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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

McGuinness (Maginness)

Native Place

Killoe [Kiloe parish], Longford

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Edward & Eliza (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

on list of 50 girls from Longford PLU minutes Dec 1848 as Mary Maginness aged 15; shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony. Im.Cor. 49/281, 8 Jun 1849 p.97 one of 20 orphans to Parramatta; Im Cor 49/721, 29 Oct 1849, indentures for 25 orphans at Bathurst, includes Mary Macginness; Im Cor 49/753, 15 Nov 1849 re indentures to Bathurst; probably married James Reeves 1850 in Bathurst.

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