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Participant Info

First Name

Peggy

Surname

Connor (Connors, Cummins)

Native Place

Tipperary

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

Shipping: as Connor house servant, reads & writes. Empl. H Gardiner, Russell St., Melbourne, £10, 3 months; No Cummins on shipping of Pemberton bus is on the disposal list & not in service; almost certain Peggy (Margaret) Connors & Cummins is same girl; to Portland 16 Jun 1849 with 38 others but apparently returned on request of Patrick Ryan whose sister-in-law was a relative of 'Peggy Cummins'; at his residence at Salt Water River near Melbourne & at her relative's home nearby, Patrick Ryan violated her several times before she reported it; married John Jones, butcher, Melbourne, 21 Jan 1850; 4 children by 1867; lived in the Footscray when convicted of robbery in 1860s-to gaol 12 months on Jan 1872 for vagrancy at Footscray; then committed to Yarra Bend Insane Asylum on 19 Feb 1872.

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