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Participant Info

First Name

Martha

Surname

Dunn

Native Place

Ballaycoot [Ballycoot] , Wicklow

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

James & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: farm servant, reads, no relatives in colony; empl. J.J. Martyn, Goulburn, £8, 1 year; married 1) John Simpson at RC Collector by Goulburn RC priest 17 Feb 1855; possibly 5 children; John was postmaster in Collector and died there in 1864; Martha married 2) Michael Donohue in 1864 in Goulburn; 3 or 4 children; Martha died 18 Oct 1869 at Collector where she was buried; Michael Donohue remarried to Ellen O'Brien in 1870 at Collector had had another large family.

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