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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

MacGuire (McGuire, Magner)

Native Place

London(?)

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads. Empl. D. Cunningham, Kinlochwe, £10, 6 months. Thanks to the research of Fiona Cole we know Mary married Richard Young Trotter in 1856, 1 child, lived Beechworth. Richard died in 1857. Mary was later sent to gaol for larceny & vagrancy; she attempted suicide and was admitted to Beechworth Lunatic Asylum in 1873 where she died 1882. Married noted her native place as Tipperary.

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