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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

King

Native Place

Waterford

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

James & Anty [Anastasia] (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; empl. L Toole, Kiama, £8, 12 months; married Peter Allen at Kiama 1850; 11 children; husband a labourer & farmer at Jamberoo, he is buried Bungendore. Her brother Thomas, his wife & 5 children emigrated on 'Lady Kennaway' 1854, noted from Kilmacow, Co Kilkenny, where 4 children born except James 15 born Portlaw Co Waterford. Kilmacow town is in Co Kilkenny but in the Waterford PLU this she would have been in this workhouse. Margaret died in 1876 in childbirth; buried at Kangaroo Valley.

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