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Australia Bound - The Female Orphans of Newry Workhouse 1848-50

Newry and Mourne Museum, Bagenal's Castle, Castle Street, Newry, County Down, BT34 2BY
Paupers Graveyard Newry

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Local historian, Hugh McShane will give a talk at Newry and Mourne Museum on the plight of 35 female orphan girls who left Newry Workhouse to travel to Australia during the 1800s.

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