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Participant Info

First Name

Susan (Susannah)

Surname

Brien [Bryan, O'Brien]

Native Place

Kilcullen, Kildare

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Nicholas & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in colony; Empl. by H Isler a merchant tailor in Pitt St, Sydney £6 3 years; married at to 37 year-old ex-convict Edward Waltham who had had served 7 years in VDL, leaving wife & 4 ch in England; Susan & Edward had 4 children before his death from horse accident in 1864; married 2)1864 to William Smith; lived at Kelso until about 1878 when family moved to Tamworth; Susannah died at Tamworth 1907.

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