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Participant Info

First Name

Eliza

Surname

White

Native Place

Naas, Kildare

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

John & Eliza (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; Empl. E Dunn, Double Bay, £7-8, 2 years; born in Dublin c.1834, father innkeeper, mother nee Shaw; married John Brown 1857-he a gardener, later Chief Attendant at Lunatic Asylum, Parramatta; 7 children; 1877 family moved to Rushcutters Bay. John died 1911, Eliza died 1918, both buried South Head cemetery. Although married and buried by the rites of the Anglican Church, Eliza's allegiance remained to the RC Church & she attended Mass until the last years of her life; photograph of Eliza in Barefoot vol. 2 p.212.

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