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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Higgins

Native Place

Rossmeath [Rosmead], Westmeath

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

Patick & Jane (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in the colony. Native place Rossmeath, County Westmeath as on shipping. Note that Rosmead & Cavestown townland was in the new PLU of Castletowndevlin, the last ever created, formed from Mullingar, Oldcastle and Kells. Castletowndevlin was in Mullingar so she most likely in Mullingar Workhouse

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