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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Gleeson

Native Place

Rosscrea? [Roscrea], Tipperary

Age On Arrival

15/16

Parents

Thomas & Margaret nee Kennedy [descendant]

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes; empl by Thomas Hunt, Londsale St, Melbourne £5-6, 2 years but was 'returned to depot'; went to South Australia (details unknown) where married Oxfordshire-born James Burrows at CofE Gawler 12 Jan 1852; He had arrived free to Port Phillip per Maitland 1849; 11 children all born Victoria, only 4 survived to adulthood; lived Ballarat, Moorabbin-Brighton & Avoca area of the Wimmera district. James died 27 Feb 1902 at No.2 Creek; Bridget Annie Burrows died 9 Jun 1908 at the home of her daughter, Lydia, at Flemington; both buried at Avoca.rn

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