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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Brady (Brody, Brodie)

Native Place

Clare

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write. Empl HG Holland, Ryrie St., Geelong, £10, 6 months; married ex-convict John Wall, St Mary's RC Geelong 11 Dec 1852; 5 children in 5 towns 1853-1863; husband a farmer of Batesford, witnessed by Pemberton shipmate Bridget Egan who was also apparently her relative; had meningitis after birth of last child & was mentally unstable, arrested 14 Mar 1867 charged with lunacy at Bungaree Police Station, to Ararat Lunatic Asylum, 16 years later on 12 Jan 1883, buried Ararat unmarked paupers grave 472; husband's estate valued at £640 in 1901.

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