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Participant Info

First Name

Eliza

Surname

Icombe

Native Place

Baltinglass, Wicklow

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Thomas & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, can read & write, no relatives in colony. Empl. J Hunt, Balmain, £9, 3 years. Im Report 1858, Appendix J No.139, 28 Jun 1850 indentures with Mr J Hunt, Balmain, cancelled for neglect of duty, she was returned to service promising to behave better; married Thomas Francis Regin [later Webb] at Sydney 1853; the couple's next 8(?) children named Webb. Thomas & Eliza ran a hotel, grocery & butcher business, purchased blocks of land near Yendon. Eliza died 1911, buried in Ballarat New Cemetery. Two of her sisters also came to Australia, Catherine per 'Kate' 1851 & Ethelinda per 'Persia' 1856/7.

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