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Participant Info

First Name

Arabella

Surname

Mills

Native Place

Gashel [Geashill], Queens [Laois]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Robert & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Gashel on shipping is almost certainly Geashill in Kings [Offaly] County; shipping: nursemaid, reads, no relatives in colony; in Sydney in Jul 1856 she married George Louis Asher Davies (Jewish journalist, son of convict, Michael John Davies per Florentia 1830); 6 children; she died 2 Sep 1866 at Pyrmont from consumption, aged 29, buried Camperdown with her 6 month-old daughter Lucretia Arabella; George died in Nov 1903 at his residence Bay St., Rockdale, aged 69.

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