In the space of two years more than 4,000 young Irish female orphans left workhouses in Newry, County Down, for Australia.
BBC News NI south-east reporter
"They make their way to a depot where they stay. Employers come to the depot. Lucy was employed by a Mr George Hollis."It was probably in a horse and cart that his man came down to collect her so you are really at their mercy. "Conditions in the workhouse by 1848, which was at the peak of the famine, were absolutely dire," he said.
"There was a great deal of disease and a high mortality rate. It was either go to Australia or probably die in the workhouse.
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