Bridget Mary Burgess

http://www.dustydocs.com/link/207/45383/234026/passenger-lists-to-a...
'Eveline'
Sailed Cape of Good Hope 1864 - arrived Auckland January 22nd 1865
Ship's manifest has Bridget's age at 24, which in 1865 gives a possible birth date of 1841.
It's more likely the birth date is 1844 given that she was 73 when she died in 1917.
(although that makes her 15 upon arrival at Table Bay, Cape Town, in July 1859)

Bridget married Eugene Sweeney in Cape Town, South Africa 8 September 1863. They were passengers on the immigrant ship Eveline (814 tons Captain James Taylor)
which departed Cape Town on 2 December 1864 and arrived in Auckland on 22 January 1865.
Upon arrival, residing at Cape Settlement, Pukekohe.
Eugene Sweeney was accidently killed in June 1873 when earth fell on him at his workplace.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18650131.2.18?items_...
New Zealander 31 January 1865
Arrivals during the month
Eveline, ship 814 tons, Taylor, from the Cape of Good Hope, 2nd Dec.

BDM1874/6085 Bridget Sweeny; Thomas Burgess

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18860804.2.33?items...
New Zealand Herald, 4 August 1886
Mr. Tole presented a petition to-day from Bridget Burgess praying the House to grant her land owned by her husband, who was killed while working in the railway works at Pukekohe in 1873, and left no will, and so far as she is aware has no family. She complains that she has never been able to get the land, and wishes it made over to her.

Bridget made numerous petitions to the government requesting a Crown Grant be made transferring title of her first husband's land to be made over to her. Papers Past records petition dates in 1881, 1886 and 1889.

See source documents: Crown Grant to Eugene Sweeney, instrument date 15 Nov 1872.

PUKEKOHE & WAIUKU TIMES, VOLUME 6, ISSUE 273, 8 MAY 1917
OBITUARY - In the death of Mrs Thomas Burgess, which occurred in Auckland on Friday last, Otahuhu loses one of its early pioneers. The deceased lady arrived in Auckland some fifty years ago and after living for a time in the Cape Settlement at Pukekohe removed with her family to Otahuhu where she has been a resident for over 30 years. She is survived by her husband and two sons.

Otahuhu Catholic Records / ancestry.com.au: Pray for the soul of Thomas & Bridget BURGESS and for the soul of their son William, killed in France, RIP. (image in media) Inscription on headstone.

https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?...
File 8 of the Will of Bridget Burgess states she was born in Kings County in Ireland.
File 5 gives reason for probate delay: Thomas Burgess, being uneducated, did not realise probate protocol.

Death registration number 1917/1830 BURGESS Bridget 73 years

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~shipstonz/genealogy/waikatoimmi.html
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?...

Immigrant ships from South Africa: (Waikato Immigration Scheme)
ALFRED Cape of Good Hope September 1864, arrived 18 November 1864
EVELINE 1864, arrived 22 January 1865
MAORI Cape of Good Hope 1864, arrived 23 December 1864
REIHERSTEIG (REHERSTEIG) Cape of Good Hope, October 1864, arrived 24 December 1864
STEINWAERDER Cape of Good Hope, October 1864, arrived 18 October 1864

Primary settlement localities linking immigrants from the ships EVELINE and MAORI (South Africa) are:
Patumahoe, Pokeno, Pukekohe and Tuakau. Other ships linked to settlement of these areas but which departed from other ports are BOMBAY, DAUNTLESS, GANGES, HELENSLEE, LANCASHIRE WITCH and RESOLUTE.

http://www.eggsa.org/cgi-bin/dosearchArrivals.pl
KENNEDY, Bridget
Sex: F
Age: 20
Marital status: Single
Occupation: House Servant
Surety details: Mr. Davidson
Port of arrival: Table Bay
Extra info: Employer: Mr. Davidson at Cape Town, Wage: £1/5/- p.m.
Arrived 26 July 1859 aboard the Burlington.
sailed from Southampton on 30 May 1859
Ship Notes: Nominal List of Emigrants on board the ship 'Burlington' despatched from Southampton for Table Bay on the 30th May 1859.
Signed W.Field, 3 Bridges Street, Westminster, 6th June 1859.
disembarked 27th July 1859 (this info from IB7 Rations listing for the Burlington)
Source: Cape Archives IBC 7 and IBC 9

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2T-LSS4-4?i=177&...
Bridget Kennedy, age 20, house servant to Mrs Davidson, Cape Town, from Kings County, Ireland.

Evening Mail - Wednesday 01 June 1859. Government Emigration - The Government emigrant vessel BURLINGTON, 676 tons, Captain Victor Howes, sailed from Southampton on Monday, the 30th ult., for Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, with 267 emigrants under charge of Surgeon-Superintendant Samuel Leonard Crarie, M.D. The emigrants who embarked in this vessel were selected by the Hon. William Field, the officer appointed by the Colonial Government to conduct the emigration to the Cape of Good Hope. (Courtesy British Newspaper Archive online)

Death certificate: No details of parents' names, how long in New Zealand, or marital status - all marked 'Not Known'. Cause of Death - senile decay also mentioned.