What is that native place of Isabella Johnston?

[McGroger]

My ancestor, Isabella Johnston arrived in Australia in 1850. She was a steerage passenger on the ship, “Anglia”, that first landed in Hobart, Tasmania then went on to Sydney in February 1850.

I’ve posted a snip from the list of passengers arriving in Sydney. I think I can read all the detail about Isabella but her native place has got me stumped.

This is what I think it says:

“Johnson, Isabella  25 (age) Dairymaid (calling) Rotherstown (?) Co Fermanagh (native place and county) William & Fanny both decd (Parents and if alive) C of E (Religious Denom) both (Read or write) none (Relations in the Colony) good (Health) none (Complaints re treatment) 2 pounds (Remarks)”

To me the place looks like “Rotherstown” (the formation of those letters looks like other examples on the page) but I can’t find anything like that on lists of place names or on old maps of Ireland.

Any help in locating the right place would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Peter

[hallmark]

Lowtherstown?

[Ruskie]

It looks like Rother(something) ... 

[hallmark]

Ok.

[Ruskie]

Do you have any other documents that tell you Isabella's place of birth?

The place name was probable written phonetically - I can't easily spot a place beginning in R-o-t-h.... in Fermanagh. There are quite a lot of townlands starting with R-o-s-s though.

[aghadowey]

It is written as Rotherstown but is almost certainly Lowtherstown (old name for Irvinestown and district outside Enniskillen). Johnston is a very, very common surname in Fermanagh.

[dathai]

Very coincidently a young lady by the name Isabella JohnsTon age 19 from Co Fermanagh was tried for burglary and robbery 2/3/1848 and sentenced to 10 years transportation

enter name here as spelt above
http://www.findingaids.nationalarchives.ie/

[McGroger]

Rootschatters are truly  amazing!

Sorry I was sleeping when all your replies came in - damn time differences.

Thanks hallmark, Ruskie, aghadowey and dathai.

No, Ruskie, I don’t have any other documents with her origin, except “County Fermanagh”.

But Lowtherstown (Irvinestown) certainly looks good - thanks hallmark and aghadowey. And, yes, some coincidence, dathai. There was also one from Clones I’d already eliminated. There must have been a lot of Isabella Johnstons around that area!

Thank you all very much. (Now I’d better go do my bit by seeing if there are any photos to restore.)

Cheers,
Peter

[Ruskie]

Well deduced hallmark and aghadowey.