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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Shea

Native Place

Kilmeale, Kerry

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Patrick & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: needlewoman, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony, Kilmeale? [Kenmare] Union. One of 25 selected for this ship from Kenmare Union. There are two Mary Shea's selected from Kenmare, one from Tuosist East, the other from Kenmare east-not able to distinguish them at this stage. Both are wrongly shown as from Killarney by Dymphna McLoughlin in 'The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine', pp.255-264

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