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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

McConnell

Native Place

Co Tyrone [on shipping]

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

James & Fanny (both dead)

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relations in colony, went to Maitland; daughter of James Magee & Fanny McConnell, worked in flax mills, Laggan Village, Belfast; alleged Belfast prostitute; to Maitland; empl. Mr J Wilson, East Maitland, £13, 3 months, within a year of arriving in Maitland, Mary began a relationship with William Ashton (per Theresa 1839) which lasted for life; 11 children; Mary died after falling down stairs in Newcastle in 1892, buried beside William in Sandgate Cemetery.

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