My family history in Australia and overseas and related migration research. My Beyond the Internet Topics. Having fun at Congress 2018. Jill Ball aka GeniAus and Brenda Wheeler and the bears at SAG. We started Congress unofficially on Thursday at the Society of Australian Genealogists.

Tens of thousands of single women migrated to the Australian colonies from Great Britain and Ireland during the nineteenth century. This mass movement of women commenced with the processes devised by the Emigration Commission of 1831-1832, followed by the work of the London Emigration Committee of 1833-1836 and continued throughout the century through a number of schemes to encourage women to emigrate, funded both by the British government and private organisations. Was reviewed in The Australian on.

A memorial to all those who emigrated from East County Clare, Ireland. Edmund and Patrick CAHILL of Glenomera, KILBANE. And his mother Julia Cahill. As well as some of his own migration story. I found an 1874 article in the. A town 15kms north of Stratford.