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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Ryan

Native Place

Roscrea, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads. to Portland per Raven 16 Jun 1849; Empl. E Henty, Portland, £15, 12 months; married David M Murray, Muntham, c.1852, an employee on Edward Henty's selection ‘Muntham's Run’; was farm labourer at Hamilton; 12 children, 10 of whom married and had 63 children. Margaret obtained several grants of land on the banks of the Glenelg River near Telangatuk East, totalling 679 acres which she willed to her youngest son; her husband, David died in 1896; Margaret died 21 Mar 1905; buried Balmoral.

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