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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

McGowan

Native Place

Killrock [Kiltoghert], Leitrim

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Daniel & Winney (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Inchinnan (Sydney 13 Feb 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Im. Cor. 49/110, gone to Maitland; in Sep 1849 her indentures were cancelled with Henry Hopkins for insolence, frequent disobedience & absconding and she was returned to the Depot; in Dec 1850 she sued Robert Halfpenny for maintenance for a child by him; in Dec 1856 she was in the Sydney Benevolent Asylum where a daughter, Eliza Winnifred McGowan was born (no father indicated); married Thomas Harvey, 1859, at Presbyterian, Elizabeth Street, Sydney-both from Bathurst; 4 children; in Gulgong by 1874 were Thomas was gold mining. is probably Mary McGowan, dau of Daniel & Elen MacWeeney bap RC parish Kiltoghert, Leitrim on 6 Oct 1832; Jane McGowan also on the Inchinnan from Leitrim but no relationship has been established.

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