LOOKING FOR FAMILY OF ANN HONORAH OR HONORAH MOORE A FAMINE ORPHAN ON THE "MARIA" 1850, TO AUSTRALIA
I'm looking for help in finding any (early 1800's) family in Roscrea area of my g.g.great grandmother whose name I know as Ann Honorah Rowlison (nee Moore). About 8 years ago after a lot of searching I found a shipping list of Irish immigrants collated by a man named Peter. On this list I found an entry for one Honorah Moore (alias Kelly) aged 16, a nursemaid of Roscrea. Parents' names Michael and Elizabeth (both dead), religion Church of Rome. A remark beside these details reads "HER NAME IS MOORE WAS SENT BY MASTER OF THE WORKHOUSE IN PLACE OF KELLY WHO WAS SICK". I believe this is my 3x great grandmother. Ann Elizabeth Rowlison (her name on her death certificate) had her parents' names as William Moore, a Tailor, and Ann O'Connell. This information was provided by her eldest living child, son William Shaw Rowlison. Ann was aged 78 when she died on 16th December, 1909 at Manilla, near Tamworth in northern New South Wales.Her burial was in the Catholic section of the cemetery. Ann may have led her children to believe those were her parents' names to hide the fact that she was an orphan from the Workhouse. Again, would the names be the parents of the Kelly girl whose place Honorah Moore took? Should the circumstances of the change of places be so quick, it's hard to believe that the Workouse Master would not have the given the correct names of Honorah Moore or her parents to be listed on a ship's log. Honorah Moore was an Irish Famine Orphan on the Ship "Maria" (supposedly the last orphan famine ship from Ireland) which arrived in Sydney on 29th June 1850. Honorah Moore's name is listed on the Glass plaque for the Irish Famie Orphan's at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, NSW.
I can find nothing about Honorah Moore in Roscrea Workhouse, but would really appreciate any help that anyone can give about this lady or her parents. All we now is she came from Roscrea, Tipperary, nothing about Townlands or anything so any little bit helps to give this lady a true name, so we can celebrate her for who she was and being such a strong young woman to survive as long a she did and also to work as a midwife helping other woemn. Ann or Honorah, married on 24/1/1853 as Ann Honorah Moore to John Rowlison Elmer (alias) (real name Richard Rowlison), a barrack's sergeant in the 11th Devonshire (North) Regiment of Foot of Victoria Barracks, Sydney. He was 24, Ann was supposedly 20. John stayed in Australia when the 11th returned to England. He was a gold escort, then a policeman in NSW for two years, later became a farmer. He died on enteric fever aged only 53, in 1882. John and Ann Elmer had three sons and two daughters. The eldest son died aged 2. Their eldest child, Mary Ann Elizabeth Rowlison Elmer (Abra) died 3 weeks before aged 28, of the same illness. Mary was my g.g. grandmother she left 6 young children, my g. grandmother Rebecca was the second child, aged 9 when Mary died. Rebecca looked after the children and kept house while her father farmed. Sadly the baby Mary,died aged 2 a year after their mother, and the other little girl, Ann, called Annie died aged 9, 3 years after her mother.
There are many descendants of this family in Australia and we would all love to know even the smallest thing about the lady we think of as Ann Elizabeth Rowlison. Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you, Lesley McNee