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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Crowley

Native Place

Carran [Gowran], Kilkenny

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Denis & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; married Dan Withers 1852 at Bullinah [now part of Ballina]; settled in the ‘big scrub’ cedar area of the Clarence and Richmond River hinterland; c.14 children; her husband a well-known bushman & she was also competent in the bush, apparently driving bullock teams as well; family indicate she had a lifelong friendship with Mary Sheehy also per Maria and their children married each other; Catherine died 1902, buried Bex Hill inland from Ballina near Lismore, NSW.

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