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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Brown

Native Place

Mayo

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write. Empl. James Barry, Elizabeth St., Melbourne, £6 2 years; reported in 'Ballina Chronicle', 28 Nov 1849 working for Mr Bury, so likely from Ballina workhouse. This confirmed by baptism found by Jan Gallagher: Bridget bap Kilmoremoy on 24 Jan 1831, parents Thomas Brown & Eliza Jennings, living in Cloontakilla townland on the southern edge of Carrowmore Lake. Seems to be sister of Mary, 16, on the Pamama to Sydney

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