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Participant Info

First Name

Anastasia [Mary]

Surname

Brophy

Native Place

Johns Town [Johnstown], Kilkenny

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

John & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lismoyne (Sydney 29 Nov 1849)

Details

shipping: farm servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; born 1 Sep 1834. Empl. William Ellis, Palmer St, £6-8, 3 years. 1858-9 Report on Female Immigrants, Appendix J No.249, 15 Aug 1851 indentures with Mr W Ellis cancelled for continued insolence & disobedience of orders - also noted on orphan wages; married 1) Michael Doonan at St Mary's 1853, 1 son; married 2) Henry Bruniges, Newcastle 1855, 10 children; the family ran a boarding house and mixed business in Merewether, Newcastle, for many years. Henry died 1897; Anastasia died 1903, buried Sandgate, Newcastle.

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