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Participant Info

First Name

Mary [Mary Ann]

Surname

Owens

Native Place

Elphin, Roscommon

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Michael & Bridget (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

no orphans from Roscommon workhouse. Shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; Register No.963 Sydney application for her as needlewoman; married 1) John Cahill 1861, at Wellington, NSW; John died Jul 1886; 9 children; married 2) Joseph Lord 1892 Canowindra; no children; Mary died 1925 Canowindra.

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