Biography
O'Farrell was born in Arran Quay, Dublin, Ireland, the youngest child of William O'Farrell, a butcher. The family moved to Liverpool, then later migrated to Victoria (Australia). Henry O'Farrell was an alcoholic, and had been released from a lunatic asylum immediately before the attempted assassination. He had been briefly employed by his brother, a Melbourne solicitor, who also had offices in Ballarat, and is therefore sometimes described as a law clerk. But his most recent occupation was selling fruit and vegetables in Ballarat's Haymarket.
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