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Participant Info

First Name

Bridget

Surname

McGrath

Native Place

Tulloch [Tullow], Carlow

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

William & Mary (mother living in Tullow)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lismoyne (Sydney 29 Nov 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, relation in colony: sister Margaret McGrath per ship Lady Peel. Empl. G Wright, Surry Hills, Sydney, £8, 12 months; married 1852 to widower Daniel Robinson (he had 2 children aged 8 & 4); Daniel was a publican at The Fitzroy Hotel, Wooloomooloo; 9 children born 1853-69; Daniel spent about 8 years in Callan Park before his death May 1884 while Bridget, later with her son Daniel, carried on the business; insolvent & bankrupt in 1884; Bridget died 1890, buried Waverley with unmarried daughter, Alice, buried in 1938 – no headstone.

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