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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Devlin

Native Place

Kady [Keady], Armagh

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Arthur & Rosanna (mother living near Armagh)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads; Armagh PLU BG/2/G/1 (608) (1324) (2396) (3700) (5660) BG2/G/2 (1507) with family, first into the workhouse with Rose, her 39 year old widowed mother & 2 young brothers when she was 9; sister Sarah also on Earl Grey & in the workhouse; after being in and out about 7 times they both left on 24 May 1848 to board the Earl Grey ship; Empl. Thomas Small, Clarence River, £10, 2 years; Im Cor letters concerning seduction by William Small, son of employer, Thomas Small - attempt by Orphan Cttee to get maintenance of the resulting child, William Henry Small; Register 2 No.938 18 Jul 1850 John Foulis requests to be relieved of her; illegitimate dau. Rosanna by William Belcher, a seaman; orphan wages, 11 Jul 1851 Mr Merryweather's cheque; 23 Dec 1850 payment for maintenance child; married Joseph Kerrison in 1853 at Parramatta, Joseph had come as a convict noted as married on the indent of the Waterloo 1838; they then lived MacLeay River, Kempsey; 7 children; Margaret died Sep 1905.

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