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Participant Info

First Name

Maria

Surname

Walsh

Native Place

Graigh [Craigue], Kilkenny

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Patrick & Bridget (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

Shipping: needle woman, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Empl. Edward Bailey (Bayly), Clerk of Petty Sessions, Mudgee, £6-9, 4 years; married Patrick Carty 1855, Mudgee; 13 children; Patrick sponsored his brothers James & Martin per Vocalist 1856; he died 1880; Maria continued to run their farm at Hargraves; she died 1913 at Wellington Flat.

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