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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Crehan

Native Place

Gort, Galway

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

John & Catherine (father living in Gort)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in colony. To Moreton Bay Depot; empl as house servant by Mr Gallon, South Brisbane, £8, 1 year; mother’s maiden name Cahill; married John Scott (Johannes Schott, a mariner from Lubeck, Germany) at St Mary’s RC 1856; 8 children; lived Globe Street, The Rocks before moving to Little River goldfields near Braidwood by the 1860s; returned to Surry Hills, Sydney by 1890 & lived at 491 Crown Street, where John died 1899; Mary died there 1906; buried Rookwood under a substantial headstone; grandson, Cecil Arthur Donovan killed in WWI & a great grandson, Jack Donovan, died in Changi POW camp in World War II and is buried at Krangi Cemetery, Singapore.

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