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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Seymore (Seymour)

Native Place

Castletown [Castletownarra], Tipperary

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Michael & Bridget (mother living at Castletown)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, relations in colony: father living in Sydney; Register 2 No.869 Fr J McEncroe recommends Patrick McGrath as a fit person to be entrusted with Mary Seymour [he was actually her uncle (brother of her mother and it may be him she meant rather then her father as living in Sydney); married Martin O'Brien, St Marys Sydney 1852; 4 children; Mary died 1915 at her son's home Pyrmont, Sydney; her uncle Patrick McGrath sponsored many immigrants 1840s-1860s

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