From Irish workhouse to Australian colonies during the potoato famine

Updated May 29 2017 - 2:31pm, first published 12:00pm
'Famine bride' Catherine Burke-Stuart's son Charles, his wife and family. Catherine was 15 when she arrived on the Lady Kennaway with two sisters at Port Phillip in 1848.
'Famine bride' Catherine Burke-Stuart's son Charles, his wife and family. Catherine was 15 when she arrived on the Lady Kennaway with two sisters at Port Phillip in 1848.

MORE than 4000 Irish girls and women came to Australia from Irish workhouses during the potato famine in the mid-1800s.