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Participant Info

First Name

Ann

Surname

Arbuckle

Native Place

Tyrone

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Derwent (Melbourne Feb 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes; Dispersal list: 'gone, taken home by her brother-in-law George Hunter of Flinders Lane, Melbourne'; married James Rix, Brighton, 28 Jul 1851, husband a labourer, farmer and carter; 8 children; lived Brighton, Kyneton & Warrenheip; died 4 Nov 1879 from injuries received in a dray accident-the dray went over a stump and she broke both thighs & received head injuries, death was instantaneous [The Australasian Sketcher with Pen & Pencil (Melbourne), 22 Nov 1879]; buried Buninyong. her two Mary & Sarah were also on the Derwent. Two other sisters, Margaret & Hannah [Mrs George Hunter had arrived on the Marquis of Bute in 1841 with her husband 4 two young children].

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