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Participant Info

First Name

Susan

Surname

Gordon

Native Place

Armagh [Armaghbrague parish]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Margaret

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, reads. Tyrone. Armagh Workhouse Register PRONI Armagh PLU BG2/G/1 (2462) from Parish Armaghbreague [Armaghbrague] Corkley townland [parish Keady], first admitted to workhouse 20 Mar to 16 Oct 1844 aged 12 years, with mother Margaret Mallon (57), sisters Martha (10) and Matilda (7) and brother John (14) in a starving condition; thereafter admitted many times, thinly clothed & destitute but clean, until last admitted 1 May 1849, discharged 4 Oct 1849. Empl. by Charles Savage, Stockton, Deep Creek, £9, 6 months; married John Hadley, Melbourne, 16 Dec 1850 with consent of her legal guardian W Lonsdale (see 'Barefoot & Pregnant?' vol 2, p.26 for names of Melbourne Orphan Cttee); 11 children; lived Bulla & Sunbury area until c.1863; by 1864 settled in Tinamba, Gippsland where she died 25 Sep 1888; buried Maffra (has headstone).

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