Descendants of thousands of Irish teenage girls sent to Australia during the Great Famine gather annually in Melbourne to honor their ancestors. The aim was to provide domestic servants and wives for convicts, helping populate the colony and ease pressure on Irish workhouses.
Every year descendants of the thousands of orphaned Irish teenage girls sent to Australia during the Great Famine gather in Melbourne to remember them
Most gathered at Famine Rock are descendants of more than 1,200 orphan girls sent to Melbourne. Others are not. But all pay tribute to the resilience of those brave teenagers journeying from hunger to hope so long ago. It’s a miracle to me that Lucy and the other Earl Grey girls remained healthy enough to be chosen to come to Australia in the first placeThe determination of the Irish to integrate and contribute in their new lives, while keeping alive pride in their native ground – that is the story of the diaspora.
Sisters Pam Jones, Sue Jacques and Judy Goodson, great-great-granddaughters of Lucy Ellis, an orphan sent from Newry Workhouse to Melbourne in 1850, when she was 16 “The cold, stone buildings, long dormitories with one very tiny fire at the end of two long rooms, high windows that you couldn’t see out of, families separated, overcrowded – and the list goes on. It’s a miracle to me that Lucy and the other Earl Grey girls remained healthy enough to be chosen to come to Australia in the first place.”
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