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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Walsh [Welsh]

Native Place

Ballinrobe, Mayo

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Michael & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

Shipping: needle woman, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; Empl. T Thicknesse, Wollongong, £7-8, 2 years; Im. Cor. 50/352 & 50/365 indentures at Wollongong; married London-born Joseph James (aka William) Thompson, a shoemaker in Queanbeyan CofE, 21 Apr 1853; 5 children; husband died 29 Jan 1867; Bridget died 13 May 1898, both buried Queanbeyan.

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