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Participant Info

First Name

Mary/Margaret

Surname

McCarthy

Native Place

Dungarvan, Waterford

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, probable sister of Bridget McCarthy also on New Liverpool; empl. Matthew Keogh, Little Bourke St., £10, 12 months; apprentice to Mrs Keogh, Bourke Lane. Article "Matrimony", 'Argus', 5 Oct 1849 notes that she appeared at Police Office a few days after being apprenticed she wanted to be released to marry a young man she employed at Kirk's Bazaar who had '...become enamoured with the rustic beauty and made her an offer of marriage...'; this unconfirmed and several possible marriage for her which need to be researched

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