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GARBUTT, Mary Ellen

11 March 1905 – 30 April 1933

Origin Cork Ireland
Accompanying Family Husband and nine children
First settled in Busselton under Group Settlement Scheme
Original Occupation Mother
Occupation in Australia Home Duties/Shopkeeper

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Departure Port London
Arrival Year 1927

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Mary Ellen immigrated with husband, William and nine children and endured the harshness of the failed Group Settlement Scheme. She ran a shop in Perth to earn extra income but died suddenly aged 38. A tenth child, Allan Peter Garbutt was born in 1930

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