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Participant Info

First Name

Hannah

Surname

MacMahon (McMahon)

Native Place

Kilrush, Clare

Age On Arrival

14/16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; aged 16 empl. James Delaney, farmer, Dandenong, £8, 12 months. He was a widower with a 3 year old daughter; married 1) James Delaney at St Francis RC, Melbourne, 1850, witnessed by shipmate, Bridget Sexton; lived Melbourne; 8 ch; James died 1861; Hannah had 5 more children with Benjamin Little between 1864-78; 6 of her 13 children died as infants; Hannah died 1905 aged 75 of senility, debility & exhaustion at home of her daughter at Clifton Hill, Melbourne, buried Oakleigh cemetery.

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McMahon, Hannah