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Voyage
Transportation
Edmund Dooling was transported on the Robert Small, departing 1st May 1853 and arriving 19th Aug 1853 with 30 passengers.
655 ton ship built in Newcastle, UK 1835. Conveyed convicts and passengers from England to Western Australia. Also carried approx. 100 free passengers. The register of convict passengers is currently being listed but not yet complete.
Robert Small (generic)References
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Convict Notes
Edmund and Mary Dooling had a little boy, named Edmund Joseph, who sadly passed at only 3 years of age.
Edmund Dooling was 27 years old on arrival. He was 5’9 ½” tall, brown hair, blue eyes, full face, fresh complexion, stout. Listed as single. 29/7/1854: TOL 11/10/1856 CP No marriage found on the WA BDM but he married Mary ??? and they had 2 daughters, Annie and Margaret Mary (also not listed on the births index). The following is an extract from http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Public/Inventory/Details/6db535ae-08bb-4806-a154-61b24a08b008 Downa House & Graveyard - Shire of Gingin - 7 Gingin Rd Gingin Also called Willowbrook Farm. Edmund and Mary Dooling bought the Swan locations, 545, 547 & 551 in the 1860's and they named their land "Downa." In approximately 1874, they engaged a professional builder, probably Matt Wallis who had built the Junction Hotel the year before, to erect a substantial mud bat shingle roofed house, which still stands by the Nolan's bridge. The roof has been replaced with iron. After the deaths of Edmund Dooling in 1894 and his wife in 1912, Michael Nolan who had married their daughter, Annie Dooling, acquired the property. They settled at Downa in 1913. A public telephone was installed at Downa on the 15th March 1929. Miss Nolan operated the telephone exchange from this date until May 1946 when the Manual Exchange closed.
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