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Participant Info

First Name

Sarah

Surname

Emmett

Native Place

Tullamore, Kings [Offaly]

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

William & Martha (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

Shipping: houseservant, reads only, no relatived in colony; married Samuel Bridgement (occasionally Bridgeman) 1853 at Wesleyan chapel, Sydney; reared 6 of 10 children in Millers Point, Sydney where her husband had a goat dairy and later became a publican. She died 5 years after her husband at their residence Forveaux St, Surry Hills; both buried at Rookwood with their predeceased children. She told family she was 'next of kin' to Robert Emmett, the Irish Nationalist and rebel!

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