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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Taylor

Native Place

Not recorded

Age On Arrival

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Not recorded

Ship Name

Roman Emperor (Adelaide 1848)

Details

named in Surgeon's report in SA Archives [CSO 1848/1647] as Margaret Taylor; GRG 28/4 cases of destitution: No.1147, 6 July 1854 Mary McFee, 24 years old, Weymouth Street, 2 under 7, 6 years, Rev Haledon, husband killed in Adelaide Steam Mill; he had died 8 May 1854 after falling into the machinery; she had married William Craig McFee on 5 Sep 1853 from 1855 until her death, Margaret McFie conducted a life of crime, running a ‘disorderly’ house of ‘ill-fame’ in Light Square, frequently appearing in the papers, charged with being a prostitute, assaulting others, being drunk, stealing alone or with other ‘females of bad character’, damaging property, riotous behaviour and abusive language, for which she was variously fined or sent to gaol; on 16 Aug 1874, aged 45, she married Watson Cook(e), aged 21 but continued her life of crime aided and abetted by her husband and her children; Margaret died on 9 Jul 1892 at Port Pirie.

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