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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Gill

Native Place

Galway, Galway

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Michael & Catherine (fathr living)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Inchinnan (Sydney 13 Feb 1849)

Details

shipping: school mistress, read & write, no relatives in colony, complaint: provisions cut short by Mr Taylor until doctor interfered. Register No.773 Sydney transfer and increase in wages. Max Barrett, 'The Very Dawn of Settlement', 2006, p.69 that the grave of Esther Gill was erected by her sister Mary who came on Inchinnan in 1849; other Gill family came on 'Telegraph' 1853 were Esther aged 20, Catherine 15; Mary lived in Parramatta St, Sydney; Esther died in Binalong in 1860 of consumption, aged 22, obviously cared for by her sister, Mary.

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