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Participant Info

First Name

Frances

Surname

Rourke

Native Place

Red Hill, Cavan

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

George & Nancy (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in colony; complaint noted that the Dr struck when she was lying asleep in her berth about 12 o'clock at night. Register No.561, 8 Jun 1849, memo re il-health, indentures with Mr O'Brien cancelled & she went to hospital; married 1) George Cox 1851, Five Mile Creek, Carcoar; 8 children; married 2) Michael O'Hara 1874; she died 1883 at Mandurama; buried Carcoar.

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