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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Hughes

Native Place

Armagh [Armagh Town]

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads; probably in workhouse [Armagh BG/2/A/1 (5929)] as Margaret Hughes, aged 10 child of Elizabeth Hughes (No.5928), 51, widow; RC, thinly clothed & hungry, Meddletown town [Midleton?], entered workhouse 30 Nov 1846, left 4 Oct 1849 and her mother left 29 Dec 1846; also John 15 & Thomas 18 listed below Margaret & Elizabeth Hughes simply as single men, RC but they came in the same day from the same place: John left 29 Dec 1846 same day as his possible mother, and Thomas left 4 Dec 1846. Margaret was from the Town of Armagh when empl. by Andrew Hickey at Warron [Waurn] Ponds, Geelong, £6, 12 months, apprentice; married Scotsman, John Simpson at Geelong in Feb 1853 witnessed by Elizabeth Hickey, probable wife of her employer; 10 children; they settled in the bush at Bolwarrah, near Springbank, Gordon and Bungaree outside Ballarat. In Jun 1901 John died as the result of a coach accident when the coach they were travelling in was struck by a train on their way to Ballarat to collect their old age pension. John was severely injured and died soon after, Margaret recovered but apparently never walked again. Simpson relatives still live on Simpsons road, Bolwarrah

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