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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Dougherty [Dogherty]

Native Place

Londonderry[Derry], Drum

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Not recorded

Ship Name

Roman Emperor (Adelaide 1848)

Details

With her sister Eliza Jane, from Drum, near Dungiven, they left from the Newtownlimavady workhouse; Margaret Dogherty (20) married William Matheson (22) on 29 Jul 1851 at Holy Trinity, Adelaide; 4 children, first in Adelaide and 3 in Victoria; in Oct 1865, William Matheson of Daylesford, a miner, filed for bankruptcy in Melbourne & in Apr 1869 was charged and fined for being drunk; Margaret died in Adelaide on 19 Mar 1919, a widow, aged 88.

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