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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Fitzgerald

Native Place

Queens [Laios] County

Age On Arrival

14/18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes; Empl. William Disher, Little Collins St., Melbourne £10, 12 months; married 1) St Francis RC Melbourne on 15 Feb 1850 to Jeremiah Henry Marsden, a convict transported to Van Diemen’s Land; 9 children; Jeremiah died 1866, the five youngest children were taken into care because of neglect; married 2) James Webster on 13 Aug 1871; a daughter b.1872; James Webster died May 1873; another daughter, Jane b.1875 who died 1876; Margaret spent her last 15 years in the Beechworth Asylum where she seems to be the woman who died there as Margaret Smith on 1 Aug 1894??

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