CONNELL and DUNN/E heritage

Deborah,

Is this your James? Record from Ancestry

Deborah,

There are 64 trees on Ancestry. Most of them suggest he came over in 1841. The ship's list identifies he was from Tyrone. That said, some trees have him born in Cork with various parents. Was he Protestant? I was not able to find the Sea Queen. As you noted, the ship's passenger list shows he was from Cork. You might contact the Australian government for marriage and death records. They might have parents' names.

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1844 Voyage – April 1844

In April 1844, the Sea Queen was listed in the Sydney Morning Herald as a barque of 465 tons, under the command of Martin. She had sailed from London on 29 November 1843 and from Cork on 4 January 1844, carrying 219 immigrants

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DUNN Jane - State Records Authority of New South Wales

CONNELL James - State Records Authority of New South Wales The original passengers' list might have more information.

Number

INX-9-135748

Title

CONNELL James

Index Name

Assisted Immigrants Index 1839-1896

Name

James

Surname

CONNELL

Index Number

9

Ship

Sea Queen

Year

1844

Place of Arrival

Port Phillip

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This group might be able to provide you more information about James.

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On RootsIreland (paid subscription), there are 28 James Connells baptized in Cork between 1815-1825. Most of these are in towns located east of Cork City.

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Here are three Jane/Joan/Johanna Dunnes baptized in Wexford in the 1820s and 1830s. (Joan and Johanna are variants of Jane.)

Two of these children had fathers named John, and Jane had a son John, which might be a clue for you.

Name:        Joan Dunne        

Date of Birth:      21-May-1822

Date of Baptism:          23-May-1822

Address:    Not Recorded     Parish/District:   Templetown

Gender:      Female       County       Co. Wexford

Denomination:   Roman Catholic

Father:       Peter Dunne       Mother:     Mary Howlett

Occupation:        Not Recorded               

Sponsor 1 /

Informant 1:       Thomas Doyle

Sponsor 2 /

Informant 2:       Maria White

Notes:

Name:        Johanna Dunne  

Date of Birth:      

 Date of Baptism:         8-May-1827

Address:              

Parish/District:   Rathangan

Gender:      Female       County       Co. Wexford

Denomination:   Roman Catholic

Father:       John Dunne        

Mother:     Ellen Dunne

Occupation:                            

Sponsor 1 /

Informant 1:       Thomas Dunne

Sponsor 2 /

Informant 2:       Mary Whitty

Notes:

--from RootsIreland

Name         Jane Dunn

Baptism Age       0

Birth Date  1836

Baptism Date     16 Sep 1836

Baptism Place     Killaveny, Wexford and Wicklow, Ireland

Parish Variants   Anacorra, Annacorra, Annacurra, Killavany

Diocese      Ferns

Father        John Dunn

Mother      Wedy [Judy] Byrne

--from Ancestry

Some of the trees on Ancestry suggest the 1836 baptism. She was married in 1850 and would have been 14 years old.

Thank you very much for the information you’ve sent me Mary.

Yes, my James Connell is the one you’ve listed. I believed him to be Roman Catholic as they were married in the Catholic Church in Melbourne in 1850 and then their first son was baptized in the same Catholic Church. On his death certificate in 1909, a Catholic minister was at the burial. The details on his death certificate were given by one of his sons who reported James was 94, Parents unknown, born in Cork and had spent 45 years in Victoria. He married Jane Dunn at the age of 22. The ages of the children didn’t make a lot of sense as Mary his eldest was said to be 55 and the youngest one Daniel was said to be 31. I can believe the son wouldn’t know many of the historical facts but his siblings ages don’t correspond with what is on Jane’s death certificate when she died in 1893 as the children were listed as Mary being the eldest ant 46 and the youngest one Daniel 30. 

My original research many years ago showed a James Connell sailed on the Sea Queen. However, the dates didn’t match up and I wondered whether this was just a mistake because he wasn’t  literate. Do you think that could be the case or am I just wrong? 

They were on the goldfields in Victoria for quite some years before settling in Daylesford and along with others in their family are buried in unmarked graves.

The details for Johanna Dunne would match up with Jane’s age.

If she was in the New Ross workhouse where would I look for those records?

Thank you for the suggested research sites.

You and the other researchers certainly help a lot of people.