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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Burke

Native Place

Currafin [Corofin], Clare

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

Corrofin's workhouse was built in second wave of building so Bridget would have been in the Ennistymon PLU. Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Empl. as house servant by Mr Edward (Ned). Ryan, Galong, near Yass ₤8, 1 year from Yass Depot. Married 1) John Somers of Galong 51, 1 child; marr 2) Michael Coughlan at Burrowa 1857; 6 children born Walla Walla & Binalong; Bridget died at Cootamundra 1906

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