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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Hartigan

Native Place

Newmarket, Clare

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Patrick & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

Born at Ennis, Ennistymon, 18 Oct 1834, dau of Patrick Hartigan, slater, & Mary Glynn; shipping: house servant, read & write, no relatives in colony; Empl as house servant by RM Redmayne, Black Range, near Yass, £6-8, 3 years; Register 2 No.1424, 24 Oct 1850 complaint re treatment by her employer, Yass; married 1) Thomas Downey in Kilmore 8 Feb 1853; 2 children marriage 2) William Hine at Castlemaine 21 Sep 1857, 8 children, husband a miner at Vaughan, later a newspaper proprietor; she died 1914 after 19 years a widow; buried Rupanyup

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