Already psychologically affected by famine and her workhouse experience, 16 year-old Mary joined the Earl Grey in June 1848, along with other orphans from northern Irish workhouses. again, she watched ...
Margaret Hurley from Gort, County Galway was one of 4114 single teenage women from the workhouses in every county of Ireland who immigrated to Australia from Ireland between 1848 and 1850. She was one ...
The emigration scheme was run from London by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Earl Grey, and thus came to be known as the Earl Grey Scheme.
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