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Participant Info

First Name

Sarah

Surname

Head

Native Place

Limerick

Age On Arrival

14 or 12

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads; empl. aged 12 by Richard Clark, printer, 'Gazette' office, Melbourne, £5, 2 years. 'The Argus', 13 Nov 1849, 'Shameful treatment of an Orphan girl' - reproduced in 'Barefoot & Pregnant?', vol. 2, p.45 - took her mistress to court, claimed her wages and indentures were rightly cancelled.

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