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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Maguire (McGuire)

Native Place

Lough Loughlin [Loughlinnan], Cavan

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Charles & Jane (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads & writes, relative in colony: an uncle Pat McGuire supposed to living in Sydney, complaint on board: her hair was cut for taking another girl's part. Also an annotation against Catherine Horrigan [who]: 'complains that the Master struck her and beat her head against the bed and then blackened the eye of Ellen McGuire who came to take her part'.

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