To Barbara, Cara and others Thanks very much for the information you have provided. It has been most helpful. Kind regards Helen Australia On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Maurie O'Connor <[email protected]>wrote: > Now, did I miss this one on > http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/ships_nsw.htm, or was I > confused > by all the Byrnes? > > Catherine Byrnes, 15 Years > Native place Dublin, RC > Parents Christopher & Rosanna (both dead) > Rathdowne Union, Empl. etc. etc. (putting this in for Cara's benefit). > > Have you contacted Tom Power from the Irish Famine Commemoration Committee. > Contact details on above website. He's a very nice gentleman and extremely > helpful. And he's also in regular contact with Trevor McClaughlin, author > of Barefoot & Pregnant. There could be some further information regarding > Catherine Byrnes which is not on the website. Or how to get information on > workhouse records. > > Just googled Rathdown Union Workhouse - > http://www.nationalarchives.ie/research/poorlaw.html says "National > Archives > holds several very complete collections of workhouse records relating to > ... > Rathdown Union". I have no idea how to access these records from > Australia, > but someone else might be able to advise. > > A lot of other interesting looking sites show up with a Google search. Look > at http://myhome.ispdr.net.au/~mgrogan/cork/jane_workhouse.htm<http://myhome.ispdr.net.au/%7Emgrogan/cork/jane_workhouse.htm>for a > description of the surviving inmate records. Sadly, no records remain for > Tuam, Galway from where my g-g-grandmother and her sister came to > Australia. > > Cheers > Barbara > > > > > > > > *************************************** > 1- Only leave in the body of the mail what is relevant to your answer > > 2- Change the SUBJECT LINE to suit the body of your own Mail to List. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >