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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Davis

Native Place

Killare? [Killard], Westmeath

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John & Ellen (father living at Killare)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relations in colony; as Elizabeth Davis, married 1) George Henry Louis Wedemeyer on 27 Sep 1862 in 'House of Mr Wedemeyer', Gayndah, Qld; hard life; husband died 5 Oct 1885; aged 68 she remarried to 60 yo Charles Paap on 28 Jul 1898 CofE Bundaberg, he died 12 Jan 1899, after 168 days of marriage; Elizabeth died of cancer 1 May 1921 Bundaberg.

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