Orphan Number: 2278

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Friends of the Orphan Schools wrote:

This Orphan died while in care at the Orphan Schools and has no descendants. The Friends of the Orphan Schools acknowledge her. A memorial garden has been created with a plaque dedicated to her memory and all those children who died. Each year the Friends gather at Fox's Feast and pause to remember them all.

Sharon Smith wrote:

Catherine Halfpenny was the baby sister of my 3 x G Grandmother Ellen Halfpenny. She was born April 1840, in Newtown, Tipperary, Ireland... the youngest daughter of  soon to be convicts Thomas Halfpenny (Richard Webb) and Mary Foran (Hope).

Catherine travelled with four older sisters.... Johanna, Ellen, Margaret and Mary aboard the Hope with mother Mary. Left behind in Tipperary were an old sister Rose and two brothers Thomas and Patrick. 

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