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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Blair

Native Place

Ballymenagh [Ballymena], Antrim

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Charles & Elizabeth (both dead)

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in colony. PLU Ballymena PLU BG/4/G/2 (49) Union at large; empl. Mr P Friell, Paddington, near Sydney, £9, 2 years indenture; Register No.262 30 Nov 1848, transfer from Philip Friell to Rev Charles Woodward, Headmaster, Sydney College, Hyde Park, allowed by committee; orphan wages: Empl Rev Charles Woodward in 1849 & empl Elizabeth Underwood, Ashfield by Oct 1849; Rev John McGarvie applied for her as house servant 12 Mar 1849, response was to sent her to the country, No.901 2 Oct 1849 Moreton Bay; married John Hardgrave in Brisbane in 1850, husband a shoemaker, 8 children; died 1924, buried Toowong. Husband's estate valued at £9250.

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