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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Minnahan [Minahan]

Native Place

Skibbereen, Cork

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write. Empl. John Hopkins, farmer, Mercer Vale [now Beveridge] 24 miles from Melbourne, ₤8, 6 months; convicted many times; she had 8 children, the first by Henry Wallace, the next 4 by Charles Joseph Pruen, the last to Charles J Brown (the same man?). By 1867 only 1 child, David William Minahan, had survived. Her death not located.

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