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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Byrnes [Burns]

Native Place

Balynakil [Ballinakill], Galway

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Patrick & Fanny (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: Loughrea Union, needlewoman, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Empl. as house servant by Simon Scott, Turroombo? [Toowoomba?], Moreton Bay, £8, 12 months, hired from Moreton Bay Depot. In 1853 paid £7 to sponsor her brother, Martin Burns, who arrived by the 'Caroline' 14 Oct 1854.

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