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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget [aka Elizabeth]

Surname

Lenehy

Native Place

Drumshannock [Drumshambo], Leitrim

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Thomas & Ellen (mother living at Carrick)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Also known as Elizabeth; sister Ellen also on Tippoo Saib; Initially we thought she married(?) William Stewart, a sailor, c.1853, had a dau c.1853/4, son b.Sydney & she died 1925 in Sydney. It now seems she John Ledwidge 17 Aug 1852 at St Marys RC Sydney, witnessed by her sister, Ellen; but she died as Eliza Bridget STEWART on 4 May 1925 at Little Sisters of Poor Home, Randwick, & is buried RC Rookwood. Death cert notes born Leitrim, married at Sydney at age 18 to William STEWART; Children: Caroline 79 & John 75 years, none dead; Informant was secretary, Little Sisters of the Poor Home, Randwick [death cert No 1925/6118].

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