprentice by Mr. Howe, a Clerk, of Melbourne for 2 years at £6 per annum.

• Age on arrival in Australia according to arrival record : 14 (according to Irish baptism record born in 1836) so age 12.
• Native Place : Letterkenny, Donegal (workhouse) original residence might have been elsewhere in Donegal
• Parents : Not recorded
• Religion : Roman Catholic
• Ship name : Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)
• Workhouse : Donegal, Letterkenny

Address in 1903:

• State: Victoria
• District: Bendigo
• Subdistrict: Barkly Ward
• The Letterkenny Workhouse

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Earl Grey orphan

• Religion : Roman Catholic
• Ship name : Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)
• Workhouse : Donegal, Letterkenny
• Other : shipping: house servant, reads only. Empl. by Mr Howe, clerk, Melbourne, £6, 2 years, apprentice; married Harry Ainsworth Johnstone, ship's steward in Bendigo 5 Feb 1872; no children although a niece, Rebecca Baird from Donegal, joined her in Bendigo in 1865. Husband worked as an agent and traveller. She died at Bendigo 10 Jul 1919.