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Participant Info

First Name

Jane

Surname

Beard (Baird)

Native Place

Edgeworth Town, Longford

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Thomas & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes; no relatives in colony; on list of 50 girls from Longford PLU minutes Dec 1848 as no 41 Jane Baird, aged 17;rnthose from Edgeworthstown should be in Granard workhouse so why are they on the list from Longford? 1858-9 Report on Irish Female Immigrants, Appendix J No.92, 15 Feb 1850 charged with improper conduct by employer George Chisholm Esq., dismissed, no appearance. Register 2 No.286 re account with George Chisholm.

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