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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Driscoll

Native Place

Skibbereen, Cork

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: house servant, read & write; readmitted [to Depot] 18 May on account of illness. Finally assigned to Margaret Brown, 'Steam Packet Hotel', Yarra St., Geelong, ₤10, 6 months; returned, reassigned James Black, Barabook Hills; possibly the sister of Mary Driscoll also on Eliza Caroline; married Thomas McGrathon 1851 at Geelong; 12 children (one of whom married her cousin, the son of Mary Driscoll & Thomas Glover); Bridget died in 1892, buried Albury.

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