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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Nocton

Native Place

Ferbane, Kings [Offaly]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Patrick & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, reads only, no relatives in colony;Register 2 No.1463 office minute 1 Nov 1850 - Margaret in service of Charles Rhodius [Rodius]; Register 3 No.53 H. Rodius requested she be allowed to remain in her service until her husband's return from Port Phillip [no date] - Rodius' second wife, Harriet, had died in 1838 but he did to Port Philip 1851-54 so this may have been a third wife or a de facto; Margaret married 1) married Patrick Smith 1854; married 2) Thomas Swift 15 Mar 1861 in Wingham Court House; died Dec 1914 at Macksville

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