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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Donovan

Native Place

Fermoy, Cork

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

John & Margaret (mother living in Fermoy)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, Fermoy Union, relation in colony: uncle, George Mason, shoemaker, Sydney; Fermoy Union on shipping; married London-born Walter Wales (aka Hugh Boyce or Boys) at 1853; Hugh had spent 2 years in America before gong to New Zealand, then arriving in Australia in 1846, and working as crew on coastal vessels for some years before settling at Newcastle, where he started the first ferry service from Stockton to Newcastle in 1853; 11 children, registered under the name Wales or Wells; both Hugh & Margaret died in 1915, buried CofE Stockton.

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