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Participant Info

First Name

Mary Ann

Surname

Matthews (Marshall)

Native Place

Banbridge, Down

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

John & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Presbyterian

Ship Name

Earl Grey (Sydney 6 Oct 1848)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; Matthews on shipping and Marshall on dispersal list; empl as Marshall, by James Wann, sailmaker, Pitt St., Redfern, £10, 12 months; married William Henry Jones in Wellington New Zealand on 7 Jul 1851, 13 children; her husband's father was in charge of the convict barracks in Moreton Bay until 1849, then transferred to Welllington, New Zealand. His son, William, who married Mary Ann, was born in India when his father was in the British East India Co., possibly educated in boarding school in Ireland but came to Australia when his father took up the post in Moreton Bay in early 1840; William Jones died Oct 1899 and Mary Ann died Feb 1909, both in Wellington, New Zealand; both buried in the Bolton St. Cemetery, Wellington. Many thanks to descendants' imput.

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