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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Plunkett

Native Place

Galway

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Oliver & Winny (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, sister, Catherine Plunkett in colony [arrived per Inchinnan, also as workhouse orphan girl]; empl as house servant by Harris, Parramatta, ₤8, 1 yearr; married George Skippen 1859, Rocky River, New England; 5 children; Bridget died 1908; George died 1859, both buried in Copeton Cemetery, now covered by the waters of Copeton Dam.

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