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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Fox

Native Place

Waterford

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Michael & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Empl. by Superintendent Innes, Cumberland St., Sydney, £8, 12 months; married 1) James Dykes in 1853 at Goulburn, 3 children; in 1864 Bridget & her children admitted to Benevolent Asylum, 2 eldest children transferred to Randwick & husband gaoled in 1865 in Sydney for 3 years for uttering a forged cheque; he was transferred to Port Macquarie in Sep 1865 & died in Sydney Dec 1867 [2134], buried Camperdown Cemetery; Bridget married 2) John Jones (a plaisterer) in Mar 1870 while working as a laundress; 1 son; John Jones died in May 1871; Bridget married 3) Henry Goddard in 1877 & he died five years later, no children located; Bridget spent her last years at the Little Sister of the Poor Home, Randwick (Ryde) until her death there in Jul 1915, aged 82, 4 children living & 2 died noted on her death certificate.

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