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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Herr [Hear, Eare, Hayes]

Native Place

Colack [Cloghatacka], Limerick

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

James & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; is probably Colacockary, parish of Ardagh; married Nathaniel J Wall, St Marys, Sydney 1851; 8 children; lived Sydney except for brief time on Sofala goldfields; in 1860 Mary opened 'The International Dining Rooms' catering mainly for seamen; she selected 60 acres at Berowa where she remained until her death in 1910.

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