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Participant Info

First Name

Honora

Surname

O'Brien

Native Place

Glyn, Limerick

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

James & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; apparently married Patrick McMahon in Adelaide 1851; 11 children, one died as infant, first born in Bendigo, next six not registered, 9th & 10th born in Lexton, Victoria & Alice, the last child, born at Doctors Creek; Patrick granted crown land at Caralulup, near, Talbot; he died in 1885 aged 82; Honora died in Marrickville, Sydney in 1913 aged 80.

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