NAVIGATION
Participant Info
- First Name
- Mary
- Surname
- Munroe
- Native Place
- Norfinn [New Inn], Tipperary
- Age On Arrival
- 16
- Parents
- Not recorded & (both dead)
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Ship Name
- William & Mary (Sydney 1849)
- Details
- shipping: farm servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; family history found Clonmel notes as birthplace, parents as Michael Munro & Catherine Darcy; 'Norfinn' is probably New Inn, c.18kms from Clonmel; Mary from Clogheen Workhouse, Tipperary. Empl. EF Taggart, Castlereagh St, Sydney ₤7-8, 2 years; indentures cancelled-sent to Maitland with 11 other orphans, on 16 Dec 1850 (Im Cor 50/91)-employer’s husband, possibly died; married 1) Michael Carey 1852, Maitland; 7 ch; Michael Carey fell from roof of RC church which he was repairing on 21 Dec 1864 & died-Mary left with 7 ch under 10-forced to place in orphanages; she stayed Maitland; Matilda b.23 Nov 1866; marr 2) Joseph Ridgley, widower, in 1871, Maitland; 5 ch. Mary died aged 54 of apoplexy in Sydney in 1887; buried RC Rookwood.
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