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Participant Info

First Name

Maria

Surname

Thornton

Native Place

Ballyconnell, Cavan

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Frank & Elizabeth (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony. Register 2 No.1634, 17 Dec 1850 JN Beit of Sydney declines to engage her; probably married William Tane 26 Aug 1852 at Scots Church, Pitt St, Sydney (she Presbyterian, he doesn't declare his religion).

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