Ellen Harrington 1821 : Short Biography

Ellen Harrington 1821

Elphin (Roscommon)

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Place of migration

Migrated to/Born in Australia

Ellen or Eleonoram Harrington 23 Jun 1821

Elphin

Parents: Thomas Harrington and Maria or Mary Kelly

Ellen Immigrant to Australia with her bother Thomas on the Crasader arrival 1840

Both parents may of been dead with they Immigrated

Ellen married James Nugent from Westmeath in West Maitland, NSW 1847

Thomas, Ellen's father may of had a sister Margaret and bothers Nicholas and William

Additional Information
Date of Birth	23rd Jun 1821
Date of Death	31st Dec 1869

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191 of the passengers on the Crusader came from Elphin, including some of my ancestors. It must have been a terrible time in Ireland for so many of them to leave

Jill McCann

Thursday 29th October 2020 10:15PM

Do you know exactly where she was from?

I am related to Harringtons from the Balinameen (Acres townsland) area. My 3x great grandfather was born @ 1829. He married Mary Dowd and they had 9 children including my great grandmother Catherine (b. 1861) her sister Margaret (b. 1856). At least three girls (Catherine, Rose and Sara) emigrated to the U.S.

Perhaps we are related.

Janet Cole

Janet

Saturday 26th February 2022 03:51PM

Ellen marred James Nugent (of Westmeath), at West Maitland, NSW on 18 April 1847. The couple had five children, and became involved in the running of an inn, the Gordon Arms Hotel, in the small town of Lochinvar. In 1859 James Nugent was declared insolvent, with debts of £133 15s 6d. Both he and Ellen had run-ins with the law over alcohol, and anti-social behaviour. Ellen died in 1869 and James on 17 November 1977. One of their children, Thomas, became the leader of a band of cattle and horse thieves known as the Ragged Thirteen, who joined together on a journey in 1885 across the top of Australia to the newly discovered gold fields at Halls Creek, in far northern Western Australia. Several books have been written about the Thirteen and their adventures, and Tom has his own entry in the Northern Territory's Who's Who. Tom went on to found a 600 square mile cattle property known as Banka Banka, which continues to operate today, though it passed out of Tom's family in 1941.