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Participant Info

First Name

Anne

Surname

Gradon (Grady, Graydon)

Native Place

Enniskillen, Fermanagh

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Mary & James (father dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

also as Grady and Graydon. Shipping: house servant, reads & writes; Enniskillen PLU PRONI BG/14/G/5 (2155) Florence Court, Curraghglass, father James (weaver) died in workhouse 2 May 1848, mother Mary and two brothers, James & Alexander, were also in workhouse; Empl. by George Carnaby, tailor & woollen draper, Swanston St., Melbourne £8, 3 months; married John Alexander 1852 St Peters Melbourne; 5 children; husband John died in 1864; 16 year old son, John, took up his fathers cab-driver's license to support the family; Annie died 1869 of tuberculosis.

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