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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Kelly

Native Place

Loughreagh [Loughrea], Galway

Age On Arrival

20

Parents

John & Biddy (father living in Loughreagh, Galway)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Inchinnan (Sydney 13 Feb 1849)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read nor write, relations in colony, sister of Mary Kelly, also per Inchinnan, 3 cousins at Port Phillip, named John, James and Henry Gibbons; complains that the surgeon pulled her up on deck and kept her there for two hours, has taken out a summons for him [SMH 16 Mar 1849, p.2]. Register No.948, 18 Oct 1849 as Bridie Kelly, Castlereagh St., WPO; Indentues with Mr William Bolton cancelled; to be forwarded up the country.

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