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Hello every one.I have joined your group as I have made a discovery about Margaret.

She emigrated to Australia in 1841.The ship's record says she was from Kilkenny.Last week I was going over my research (lockdown under COVID19 in Melbourne) and found something on her death record I hadn't seen before.

It says  she was born in Killarney.

Now perhaps the family made a mistake and got Killarney and Kilkenny mixed up.But Margaret's  house in Melbourne was named Kilburn and that is the name of a townland in County Kerry - it's near Milltown,which is not far from Killarney.

The record also says her father was Thomas Reid and that he was a Bootmaker.Mother unknown.

I have not been able to find Margaret's baptism on Ancestry and FMP.

Can some-one help out?Cheers

jcoghlan@bigpond.com

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