Johanna (Hayes) Savage (abt. 1838 - 1878)

Born about 1838 in Limerick, Ireland

Wife of Richard Savage — married 1859 in Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 1878 at about age 40 in Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Johanna Hayes (married name Savage) was born around 1838 in Limerick, Ireland, the daughter of Mary Hayes (nee Kenneally) and Joseph Hayes.^[1] She emigrated alone from Ireland to Melbourne, Victoria, likely in 1854 aged about 19^[2]. If the dates are correct, she travelled aboard the Lord of the Isles^[3], departing Southampton August 30, 1854, arriving Adelaide 2 December. Her residence was listed as Kilkenny, occupation domestic servant.

A mere handful of a girl of 18, with brown eyes and dark hair, impressive dignity and personality, she travelled alone to Melbourne In a sailing vessel about 1855 where, apart from two families of cousins -- Linehans and Kenneallys -- she was entirely alone. Behind these exiles lay the lurid background of the famine years, 1846-47 -- terrible and merciless, "Black Forty Seven," with its hunger, death and heartbreak, when the Irish people died in hundreds beside the ditches, on the road, and in the fields.^[4]

She married Richard Savage in 1859 in Victoria, Australia.^[5][1]

Their first child, Mary, was born in Melbourne and died shortly after from diptheria. Johanna, physically ill with grief, was advised by her doctor to move north to warmer temperatures, so Richard and Johanna settled on lands granted to them at Rothesay, near Benalla.

Johanna died in 1878 in Victoria, Australia, aged 40.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Johanna Savage's death record at Births, Deaths, Marriages Victoria: Reg. No: 435; Reg. year: 1878. Retrieved 26 November 2017 by Clare Spring from https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj.
2. ↑ "Australia, South Australia, Immigrants Ship Papers, 1849-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLFX-WM9W : 15 March 2018), Johanna Hayes, ; citing Emigration, Australia, name citing , Attorney General of South Australia, Adelaide.
3. ↑ Swiggum, S. and Kohli, M. The Ships List. 1997-2019. http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/lordoftheisles1854.shtml, accessed 17 May 2019.
4. ↑ Benalla Lad Who Became Prime Minister of New Zealand (1943, June 25). Benalla Ensign (Vic. : 1938 - 1954), p. 1 (MORNING). Retrieved May 17, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65557935
5. ↑ Marriage record at Births, Deaths, Marriages Victoria: Reg. No: 4099; Reg. year: 1859. Retrieved 26 November 2017 by Clare Spring from https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj.