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Participant Info

First Name

Johanna

Surname

Coakley

Native Place

Kanturk, Cork

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

John & Catherine (father living in Kanturk)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads only, no relatives in colony. Joanna bap 23 Jul 1829, Kanturk, Co.Cork, parents John Coakley & Catherine Hayes; married John Best May 1853 in Presbyterian church, Windsor & remarried John Best in St Nicholas RC Penrith in Sep 1853; 4 children born Sydney, Bathurst and Mudgee 1854-63; husband died Gunnedah 1926.

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