Judith Pound was born Circa 1830 - the daughter of William and Mary (Meade/Neill) of Brownstown. She was baptised at Dunkerrin Roman Catholic Church on 14 Feb 1830, the sponsors were John Pendirgast and Mary Spain. Her brother John was baptised on 18 Dec 1832 - sponsors James and Mary Keane. Her sister Mary was baptised 29 March 1835 with James and Maer Guilfoyle as sponsors.
During the famine years Judith ended up in Roscrea Workhouse, presumably around 1847. Admittance records were not available at Thurles, so we don't know whether her siblings also were admitted, nor what happened to her parents. In 1848 Judith was one of 60 girls from Roscrea Workhouse selected under the Earl Grey Scheme for immigration to Austrlia. From the Workhouse Minute book (no. 9) we know her journey from Roscrea to Australia began around 19th Jan, 1949 by being "shipped on the steamer 'Devonshire:' to Plymouth. One of 60 girls from Roscrea Workhouse, joing a further 247 girls from various other Irish workhouses, they set sail on the Pemberton on 22 January 1849 - arriving in Port Philip bay on May 14th, 1849, a journey of some 112 days at sea. The Pemberton manifest of the girls lists Judith as an 18 year old nursery maid of RC faith, who could neither read nor write. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1204/images/IMAUS1787_…
Her sea voyage wasn't quite over, she then sailed on a coastal steamer the 'Raven" arriving at Portland, Victoria on June 23rd, 1949 to begin her working life before marrying James Booth at the Warnambool RC schoolhouse on 24th May, 1851 and bearing 12 children, 8 of whom survived to adulthood. She became a widow in 1887 and a further two of her adult son's predeceased her. Her last years were spent at her son Thomas's dairy farm, supported by an annual pension from her policeman son William's estate, when she died on January 10th, 1912, thousands of miles from her native land and almost 63 years after she left Ireland, for a hard but better life, than she had in as an inmate of Roscrea Workhouse.