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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

O'Brien

Native Place

Glyn, Limerick

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

James & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

shipping: with elder sister, Honora, relations in Colony: uncle, Daniel O'Brien, Melbourne (?); Register 2 No.1515 Alonzo Grocott requests to be relieved of her; married James Smith from County Tyrone in 1854; 3 children before moving to the Little River goldfield near Braidwood. This was not a lucrative goldfield but one where people stayed and lived peacefully, making a modest income; 6 children born on Little River goldfield; in 1870s family moved to Redfern where James worked as a carpenter. He died in 1909 and Mary in 1912.

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