Catherine Sheedy and Patrick Griffin
Preface by Jenny Fawcett

Catherine Sheedy was a Monteagle Immigrant from the Shanagolden
region of Limerick, and arrived NSW in 1839 per Aliquis
with her brother Thomas Sheedy 

Also aboard the Aliquis 1839, was Ann Blackburn & 
Christopher Russell, whose daughter Ann Russell later married 
Patrick Kelly [of The Willows-Michelago], and whose daughter 
Ann Kelly [b1852] m PATRICK SHEEDY [known as Narrabunda Pat], 

Catherine Sheedy,a 25 year old servant came per Aliquis and 
was engaged by Mr Niel of King Street in Sydney [1839]. 
Catherine married Pat Griffin, who along with his  brother William 
and two sisters as well as his widowed father had come to Sydney on 
the Aliquis in 1839  and they lived about eight miles from 
Shangolden in Ireland. 

Catherine and Patrick Griffin lived in Surrey Hills for about 
10 years where they had at least six children. In the early 1850s 
they moved to Orange where Patrick purchased a farm which he named 
Shanid after the barony in which he had lived in Ireland. Patrick 
died in 1885.   


Catherine Sheedy
born c:		c1814.Shanagolden.Limerick.  [src.Norma Sheedy]

parents:	Francis Sheedy -shoemaker - Ballycormack,Ire
		& Mary Mangan. 	           

religon:	Roman Catholic		 

occupation:	servant.               [1839 shipping record]

literacy:	

death:		
burial:

shipping arrivals:
		1. 16th March 1839 to Sydney per Aliquis
		with brother Thomas Sheedy.  [shipping record]

married:	October 4 1841 Sydney.N.S.W.

spouse:		 Patrick Griffin.
born         
parents:       
died.            
buried.          
		
History:


Children:




Family Researchers/informants:
Norma Sheedy.                  49 Wolger Street, Como, NSW, 2226.
Eileen Williams 
Catherine Burke	

Notes
* = sighted original record.