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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Flynn

Native Place

Clonmel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

Clonmel PLU Minutes BG67/A/9, 14 Apr 1849, p.257, No. 11 Bridget Flynn, 18, had small pox; Clonmel PLU 14 Apr 1849, BG67/A/9 p.257 list of 28 orphan girls about to leave the workhouse, includes Bridget Flynn, aged 18, left workhouse on 18 Apr 1849; Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; aka Bridget Maria. Empl. Henry Frawley, Great Bourke St., £8, 6 months; married (John) Joseph Whitford, Dec 1851 at Alberton; husband an ex-convict, labourer and policeman; c. 9 children. Bridget died in 1916 after 28 years of widowhood; buried Greenmount.

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