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Participant Info

First Name

Mary (Maria)

Surname

MacGrath (McGrath)

Native Place

Roscrea, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write. Empl. Daniel Curry, Melbourne, £9, 3 months, noted as McGrath, aged 16; in 1853 married widower Timothy Ahern (25 years older, grocer with 3 daughters); 4 children; lived Richmond; Timothy drowned at Hosie’s Baths in 1875, aged 80 & had considerable property in Richmond; Mary died 1921.

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