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Participant Info

First Name

Biddy

Surname

Kildea (Gildae, Gilday)

Native Place

Donegal, Glenally? [Gleneely]

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write; empl. Elizabeth Dene, Swanston St., Melbourne, £10, 6 months; married Englishman Nathan Page, St Pauls, Melbourne 1 Oct 1853; 9 children; best man at wedding was Richard Morgan who had married Margaret Kildea in 1851 (also per Lady Kennaway, perhaps Bridget's sister); Page was a limeburner on the Peninsula & had a kiln at Rye; the family lived various places from Point Nepean to Dromana when most houses were bark huts; Nathan died 1899; Bridget lived with her daughter in West Melbourne & died in 1917.

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