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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

McGarry

Native Place

Croghan, Roscommon

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Patrick & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid cannot read or write, no relatives in colony, sister Catherine also on Digby; another sister Mary on Tippoo Saib; empl. A Rankin, St Clair, Singleton, £10, 1 year as was her sister Catherine; Sep 1850 married Phillip Kelly of Patrick's Plains, a labourer & sawyer, 2 sons born at Whittingham near Singleton. Bridget died 1856 Singleton; Phillip remarried in 1861 to Cecelia Sweeney & had 8 children; Philip died 1902, Cecelia died 1906, both buried St Patrick's RC Singleton.

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