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Participant Info

First Name

Maria

Surname

Ward

Native Place

Loughmartin [Knockmartin], Longford

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

James & Anne (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

on list of 50 girls from Longford PLU minutes Dec 1848 as no 31 Maria Ward aged 17; shipping: nursemaid, reads only, no relatives in colony. Register No,982, 29 Oct 1849 Parramatta; Im. Cor. 50/357, 2 May 1850 to Eden; Register 3 No.114 JE Tucker requests permission for marriage of Maria Ward to James Leonard 28 Jan 1851-they married at St Mary's RC Sydney the next day with her noted from Pambula & James from Maneroo. At least two children born: Sarah A in 1851 at Maneroo & James E at Bombala in 1858.

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