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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Greely (Creely, Greehy)

Native Place

Not recorded

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Elgin (Adelaide 12 Sep 1849)

Details

Margaret Greely married John Ashwood 15 May 1852 at RC Adelaide; 3 children located; in 1872 a daughter, Sarah Ashwood alias Norgrove (single woman), and William Norgrove were charged with stealing bacon-in 1874 Sarah spend time in Adelaide hospital; in the Wallaroo Times, Nov 1879, Margaret stated that her husband had gone ‘up north’ and a long article in 1884 shows that their son Joseph had been in Wallaroo gaol when aged 10, later on the Kadina Hulk in Dec 1879 & then the Magill Reformatory School but released to his father in 1880 but back and forward to the hulk during the early 1880s; the paper also contains a general discussion about his chosen religion while on the hulk; by Aug 1886 Joseph was charged with breaking into a premises & stealing; in 1900 he was charged with unlawful possession of two bottles of whiskey; Margaret and John Ashwood lived at Wallaroo Mines; Margaret in hospital in 1885; died on 26 May 1903; John had pre-deceased her on 20 May 1888.

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