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Participant Info

First Name

Jane [Mary Jane]

Surname

Kirkwood

Native Place

Antrim, Belfast

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

George & Rose (mother living in Belfast)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives; to Moreton Bay; empl Mr William Pickering [prominent Brisbane Catholic family], North Brisbane, £14, 3 months; married Kent-born Henry Skinner, a sawyer, later a publican, in Brisbane in 1850; 7 children; lived Kangaroo Point, Tweed River, Brisbane & Ipswich, died Jan 1908, buried Presbyterian section of Toowong cemetery.

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