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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Kearns

Native Place

Sligo

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Kennaway (Melbourne1848)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads; empl. Henry James, Bacchus Marsh £12 6 months; Mary Alice b.Ballynacarra (Ballincarrow); married Matthew Kemp (b.Great Yarmouth, Norfolk) 19 Mar 1850 St James Melbourne c.9/10 children; moved to Commercial Road, Prahran/South Yarra in 1853 where the couple remained until their death. Matthew died 31 May 1886, Mary 28 Dec 1900.

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