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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Creaghe (Creagh, Crae)

Native Place

Listowl [Listowel], Kerry

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Patrick & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

shipping: housemaid, reads only, no relatives in colony. In list of girls from the Listowel Workhouse, Listowel Poor Law Minutes, 2 Mar 1850 as Creagh; Immigration Correspondence 50/700 2 Sep 1850 to Moreton Bay with per Eagle with group of 15 orphans as Mary Creagh 19; married Thomas Taylor, Brisbane 1851; 8 children; husband a labourer & sawyer of Brisbane & Moggil Creek; she died 26 May 1913, buried Ipswich; husband died 1920 aged 103!

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