CARRAGHER Family
9 February 1921 – 12 August 2004
Born 30 March 1923
Origin Ireland & Scotland
Accompanying Family Wife Catherine, Daughter Rose & Son Eugene.
First settled in Scaddan, WA
Original Occupation Rigger
Occupation in Australia Depot Manager with Cockburn Cement for 34 yrs
ORONTES
Departure Port Tilbury, UK
Arrival Year 1949
Fremantle
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Eugene Carragher went overseas on this same ship with the British Army during WW2. It was then called THE QUEEN OF BARMUDA. After the war it was converted to a passenger ship called the ORONTES, on which he and his family came to Australia.
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