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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Bierton (Brierton, Burton)

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: housemaid, read & write. Empl. Mary Lawton, Murphy's Brewery, Melbourne, £8, 6 months; from the 'Royal Hibernian Military School'. See Art W. Cockerill's website http://www.achart.ca/hibernian.htm. For an example of an apprentice's indenture see 'Barefoot & Pregnant?' vol.2, p.32.

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