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Participant Info

First Name

Mary Jane (Jane)

Surname

Gray [Grey]

Native Place

Armagh

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Henry & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, read & write, no relatives in colony. Armagh PLU BG/2/G/1 (2696): first entered Armagh workhouse 18 Jul 1842 aged 10, hardship, deserted by mother; allowed to leave for 2 days 5 Dec 1844 for mother's death; went into service for 3 years, back to workhouse rather then go to country; to Belfast PLU 24 May 1848 then to Australia; empl Mr RJ Smith, Moreton Bay, £9, 2 years; Register 2 Jul 1849 Moreton Bay, beginning of negotiations for her marriage to Henry Skinner, ticket of leave holder but married Alexander Dunn, in Brisbane 1850, husband a stockman, drover & fruitier; 6 children; died 1885; buried Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane

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