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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Wetherall [Weatherall]

Native Place

Thurles, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

John & Eliza (father living in Thurles)

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

shipping housemaid, reads & writes, relations in colony: 'aunt Mary Sherdon/Sheridan supposed to be married to a person named Ellis' [is actually Edward McAlister]; Im Cor. 49/804 4 Dec 1849 Brisbane; empl. William Kent, Brisbane, £10, 2 years; married John Bishop, 1850 in Brisbane; 7 children; lived Gladfield, Logan River & Fortitude Valley; after 26 years of widowhood, she died 1914, buried Dunwich.

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