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Participant Info

First Name

Sarah

Surname

Lawn

Native Place

Donegal

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

Edward Lawn & Norah Cunninghame

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: housemaid, cannot read or write; initially empl. Mrs Lyddy, Queen St., £12 6 months; sisters Eleanor & Alice also on this ship, apparently all three sisters and their husbands pooled resources and headed for the gold-fields; married Thomas Plunkett, a Parkhurst exile, in Melbourne 18 Dec 1849; lived Geelong & Landsborough; c.2 children; was a midwife in the Landsbrough district; died 7 Sep 1913 [Barefoot & Pregnant? Vol 1]

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