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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Conlon

Native Place

Creaves [Creeve], Roscommon

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

James & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

Shipping: housemaid, reads, relations in the colony, a sister Margaret Conlon, lately arrived [per Digby]; to depot Moreton Bay. Im.Cor. 49/749 13 Nov 1849 forwarded under warrrant to Sydney from Brisbane 15 Nov 1849 [reproduced in Barefoot...vol 2 p.116;, orphan wages forwarded to Sydney by Moreton Bay Bench, paid to Matron of Darlinghurst Gaol; orphan wages, 27 Nov 1849 empl by George Griffin, Pine River, Moreton Bay; married Scottish Presbyterian police William Clunes at Moreton Bay 1850. Wm died in 1879; Mary granted land from his estate which she sold this to James Butler; then seems 'to have disappeared from the face of the earth'.

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