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Participant Info

First Name

Elizabeth

Surname

Hickey

Native Place

Carlow

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

William & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony;Empl. by Mr W Barker, (Tamrookum Station) Logan River, £9, 3 years; Im. Cor. 49/725 Moreton Bay; married John Frederick Booth in 1851 at Moreton Bay; about 1854 the couple moved to Melbourne with their two children, Joseph and Mary & had 3 more children: William, Catherine & Reuben. Elizabeth died 1869, heart disease; husband died 1883, aged 66. Both buried in Melbourne General Cemetery.

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