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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Dore

Native Place

Rathkeale, Limerick

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Cornelius & Ellen (father in Rathkeale)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

Shipping: houseservant, reads only, no relatives in colony. Im. Cor 50/583, one of 5 sent to Moreton Bay on the evening steamer 2 Aug 1850 (Bridget Dore, Catherine Connally, Judith Fagan, Judith Sheehan & Johanna Dillon); 10 children, first born Qld, next 5 in Sydney & last 4 in Brisbane; husband drowned in Brisbane River in 1875; one daughter raised her family in New Zealand and another went to Melbourne; Bridget died 1906 in Sydney.

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