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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Willoughby [Welby]

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Connor & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Biddy Willoughby aged 5 first entered South Dublin workhouse pm 14 <au 1840 & finally left on 30 Mar 1850; shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; 1858-9 Report, Appendix J No.210, 31 Jan 1851 indentures with James Beattie cancelled for absconding; married Michael Purcel [Purcill etc] RC Bathurst 1852; 9 children born Kelso, Lyndhurst, Blayney, Cootamundra, Carcoar; husband died aged 91 in 1909 at Burraga; Bridget was living with a daughter when she died of cancer at Bodangora, near Wellington NSW in 1915.

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