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Participant Info

First Name

Maria

Surname

Blundell

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Robert & Ann (mother in Dublin)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, read & write, no relatives in colony; probably born Naas, Co Kildare; North Dublin Workhouse NAI BG/78/G/4 No.14737 10 years, delicate after fever, native of Dublin, returned from fever hospital. North City, entered 11 Feb 1846 left 20 Oct 1849; Im.Cor. 50/344 Moreton Bay per Tamar with 49 other orphans; empl. as house servant by George Edmonstone, North Brisbane, £6-8, 3 years; married Thomas Freney 1855, Brisbane; 12 children, lived Coopers Plains; died 1917. Her mother, brother James & sister Susan emigrated in 1862 & c.1865.

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