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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Dempsey

Native Place

Clonmel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

Clonmel PLU 14 Apr 1849, BG67/A/9 p.257 list of 28 orphan girls about to leave the workhouse, includes Margaret Dempsey, aged 19, left workhouse on 18 Apr 1849; shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; per 'Raven' to Portland. Empl. R Urquhart, Port Fairy, £10, 12 months; married Thomas (Mc)Taggart, Yangery, 10 Mar 1850; 12 children (one of whom tragically committed suicide as an unwed pregnant girl); husband a labourer and carpenter, lived Keilor and Epping, died 30 Sep 1891.

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