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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Carden

Native Place

Mayo [only on shipping list]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: dairymaid, cannot read or write; possibly the girl born 19 Nov 1831 'Sporthill', Bohernasup, Kilmoremoy, Ballina, Co Mayo, daughter of Thaddius (Thady) Carden, who died in Ballina workhouse, Co Mayo in 1864, mother Biddy Gilboy may have died c.1844; empl. by James & Sarah Kerr, Melbourne £8, 6 months [the Kerrs were English who sailed to Port Phillip from VDL in 1840 to operate as mattress makers & upholsters for 40 years –thank you for this Grant Beasley]; married Robert Heaton (Tasmanian Convict from Preston, Lancs) in Dec 1851 in Melbourne; 6 children; Mary died 9 Dec 1894 in Hawthorn, buried Kew Catholic cemetery. husband's death not yet confirmed

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