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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Fitzgibbon

Native Place

Kanturk, Cork

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

William & Judith (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; her sister Elizabeth also on Maria. Immigration Correspondence 50/700, 2 Sep 1850 to Moreton Bay with per Eagle with group of 15 orphans including her sister Elizabeth; married Jacob Lord 1851 at Ipswich, Qld where he purchased land that year; 8 children b.1856-67; in Oct 1868 in Drayton, Catherine charged her husband with assault - case dismissed; Jacob died 1873 in Drayton where Catherine remained until her death in 1907. See Ray Debnam's Feisty Girls for details of these two Fitzgibbon girls.

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