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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Hopkins

Native Place

Kilcudden [Corcullen], Galway [Glen, Dunmore]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Thomas & Biddy (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; born 1835 Dunmore; 1858-9 Report, Appendix J No.109. 12 Apr 1850 indentures with John Connor cancelled for absconding from service, to be sent up the country & kept separate from the other girls whilst in Sydney; married 1) William Carroll at Bathurst in 1850, 5 children; married 2) Charles Adolphus Bell in 1862, 3 girls; Bridget died at Bourke 1915

Story

Bridget Hopkins