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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Reardon

Native Place

Croome, Limerick

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

John & Johanna (mother in Rathkeake Union)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, RC, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; married ex-convict John Colquhoun at St Marys, Sydney, 1853; husband was 13 years older & a labourer, farmer, sawyer; 11 children, lived Kincumber, West & East Maitland; family moved to Sydney in 1878; life was apparently a continuous struggle; Margaret died 1890 & husband in 1905, both buried Waverley.

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