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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Cooke (Cook)

Native Place

Carberry, Kings [Offaly]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Matthew & Mary (mother living in Carberry)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relative in colony; Empl. J Caldwell, Pitt St., £7-8, 2 years. 1858-8 Report, Appendix J No.212, 31 Jan 1851 indentures with Mr J Caldwell cancelled for disobedience, to be sent up the country for employment; orphan wages 7 Feb 1851 empl John Caldwell; married Ebenezer Johnson, a sailor at CofE Newcastle 1851; ended up in QLD, where she ran a pub and her husband a coastal shipping business until he abandoned her and their half dozen children.

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