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Participant Info

First Name

Eliza

Surname

McCready

Native Place

Downpatrick, Down

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

John & Eliza (both dead)

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; Armagh PLU BG/2/G/1 Nos 2803 & 5703, third admission [found by Trevor McClaughlin]; to Moreton Bay; Empl. Mr J Douglass, Goodna, near Ipswich, £14, 6 months; married ex-convict Robert Patterson Bannister in Brisbane, in 1849; he was a butcher in Ipswich for many years; 4 children Eliza died of tetanus in 1862 when Mary, her youngest, was 9 months old.

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