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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Dowd

Native Place

Loughrea, Galway

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

John & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in colony; Im. Cor. 50/540 Moreton Bay depot; Register 2 No.764 6 May 1850 Indentures as house servant with Mr A Phillips, Ipswich, £6-8, 3 years; married 1) Michael Samuel Gill at Ipswich 1851; 5 children, husband a cooper who lost his left arm in an accident & became storekeeper & sodawater maker in Bell St., Ipswich; between 1858-73 she had 6 children with Patrick Edwards who she married in 1879 after death of Michael Gill in Nov 1878; lived Little Ipswich & Dalby; died 1917, 24 years after Patrick; buried Dalby.

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