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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

MacCartey (McCarthy, McCartey)

Native Place

Mallow, Cork

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads; empl. as a parlour-maid to Edward Higgins of Merri Creek £12, 6 months; married Robert Pangbourne at St Peter's CofE, Melbourne, 3 Mar 1850 with Robert Pohlman's (member of Melbourne Orphan Committee) permission; lived behind a shop, corner of Swanston & Bourke Sts, Melbourne; were successful on the goldfields, built a two storey house in High St, Carlton; speculated in land in Brunswick & Phillipstown. Bridget died 12 May 1874 leaving Robert and 10 children, is buried in the Pangbourne family grave at Melbourne General Cemetery.

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