POWELLS: Tulla, County Clare, to Victoria, Australia

POWELL Families from Tulla, County Clare, who migrated to Australia

POWELLs who migrated to Australia from Tulla, County Clare:

(1) Thomas POWELL:

Thomas POWELL (c1813-1877) and his wife, Susanna POWELL (nee McNAMARA) (c1818-1856), emigrated to Australia age 27 from County Clare, Ireland, on the 'William Metcalfe' on 15 Nov 1839 (Public Records Office Victoria book 2, page 5).

Thomas POWELL was the son of Cornelius POWELL (1790-?) and Mary MARONEY/MAROONEY who resided in the townland of Affick (then also known as 'Affog'/'Affugg'/'Affogh'/'Affagh') in the parish of Tulla, Co Clare, Ireland.

The County Clare Council Library has a List of Freeholders [including landlords and tenants] in County Clare, 1821. It includes Thomas POWELL with the place of abode at Affogh, barony of Tulla:

Tenant Freeholder Place of Situation of Landlord Barony

Abode Freehold

Surname Forename Surname Forename

POWELL Thomas LILLIS Patrick Affogh Affog RJ FLEMMING Tulla

POWELL Thomas DIGADAN Michael Affogh Affogh RJ FLEMMING Tulla

Thomas POWELL's obituary in the 'Geelong Advertiser' records that he was a much respected old colonist, businessman, family man and community supporter. He was a successful hotelier and brewer in Geelong and Stawell, Victoria.

(2) Connor POWELL:

Connor POWELL (c1800-1870) and Ellen CAHIR (c1802-1895) and their children (Michael, Patrick, Dennis, Maria, Martin and Margaret), from Tulla, Co Clare Ireland, left London for Melbourne on the 'Neptune', arriving on 29 Mar 1841. They were bounty migrants, introduced into the Colony of Port Phillip by the agent John Marshall of London.

Connor and Ellen POWELL and their children resided in the townland of Tyredagh in the parish of Tulla, Co Clare, Ireland. The entries of Martin POWEL and Margaret POWEL, their children, in the baptismal register for the parish of Tulla indicate that it was this townland where they lived as at 17 Oct 1837 and 28 June 1840 respectively.

Connor POWELL was a blacksmith.

(3) John POWELL:

Connor and Ellen POWELL were accompanied on their migation to Australia (on the 'Neptune' on 29 Mar 1841) by Ann POWELL (20, laundress), Cornelius POWELL (19 labourer) and John POWELL (18 labourer). It isn't clear what relationship John POWELL was to Connor POWELL but I believe that Connor was John's uncle, he was a son of Cornelius POWELL (1790-?) and brother of Thomas POWELL (c1813-1877).

John POWELL (c1820-1899) married Catherine DONOHUE (c1832-1909) on 27 Jun 1847 at St Mary's Catholic Church, Geelong, Victoria. His occupation in Australia ranged from a miner, to blacksmith, to labourer and farmer.

(4) Daniel POWELL:

There is another line of POWELLs of County Clare, Ireland, who may be related to the above POWELLs. It is Daniel POWELL, son of James POWELL and Bridget POWELL (nee MARONEY). Daniel, a farmer, was born abt 1824 in County Clare and he died on 15 December 1896 at Clark's Hill, Bungaree, near Ballarat, Victoria. It is possible that Bridget MARONEY and Mary MARONEY were sisters.