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Irish Potato Famine Orphan Catherine Kennedy

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Irish Potato Famine Orphan Catherine Kennedy

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 4:54AM GMT
Classification: Birth
Surnames: Kennedy/Cousens
I am the gggranddaughter of Catherine Kennedy of Nenagh Tipperary, who arrived aboard the Pemberton in 1849, she was supposed to go to a Patrick Kennedy of Newtown, but in June 1849, she married Joseph Cousens (Cousins) and went to live in Richmond Victoria, she has nine children the last Alice born in 1868, Catherine died of TB just after Alice was born and is buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery, in the grave are Catherine Cousin, Alice Cousins, Joseph Cousins, and three Brooks' children who are their grandchildren.
I cannot find out any information about who were Catherine's parents, on her death certificate it says Phillip, but who knows. There was a letter written and published in the Nenagh Gazette January 1850, which tells how she is. Does anyone have any clues as to how I can find out any information about her descendants in Ireland.

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