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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Sweeney

Native Place

Ballyshannon, Leitrim

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Edward & Ann (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Inchinnan (Sydney 13 Feb 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Ballyshannon Union [which covered parts of County Leitrim and Donegal, thus the entry Leitrim, Ballyshannon which suggests Margaret was from Leitrim borderlands]. Im Cor 49/110 Maitland; married Daniel Dogherty at St Josephs RC East Maitland 1850.

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