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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Smith [Smyth]

Native Place

Kilskeath [Kilskyre/Kilskeer], Meath

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Brian & Bridget (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony but sister of Bridget & Jane also on John Knox. 1858-9 Report, Appendix J No.207, 31 Jan 1851 charges her mistress, Ann Janson, with assault, guilty, fined 20/-, indentures cancelled, WPO; married John Owen 1853, St James CofE, Sydney; 8 children, she died 1897 Camperdown, Sydney. Husband (son of convict) arrived free aged 8 per 'Thames' 1826 with 2 brothers & a sister to join his father, John Owen per 'Asia'-mother died on the voyage [see Perry McIntyre, 'Free Passage', IAP, 2010].

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