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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Griffin

Native Place

New Ross, Wexford

Age On Arrival

20

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

New Liverpool (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; possible sister of Biddy also on New Liverpool; Empl. Patrick Cavannah, Merry [Merri] Creek, £10, 6 months; married Samuel Gardiner/Garner, a draysman, at St Francis RC, 2 Nov 1850; 8 children between 1850-68; Samuel died in Melbourne Hospital of cardiac disease in 1886, Mary of chronic alcoholism in 1891, both buried Melbourne General Cemetery.

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