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Participant Info

First Name

Winifred

Surname

Nalis (Nealis)

Native Place

Mayo

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write; empl. Major Firebrace Melford, Melbourne £11, 12 months; probably from Crossmolina, married 1852 Samuel Pickersgill alias Robert Gipson; 9 children; family stories say Winifred ran a canvas tent 'guesthouse' on the banks of the Yarra in 1852 in the early days of the goldrush; family lived Melbourne, Leeds, England, French Island, Churchill Island & San Remo, Western Port. Winifred's hard work & comfort was undermined and their land lost by her husband's drinking and gambling; she died 1891

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