Hello all.
James Hennessy labourer 19y, Johanna Hennessy general servant 26y, and Honora Hennessy 22y ditto, all from Ballybunion parish, Listowel, Co Kerry, (siblings/related??) were recorded together as a group in 1860 as being sponsored by Denis Hennessy to arrive in Sydney on the British Trident. Their referee was the Ballybunion parish priest.
The British Trident duly arrived in Sydney on the 7 Jan 1861.
However, in the list of arrived, sponsored British Trident immigrants, published separately but contemporaneously in the Sydney Morning Herald & the Empire, Johanna is missing. Is that unusual? She doesn't appear as a shipboard death. Is it likely she sailed later for some reason? Was that permitted under the sponsorship scheme?
Gt gt grandfather James’s origin, in the BT passenger list, is given as Gale (sic), which, thanks to the marvellous help of Rootschatters on an earlier post, I now know to be the civil parish of Galey. ( We then were able to deduce that he was from the RC parish of Ballybunion.) The Denis Hennessy sponsorship record- found yesterday, hooray! -is the first indication of James arriving with probable relatives. (He named his 6th child/4th daughter Honora)
James & Denis are recorded in Bailliere’s 1867 directory as farmers at Hexham (Hunter River, NSW)
I have no further info on either of the women, can't be sure if, when & whom they may have married, though there are some possibilities. Anyone have light to shed on Joanna or Honora??
I’ll try to attach snippets!!
