Researching Irish Australians

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Researching Irish Australians is written by Brian Trainor and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0901905909 (ISBN 10) and 9780901905901 (ISBN 13).

This directory provides short histories of some 5,000 of the Irish who settled in Australia in the last century. Included also are over 500 abstracts of Irish-Australian wills taken from the printed Irish will calendars 1858-1900. High and low in society are to be found there ranging from a State Governor like Sir Arthur Kennedy of Queensland down to John Augustin Martin, a billiard marker of Inverell, New South Wales, whose estate was valued at £250 when he died in 1892. Significantly, over 80 abstracts relate to women, an important feature since documentation about individual women is meagre.