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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Lenahan

Native Place

Killane [Killeen], Meath

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

George & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; empl. W King, Goulburn, £8, 1 year. Register 2 No.880 Goulburn reporting marriage of Mary Lenahan and Mary Leery. She married widower, John Passmore 17 Jun 1849 at Goulburn; 10 children located; John died May 1876 buried Goulburn with his first wife, Elizabeth. Mary died 25 Jun 1907 at Leichhardt, buried RC Rookwood. Mary's husband sponsored her brother, George to NSW in 1856 & he arrived 6 May 1857.

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