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Participant Info

First Name

Mary (Margaret)

Surname

Hawkins

Native Place

Capperquin, Waterford

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write; as Margaret empl. Mrs Oldman, Yarra St., Geelong, ₤9, 6 months; married James Egan, Geelong,1850; at least 2 children born in Geelong and Ballarat. Mary was repeatedly convicted in the Geelong courts for petty crime especially during the 1860s.

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