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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

Robert Connelley and family-1838 IOM-Australia

Someone might find this information useful.
I found on the passenger list for the "Hero of Malown"
that left Liverpool on 20 November 1838.
Robert Connelly 30 years- Shoemaker -from IOM -Prodestant and he could Read and write . With him was his wife Mary and two sons Joseph and Benjamin.
Sadly, Robert was the only one of his family to survive the voyage.
Many children died from a measles outbreak.
My William Campbell was also on the voyage. He also lost his baby son to this disease.
Cheers Erla