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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Kent

Native Place

Loughrea, Galway

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

John & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony. Empl as kitchen maid by Governor Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Sydney, £8, 1 year; married William Henry Freeman 7 Jul 1855 at St James CofE Sydney; fellow shipmate Bridget Walsh, also working for Gov Fitzroy, witnessed the marriage

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