Posted by Emigre on May 24, 2001 at 02:01:11:
In Reply to: Grosse Ile posted by Ahem on May 24, 2001 at 01:50:01:
From Murrisk's posting May 23:-
Name: RODRICK, Mary
Age: 11
Date of Entry: 9/7/47
Father: Michael
Mother: Honora Burgan
Parish: Rathdowny
County: Queens
Vessel: Naparima
Adopted by: ?
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Name: RODRICK, Pat
Age: 5
Date of Entry: 9/7/47
Father: Michael
Mother: Honora BURGAN
Parish: Rathdowny
County: Queens
Vessel: Naparima
Adopted by: ?
From Ahem's posting May 23:-
In his diary, Gerald Keegan, a doctor aboard the Naparima in 1847, described a night a few days before they reached Grosse Ile. They were anchored in the river, with another coffin ship upstream from them. He and his wife, Aileen, were standing on deck when they noticed several forms floating by in the dark river. As he looked over the side, one of the forms caught on the anchor cable and he recognized that it was a body. The ship ahead of them was throwing the bodies of dead emigrants over the side. Keegan and his wife would not suffer the fate of those poor souls drifting down the St. Lawrence, but both would perish in the fever ridden hospital of Grosse Ile.