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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Wilson

Native Place

Keady, Armagh

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

John & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, reads, cousin, John Bennett in Sydney. PRONI Armagh PLU BG2/G/2 No.2654, Crossmore [Crossmore is townland in Keady Civil parish in Armagh PLU]. Empl. as house servant by Mr A Cohen, £10, 12 months; also see other Margaret Wilson per 'Earl Grey' from Dungannon, Tyrone who went to Moreton Bay.; this girl married Andrew Wotherspoon Thorburn in Sydney in 1851 and they went to live near Auckland where they had approx 11 children and she died in 1880.

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