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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Mullins

Native Place

Coolany, Sligo

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: shipping: house servant, could not read or write; empl. Peter Martin, Great Collins St., ₤8, 3 months; married William Henry Howes 1852, Melbourne; Howes moved to NSW, 8 children noted on her death cert; after 5 children (youngest was Frank in 1866) she suffered from Melancholia (post-natal depression?) from 1867 & spent time in psychiatric hospitals Tarban Creek & Bayview House. Meanwhile, William fathered 2 children by Fanny Horspool & then 5 children with his housekeeper Henrietta Ethel Bedser, who he finally married 2 months after Mary’s death in 1897, she was buried Waverley.

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