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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Watson (Watt)

Native Place

Milltown, Kilkenny

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Patrick Watt & Bridget Murphy [death]

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads; per 'Raven' to Portland, empl. Henry Wade, Portland, £8, 3 months; married 1) James Gibson, Portland, 1851, 12 children; husband a carrier & farmer, lived Portand - his estate valued at £209 in 1873, he left a bush hut and land of 'very inferior quality ... very scrubby'; married 2) John McPhee in 1878; she died 1907, noted as daughter of Patrick Watt & Bridget Murphy.

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