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Participant Info

First Name

Eliza (Elizabeth)

Surname

Butler

Native Place

Rosscrea, Limerick [as on shipping]

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes.Empl. Mr R Crossen, butcher, Bourke St., £12, 6 months; parents were Jonathon Robert Butler & Esther Morris; married 1) William Jones, a miner in 1850, 3 children, he seems to have abandoned them c.1858; in 1860 Elizabeth had the first of 5 children with Dr John Weems Richmond, mine manager at Clunes, Victoria, who she married in 1874, a year before his death, 5 children with him; married 3) William Maddison in 1877; died 1882.

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