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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Canny [Kenny]

Native Place

Ennistymon, Clare

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Michael & Mary (nee Hogan) (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, relation in colony: a cousin, John Canny [place not noted] but he married a Thomas Arbuthnot girl Ann Bohen in Yass; empl. by Mr T Digby, a baker in Yass ₤7-₤8 on day of arrival in Yass (Sat 2 Mar 1850); Mrs Digby proved to be violent-tempered. Dr Strutt resettled her with more 'Christian people'; married 1) Hugh Keon, at Beechworth, about 1852, 2 children; family moved to Wodonga by 1856. married 2) Henry Shepherd at Lambing Flat in 1862; 2 children; lived in a make-shift residence on the gold-fields at Tipperary Gully (Young). She died, after childbirth of twins, at Young 1869.

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