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1849.
    11   Ibid., 2 May 1849.
    12   1849 ‘Shipping Intelligence’ , South Australian Register ( Adelaide, SA: 1839–1900), 12 September, p. 3, viewed 15 October, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50247741.
    13   Ibid., 28 March 1849.
    14   Ibid., 19 October 1849.
    15   ‘The method of selection adopted by him was a simple one. As the girls sat in the workhouse refectory he walked amongst them making his choice.’ ‘Irish Orphan Emigration to Australia 1848-1850’ by Joseph A. Robins in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review , Vol. 57, No. 228 (Winter 1968).
    16   Minutes of Listowel Board of Guardians, 12 September 1849 (held in Kerry Local History Library, Tralee).
    17   Minutes of Board of Guardians Listowel Union Workhouse, 12 September 1849 (held in Local History Section Tralee Library).
    18   Ibid., 11 October 1849.
    19    Kerry Examiner , 8 February 1847.
    20   Captain Hotham to the Commissioners, 4 January 1848, Poor Law Commissioners, Papers relating to the relief of distress , p. 300.
    21   Minutes of Board of Guardians Dingle Workhouse 17 March 1849 (held in Kerry Local History Library, Tralee).
    22   Ibid., 22 September 1849.
    23   Ibid., 15 September 1849.
    24   Ibid., 5 October 1849.
    25   Ibid., 10 October 1849.
    26    London Illustrated News , October 1849.
    27   Minutes of Board of Guardians Eingle Union Workhouse, 6 November 1849 (held in Local History Section, Tralee Library), 70/353.
    28   Gray, Famine Land & Politics , p. 62-5, quoted in Gerard J. Lyne, The Landsdowne Estate in Kerry under the agency of William Steuart Trench 1849–72 (Dublin 2001), p. xxxii.
    29   Ibid., p. xxxv.
    30   Ibid., p. xxxv.
    31   Gerard J. Lyne, Taylors of Dunkerron , in Journal of KAHS No. 17, 1984, p. 72.
    32   Minutes Kenmare Board of Guardians, Wednesday 29August 1849, p. 82 (held in Kerry Local History Library, Tralee).
    33   Ibid., 22 September 1849.
    34   Minutes Kenmare Board of Guardians, Wednesday 31 October 1849, p. 186 (held in Kerry Local History Library, Tralee).
    35   Ibid., 12 November 1849.
    36   Ibid., 17 November 1849.
    37   William Steuart Trench , Realities of Life (Longmans, London 1869), p. 116.
    38   Ibid.
    39   Minutes Kenmare Board of Guardians, 29 November 1849.
    40   Ibid.
    41   Trevor McClaughlin, History Ireland, Accessed online http://www.historyireland.com/volumes/volume8/issue4/features/?id=245 , 3 January 2013.
    42   Christine Kinealy, This Great Calamity, The Irish Famine 1845–52 (Dublin 1994, 2006), p. 324.
    43   Joseph Robins, The Lost Children: A Study of Charity Children in Ireland 1700–1900 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration 1980), p. 208.
    44   The Tithe Applotment Books are a vital source for genealogical research for the pre-Famine period/ They were compiled between 1823 and 1837 in order to determine the amount, which occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland (the main Protestant church and the church established by the State until its dis-establishment in 1871). There is a manuscript book for almost every civil (Church of Ireland) parish in the country giving the names of occupiers of each townland, the amount of land held and the sums to be paid in tithes.
    45   Minutes of Listowel Board of Guardians, 7 March 1850 (Kerry County Library, Tralee).
    46    http://www.thenoones.id.au/08_CATH_SHIP/cath_ship.html .

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BACKGROUND TO THE GIRLS
    T HE ONLY INFORMATION available to us, from workhouse records, on the background of each individual girl is a name and, in a few cases, the electoral area from which the girl had been registered when they were selected for the emigration process. However, as recorded in the example below, 1 the age groups and the capacity of each inmate for work were included, as were the number admitted each week, the number already there and the number who died or were discharged. Also included were the auxiliary