Leone, this is a great site http://www.cyndislist.com/poor.htm Good luck in your search Shauna > Dear List, Sorry for the cross postings, but I wasn't sure which list to > subscribe to, so I subscribed to all the Cork lists I could find. > My g.g. grandmother, BRIDGET RILEY, sailed to Australia from Cork on the Duchess > of Northumberland in 1834. She was a single woman, presumably with no family, > sailing off to a new life (how brave they must have been!). > I have no idea of her life previous to that sailing, other than than she was a > native of Roscommon. However, she *may* have lived in Cork for some time. I > would like to know whether there are any lists of workhouse inmates in the Cork > area, that are accessible online, or to any other list members. I do not know > BRIDGET's parents' names, sibling names, *anything*. > She arrived in Australia in 1835, took up employment as a cook at the Albion > Hotel in Sydney and not long afterwards married my g.g.grandfather and had a > tribe of children...etc. etc. but it is her early life I really want to find out > about. > Also, I would like to find out a lot about the early history of this area around > the same time she was there - clothes, social life, etc. > Thanks in advance, > Leone > >