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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Penrose

Native Place

Barney Brook, Wicklow

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Christopher & Catherine Doyle (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in colony, sisters Ann & Esther also on board; Empl. T Hyland, Queanbeyan, £7-8, 2 years. The 3 Penrose girls were all born on the Estate of Bonnabooka and baptised in the parish of Kilbride and Bandarrig. Bridget spent 58 days at Hyde Park Barracks then 52 days 'in the country' before joining her sister Ann at Mr Hyland's at Queanbeyan; married Protestant James Cupitt/Cupid of Mittagong 1854 at Berrima; 15 children, five died in infancy; husband a farmer, lived Mittagong. Bridget died 1910, buried in Bowral; his estate valued at £42 in 1902. 'A family story has it that Bridget liked to rock in her rocking chair in front of a fire smoking a corn pipe. Her happiest moments were when she had a baby in arms'.

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