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Participant Info

First Name

Maria

Surname

Gowdy

Native Place

Armagh Town

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Sarah

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads; Armagh PLU PRONI BG2/G/1 (7032) BG2/G/2 (239) (1383) Tynan, Killyleagh, Union at large, deserted, thinly clothed. Her mother Sarah 36 yo widow died in the workhouse 7 May 1847; younger sister Anne & older brother Thomas also in workhouse. Empl. Henry Taylor, King St., £6, 1 year, apprentice; married John Hawksworth in 1854; 8 children registered, lived Timor area; died Maryborough Hospital, Victoria 3 Oct 1877.

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