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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Phillips

Native Place

Carlow County

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

Not recorded on shipping

Religion

Church of England

Ship Name

Lismoyne (Sydney 29 Nov 1849)

Details

shipping: farm servant, reads, no relative in colony. Empl. JN Beit, Ermington, Sydney, £8, 1 year. SMH, 12 Feb 1850, p.2: STABBING WITH INTENT TO DO SOME GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM. Mary Phillips, one of the Irish orphan girls, apprenticed to Mr. Beit, of Ermington, was brought before their worships Messrs McDougall & Wilton, charged as above stated; the circumstances are as follows: the girl had gone into the room of the butler, named Andrew Jones, to perform some domestic duty, of which she had been forbidden; the man being displeased, found fault, a quarrel ensued, and the girl seized a carving knife and thrust it into the man’s groin. He was taken to the hospital, and the girl was remanded.

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