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Participant Info

First Name

Anne

Surname

Bracken

Native Place

Longford

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Richard & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

on list of 50 girls from Longford PLU minutes Dec 1848 as Anne Bracken aged 17; shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; married ex-convict, Thomas Fogarty, at Ipswich 1849; they soon moved to Sydney & then to Wattle Flat, near Sofala; husband died 1876; Anne died in Sydney 1894.

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