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Participant Info

First Name

Mary (Mary Ann)

Surname

Patterson

Native Place

Killeshandra, Cavan

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

George & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; a cousin Frances Paterson also on Digby; Mary (Mary Ann) married John Lewis Willis 8 Aug 1849 at Brownsville (Dapto); 7 children; lived Shell Harbour, then Bega; husband died of cancer 1874 & his sister, Anne Leonora & her husband William Barrett & 2 children arrived per Sarah 12 Dec 1849; married 2) Robert Shackles in 1878; died Bega 1892.

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