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Participant Info

First Name

Martha

Surname

Davidson [Davison]

Native Place

Sydney, NSW

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

James & Mary Anne (mother living in Dublin)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: laundress, read & write, no relatives in colony; Martha b.11 Jun 1834 Sydney, bap.24 Aug 1834 St Phillips; family returned to Ireland apparently after a fire wiped her father's business. Appears in North Dublin Workhouse in early 1840 alone as a 6 year old, then n 1841 with her widowed mother and 4 more times until she left for to emigrate on 18 Jul 1849. Empl. Anglican minister, Edward G Pryce, Maneroo, £8, 1 year. Martha had a child by Thomas Spence, Irish convict, then married Archibald Parker, Scottish labourer at Cooma in 1856, 8 children; she died at Berridale or Woodside, Dalgety 1901; buried Gegedzerick Cemetery, Berridale, 'Manaroo Mercury' note that ‘100 persons attended to pay their last respects ... a long and painful illness of some 14 months.’

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