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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

Kelly

Native Place

Mullneivatt (?), Waterford

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

William & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Empl. WH Rae, Morpeth, £8, 1 year. Im. Cor. 50/37 Maitland. Register 2 No.1558, 28 Nov 1850 re her marriage Maitland; No.1607 Principal Superintendent Convicts application to marry her from Michael Trahey; No.1659, 19 Dec 1850 reporting her marriage to Michael Trahey, husband a labourer later a miner, lived Morpeth and Wallsend, 9 children; he died 1897, estate valued at £110; Bridget died 8 Jan 1901; buried Wallsend.

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