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Participant Info

First Name

Catherine

Surname

Marks

Native Place

Waterford

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

John & Bridget (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads, no relatives in colony. Register 2 No 456, 12 Jan 1850 indentures with Gabriel de Milhan, Hunter St., £8, 1 year. De Milhand went to his cattle property on the Clarence River and obviously Catherine went with him; Catherine married William Jones at Grafton in May 1855, recorded as Catherine Mary Theresa Marks; 6 children born Grafton 1857-66 and one died during their brief time in Queensland in early 1863; as William Kettle Jones her husband was an insolvent innkeeper at Grafton in Jul 1865 & Feb 1866 about the time that 'Kettle' was added to the name and they returned to Grafton from Qld; William died May 1885 Parramatta Asylum [8699/1885 aged 57]; Catherine died Jul 1893 at Newington Asylum [12086/1893].

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