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Participant Info

First Name

Alice

Surname

Freese (Freeze, Furze)

Native Place

Cashel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

William & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relations in the colony; father was William, a copper, mother: Margaret Purtell; 2 children before married Laurence Ward, at Scots Church, Sydney 1858; 3 children; Laurence was a bushman from Gayndah, children George & Julia born Ipswich; he died Burrandowan Station in the South Burnett District in 1867; Alice died 1906 in Toowoomba of senile dementia, looked after by her daughter, Julia Pobar.

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