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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Price

Native Place

Not recorded

Age On Arrival

no record

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Not recorded

Ship Name

Inconstant (Adelaide Jun 1849)

Details

On list of passengers in ‘South Australian Register’, 9 Jun 1849; when aged 17, probably married 25 year old Thomas Irving [alias ‘California Tom’] on 4 May 1852 at St George Church, Gawler [13/161]; 2 children: Mary Ann born c.1856, died 17 Feb 1864 aged 8 years & George died 3 Jul 1858 aged 7 months; Margaret died 26 Jun 1858, aged 22 at Mount Pleasant [8/75] in the arms of her husband. She had been ill for some time (apparently with consumption) and her ‘attentive and affectionate husband’ had made every attempt to help her including walking 30 miles to obtain medicine and advice from Surgeon Friend E Colyer who reported on the death, adding that their youngest child was also in poor health, suffering from ‘inflammation of the lungs’ and, as noted above, died a week later. The elder child, Mary Ann, was placed in the care of a ‘highly respectable family in Blumenberg’ but also died, aged 8.

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