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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Gerity

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

John & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. NAI, Dublin, BG/78/G/4 No.17294 North Dublin Workhouse, entered 2 Nov 1846 in 'pretty good health', Union at Large, departed 22 Sep 1849; Empl. by JJ Garland, Hyde Park, Sydney, £6-9, 4 years; married Phillip Hocking Bray, Sydney, 1853, 4 children, lived Chilwell, Victoria, Sydney & Rockhampton; husband a tailor, worked for Lucas & Stewart, drapers in Rockhampton. Qld; died 18 months after her husband, in Apr 1891 of chronic alcoholism and neglect. His estate valued at £40.

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