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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Donovan

Native Place

Cork

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write. Empl. Mrs Dempsey, Merri Creek, ₤8, 12 months; other possible relatives also on Eliza Caroline; married James Neil at Kyneton in 1854; 10 children, some born Kyneton area and, after 1858, the family moved to a property at Kialla (Broken River) near Shepperton where they farmed 293 acres; in May 1890 James went missing and was never found [from The Argus, 27 May 1890, The Euroa Advertiser, 31 May 1895 & family Wills]; their son James (born 1870) died in an shooting accident in 1911; Margaret died at Kyneton on 3 Apr 1902, her parents named as James Donovan and Catherine Draper. Narelle Bartlett with help from Marlene Thomas, Nancy Gurney & Shelley Farr.

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