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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Cannon

Native Place

Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John & Biddy (mother lives in Carrick)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, read & write, no relatives in colony; empl by Michael O'Brien, Church St, Sydney ₤10, 2 years; 1858-9 Report on Irish Female Immigrants, Appendix J No.41, 12 Oct 1849 Indentures with Michael O'Brien cancelled for general misconduct; Register 1 Nos 937 & 940 15 Oct 1849 gone to Moreton Bay; married John Smith, Brisbane 1850; 10 children; lived Ipswich; in 1891 she took her violent husband to court for threatening her & a son with a pitchfork - he was fined ₤20 & bound to keep the peace for six months; she died 1897.

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