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Participant Info

First Name

Sarah Jane

Surname

Wylie

Native Place

Banbridge, Down

Age On Arrival

20

Parents

James & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: farm house servant, reads & writes, no relative in colony. Empl. as house servant by I Bernie?, George St., Sydney £10, 12 months; married William McFadden, a Donegal-born, policeman, Sydney, 30 Apr 1849; lived Sydney, Yass & Carcoar; 7 ch; she died 10 Jul 1902. Her grandson, Sid Beck, was National breaststroke Champion in 1920 and later one of the great Australian vaudeville comics of the 1920s & 1930s.

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