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Participant Info

First Name

Isabella

Surname

McDougall

Native Place

Guildford, Down

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Samuel & Marion (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads only, no relatives in colony; sent to Maitland. Empl. as nursemaid by Mr J/T? Dickson, W Maitland, £6 , 6 months; married 1) Irish ex-convict Edward Spicer (Hercules 1830) in Jul 1849, West Maitland; 14 children; lived Armidale then Newstead Station, Inverell where Edward was shepherd, he died 1872 & she worked as a boarding house mistress in Inverell; married 2) Angus MacKay, a Swan Vale farmer in 1880; she died during visit to Glen Innes in 1905 aged 74. In display at Hyde Park Barracks - see attached

Story

McDougall, Isabella