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Participant Info

First Name

Biddy (Bridget)

Surname

Gollagher (Gallagher)

Native Place

Galway [shipping]-Donegal

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

Shipping: laundress, cannot read or write. Sister, Ellen, also on 'Lady Kennaway'; parents Francis & Ellen Gallagher; employed by Edward Curr, St Hilliers [Heliers], £14, 6 months; research indicates she is from Donegal; married William McKenna in 1850; Bridget died in the Immigrants’ Home in South Melbourne in 1882, aged 57; her husband died 1910

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