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Participant Info

First Name

Maria

Surname

Maher

Native Place

Portumna, Galway

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

James & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony. Empl as house servant by Mr E Porter, George St., Sydney, £6-8, 3 years. Im.Cor. Apr 1852 Hyde Park Barracks; married William Kennedy 1855 at Scots Church, Sydney (he was younger son of Thomas Kennedy, Superintendent of Works for Alexander Berry); 12 children; lived Shoalhaven, later Branxton & Toronto; became the first teacher at the Bomaderry Public School; died 1921; buried Nowra.

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