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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Wire

Native Place

Offaly?

Age On Arrival

no record

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Not recorded

Ship Name

Inconstant (Adelaide Jun 1849)

Details

Bridget Wire possibly bap 16 Feb 1831 at Tubber, Kill, Kilmanahan, Rosemount parish, Offaly, parents Dennis Wire & Rose Dooly; not on list of passengers in South Australian Register, 9 Jun 1849 but appears in SAA GRG 48/4 (No.404) ‘Females sent over from the orphan Depot’ as Bridget Wire, 15 years old, 2 years in colony, per Inconstant, servant, near confinement, reputed father ... Walker of Para Plains, relieved in institution 19 May-3 Jul 1851; is possibly Bridget Weir who married James Fowler 7 Oct 1851 RC Adelaide; James Fowler, grocer, aged 27, died on 13 Feb 1858 at Mitcham, Adelaide.

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