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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Murphy

Native Place

Enniscorthy, Wexford

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Robert & Mary [from descendant in 1990s]

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; empl. James Barry, Flinders Lane, ₤8, 6 months; reassigned J Campbell, Goulburn River, ₤12, 6 months; married James Walker at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1852; 7 children; lived Geelong, Ballarat & Linton; died at Linton 1865 of puerperal peritonitis [childbirth]; buried Linton, no headstone.

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