Mary and many of her fellow passengers – convicts – on board the Earl Grey, having left Dublin five months earlier in December 1849, and disembarking on a grey May day on the other side of the world in 1850.
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‘Paris green’ and the story of young Albert Cyril Ashton
This is a story about one of the great-grandchildren of the ‘Earl Grey Irish Famine orphans’ Continue reading
Eliza McCready: A ‘Belfast Girl’ sent to Moreton Bay
She wasn’t simply an obscure name on a family tree. Her name appeared in the archives, documents from which I could determine meaning. Continue reading
