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Participant Info

First Name

Mary Anne

Surname

McMaster

Native Place

Richill [Rich Hill/Richell], Armagh

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Joseph

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Diadem (Melbourne Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes; Trev & since: also noted as aged 16, Rich Hill, born Belfast, daughter of Joseph McMaster (b.Scotland); empl. Rev Edward & Mrs Mary Sweetman, Melbourne, £6, 2 years; in Mar 1850 Sweetman family went to Tasmania taking Mary with them; in Launceston in 1853 Mary married ex-convict John Reeves; 12 children; lived Devonport, later farmed at Barrington; husband died 1894; 4th child, Thomas (1860-1949) won first champion woodchop in 1891 & proclaimed champion axeman of the colonies in the 1890s; Mary died at Deep Creek, Wynyard, Tasmania in late Dec 1914; obituary in 'The North West Post' (Devonport) 5 Jan 1915. Photo in Barefoot & Pregnant, Vol 2, p.157.

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