![]() The story is told from their various points of view, and to a large extent from that of Charles Strutt himself. Refugees? Or slave girls?Įvelyn Conlon has used the diary of Charles Strutt and other archival and secondary sources as the basis of her imaginative and thoughtful reconstruction of the voyage of the Thomas Arbuthnot, and of the subsequent fate of a small selection of the transported orphans: Honora, Julia, Bridget and Anne. ![]() During a few years following the Famine, 4,000 Irish girls, orphans, were shipped to Australia in this way. They had been recruited from poorhouses all over Ireland by Charles Strutt, a surgeon who supervised their voyage. Its main cargo was a group of Irish girls, orphans, who were being dispatched to the antipodes to work as servants and farmhands. ![]() In October 1849, a ship called the Thomas Arbuthnot set sail from Plymouth for Australia. ![]()
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