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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Hunt

Native Place

Londonderry [Derry], Newtownlimavady [Limavady]

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: house maid, can read & write; NT Limavady, Londonderry. Empl. J[oseph] O'Brien, [tailor] Melbourne, £8, 6 months; married James Charles Bowker 1851 at Christ Church, Geelong; in 1855 gold lured the family to Creswick; 11 children, 7 survived to adulthood; a son, John, was killed in a mining accident (1884) when 23; Margaret (died 1910) & James buried with him at the Creswick Cemetery

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