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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Harrington

Native Place

Cashel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Daniel & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in colony; Empl. by Mr P Mulroney, Sydney [probably Patrick Mulroney, grocer, Old South Head Road, in 1851 Directory ], £10, 2 years. Register 3 No.227, 25 Feb 1851 JE Tucker requests permission for her marriage to David Burke which she did the next month; at least 4 children 1852-65, the youngest 3 & Bridget spend time in Benevolent Asylum at least in 1861 & 1865 when her husband was in gaol for violence to her; by 1871 he was in Maitland Gaol; both Bridget and her husband disappear after 1865.

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