Details Page

Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Callery (Gallery)

Native Place

Mohill, Leitrim

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Edward & Nelly (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Inchinnan (Sydney 13 Feb 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Im. Cor. 49/328 Parramatta; 50/357 re 7 girls on 'Shamrock' to Eden/Twofold Bay; married Joseph Poole at Cooma 1851; 7 children; husband labourer & bushman, lived Bemboka & Bega, probably worked at Kameruka where Joseph worked when a convict; had child a year after her husband died, claimed maintenance from the 18 yo father who allegedly raped her; her case was dismissed, the magistrate lecturing her on 'dragging the good name of this young man before the courts'! See 'Bega Gazette' 6 & 28 Oct 1886; 13 Oct she inherited £100 from her 'son' Joseph of Brown Mt. near Bega; died 1887.

Story