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Participant Info

First Name

Mary [Mary Ann]

Surname

Desmond

Native Place

Dunmanway, Cork

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Francis & Margaret O'Brien [Death cert]

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads only. Sister, Ellen, same ship; empl. Daniel Wright, Napier St., Collingwood, ₤8, 3 mths; married in St Mary's Church, Geelong on 1852 to John Kelly (b.c.1818 Bristol, England); her brother John emigrated in 1854; 8 children; lived Ballareen, Creswick, Kingston, Springhill & Bloomfield, Vic. John died 1894; Mary died 1900.

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