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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Ross

Native Place

Roscarne [Roscarn], Fermanagh

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads; from Rosscairn when empl. by James Richardson, Lonsdale St., Melbourne £6, 12 months; married 1851, Melbourne to Van Dieman's Land ex-convict Bernard [Barney] Reynolds (b.1817 Cavan, per 'Emerald Isle' 1843, d.Dec 1877); 8 children; Margaret became destitute when her husband went to gaol in 1869. Her youngest children went into Industrial School and some of the older ones to gaol. One son, Barny Reynolds, was later secretary to John Wren.

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