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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Shanahan

Native Place

Tipperary

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Not recorded

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Pemberton (Melbourne 1849)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads. Empl at Portland by Alexander Laurie, £13, 6 months. Laurie arrived to Portland with his wife in Feb 1842 and became local vicar, left the church and started local newspaper in 1848; Mary married Samuel Chadwick in 1850 at Digby SW Victoria; a Samuel Chadwick had been transported to Tasmania in 1838, arriving in Portland in 1845 a free man; moved to Adelaide Lead in 1854/55; 8 children; Samuel died 1869 in Maryborough, Vic; Mary died 1907 Maryborough.

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