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Participant Info

First Name

Susan

Surname

Thomas

Native Place

Banbridge, Down

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads; empl. Michael Lynch, storekeeper, Flinders Lane, Melbourne £5, 2 years; married James Merryleas [spelling variations] at St Francis' RC Melbourne 2 Apr 1853; 8 children; moved to goldfields at Scarsdale, south-west of Ballarat where James died on 3 Nov 1866 from mining accident; Susan in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1890s with son Alexander and both were in Western Australia by 1910 where he was a grocer in Kalgoorlie; Susan died Kalgoorlie Dec 1914, buried at Bolder WA.rn

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