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Participant Info

First Name

Sarah Jane

Surname

Sharkey

Native Place

Strabane, Tyrone

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Derwent (Melbourne Feb 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; from Donacavey parish, Strabene in Omagh PLU; empl George Ward Cole, Brighton, Victoria, £11, 3 months; married Edward O'Brien at St Francis RC Melbourne 14 Jan 1852; 9 children named on death certificate; she died 15 Aug 1913 at St Kilda, Melbourne; note she was not the girl who married John Martin in Tasmania as previously thought.

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