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Participant Info

First Name

Bessy

Surname

O'Loughlin (O'Laughlin)

Native Place

Sligo

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes; empl. Richard Grimes, Cnr King & Bourke Sts, Melbourne £6, 2 years apprentice. Sligo on shipping, query that her native place is Galway; married Thomas Payne in 1852 as Margaret; also known as Elizabeth; 11 children; lived in small weatherboard cottage in Clunes, Victoria; died Clunes 1903, five years after her husband.

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