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Participant Info

First Name

Ann

Surname

Gray

Native Place

Castle Ryan [Castlerahan], Cavan

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Terrence & Mary (both dead)? see below

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony. Ann's father Terence Gray was not dead, but living in Van Diemen’s Land having been tried for horse stealing on 11 Jul 1840 & transported for 10 years, departed Dublin per 'Egyptian', 19 Aug 1840, arrived VDL 12 Dec 1840. His wife Mary apparently died and Terence Gray applied for a free passage for his sons Patrick & Michael Gray who arrived per 'Northumberland' 1854. In April 1852 Ann Gray travelled to VDL where, in Aug 1852, she married William Baxter, a former soldier in 59th Regt of Foot, convicted of desertion in Barbados in 1842 -he'd returned to London, thence transported per 'Emerald Isle' to VDL in 1843; 7 children, only three survived to adulthood. Less than a year after her 7 yr old daughter’s tragic death by burning, Ann Baxter nee Gray died on 13 Jan 1869 in Deloraine at the age of 33 years of Pericarditis.

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