29 October 1828
NUMBER: 402
NAME: HONORA HIGGINS [see Notes]
AGE: 23
CLASS: P [sic: Prisoner]
ARRIVAL SHIP & YEAR: Elizabeth 1828 [sic: Elizabeth II (1828)]
SENTENCE: 7 years
EMPLOYMENT: not recorded
RESIDENCE: Government Factory, Parramatta [Parramatta Female Factory]
RELIGION: Catholic
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: This convict was transported under the name HONORA McCARTHY per Elizabeth II (1828) but by the time of the 1828 Census, she was using the name HONORA HIGGINS. No McCARTHY-HIGGINS marriage record has been located in the Colony to date, but the alias ‘HONORAH McCARTHY or HIGGINS’ was recorded in one of her gaol admissions in November 1835.
CITATION
Female Factory Online (femalefactoryonline.org), “1828 Census Record of HONORA McCARTHY aka HONORA HIGGINS” https://femalefactoryonline.org/dataset/1828-census/cen18281029-402/, accessed [insert current date].
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