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Participant Info

First Name

Bessy

Surname

Early

Native Place

Clennagh [Cleenrah], Longford

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Barney & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; sister Catherine also on Digby. Im.Cor. 49/497, 7 Aug 1849 Parramatta. Register No.891, 24 Sep 1849 indentures cancelled, master leaving colony. Im.Cor. 49/721 to Bathurst but apparently went to Moreton Bay instead as was in Ipswich by May 1850; married John Fitzgerald 1851; 6 children; died 1919 Ipswich.

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