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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Clarke

Native Place

Menalty [Moynalty], Meath

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Michael & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in colony. Married WM Chadwick 1854, at Sydney. William died aged 39 in 1863 leaving Bridget with 5 children under aged of 8. Bridget's sons founded their own building society (The Equitable and Permanent Building Land & Savings Institution). Bridget lived at Botany for many years and died at Strathfield in 1905, aged 67.

Story

Clarke, Mary & Bridget