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Participant Info

First Name

Sarah [Mary]

Surname

McCann

Native Place

Portadown, Armagh

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; as Mary empl. by Mrs John Shaw, Bellarine St., Geelong, ₤8, 6 months; probably the girl who married Martin Hickey, Heidelberg; 7 children; husband carrier, blacksmith & farmer, lived Croxton; died 3 Jun 1884, buried Hamilton; her estate valued at ₤111. She accumulated property in her own right by carrying on business in Hamilton as a boarding house keeper 1874-84.

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