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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Cassidy [Casserly, Casey]

Native Place

Castle [Newtowncashel aka Cashel], Longford

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Patrick & Anne Skelly (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

on list of 50 girls from Longford PLU minutes Dec 1848 as no 28 is probably girl shown as Mary Casey, aged 15; shipping: no occupation noted, reads only, no relatives in colony; dau of Patrick C & Ann Skelly, bap 4 Feb 1833 in parish of Newtowncashel, Co Longford, also place of bap of her 4 siblings'; parents died 17 & 28 Feb 1848; confined 24 hours on voyage for attacking Ann Naughton, severe reprimand & liberated; Reg 20 Nov 1849 WPO Report, Sydney, 26 Nov 1849, Indentures cancelled; orphan wages, 1 Dec 1849 empl James Turner Grocott; mar 1) John Wilson in Wagga Wagga 1855, as Mary Casserly; marr 2) John Wilson at Gundagai, c.1860. At birth of 2nd & 3rd child, known as Mary Cassidy but also recorded as Casserley; died at Boatmans near Reefton on South Island of NZ in 1895.

Story

Cassidy (Casserley, Casey) Mary per Digby