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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Power

Native Place

Annicart [Aughmacart ED], Queens [Laois]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Patrick & Bridget (mother living in Abbeyleix)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; empl. JV Gorman, Palmer St., £7-8, 2 years; married widowed Surrey-born blacksmith William Elbra in Tamworth district 1851; he reputed to have shod bushranger Thunderbolt's horses; 14 children noted on her death cert; died 1906, Bendemeer.

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