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Participant Info

First Name

Ellen

Surname

Nugent

Native Place

Clonmel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; Clonmel PLU 14 Apr 1849, BG67/A/9 p.257 list of 28 orphan girls about to leave the workhouse, includes Ellen Nugent, aged 17, left workhouse on 18 Apr 1849; per 'Raven' to Portland; empl. J Smith, Portland, £8, 6 months; married William King in 1851 at Portland; 11 children; first children born at Digby (Emu Creek), others at Hotspur, SW Victoria; William died in Aug 1870 from injuries following fall from horse; Ellen died at Hotspur 1920.

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