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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Hurley

Native Place

Gort, Galway

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Thomas & Mary (mother living at Gort)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, relative in colony: uncle, Thomas Welsh; to Yass Depot; empl as house servant by WH Broughton at 'Broughtonsworth', Burrowa, £7-8, 2 years; married at RC Yass on 7 Feb 1852 to Joseph Patterson [came free with brother in 1838 from Edenderry, also worked at Broughtonsworth]; 7 children - two sons returned to Ireland, one took over the Patterson Funeral business in Edenderry; Margaret died near Parkes on 5 Sep 1922, aged about 90.

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