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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Shea

Native Place

Kilmeale, Kerry

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

John & Honora (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. One of 25 selected for this ship from Kenmare Union. There are two Mary Shea's selected from Kenmare, one from Tuosist East, the other from Kenmare east-not able to distinguish them at this stage. Both are wrongly shown as from Killarney by Dymphna McLoughlin in 'The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine', pp.255-264

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