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Thursday, 29 October 2009
Matilda JESSUP, 1870s
Qld State Archives item ID 846997 (previous system location: COL/A267; 1878/4335) has documents about Matilda JESSUP (passage to England for her and 5 children on 'Windsor Castle'; arrived with husband on the 'Scottish Hero' 1876; he died from typhoid which she also had; mother-in-law died from burns suffered when she fell in a fire).