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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Gaynor

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

14

Parents

Patrick & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

shippping: occupation not recorded, can read & write, no relatives in colony; South Dublin PLU BG79/G/2 Nos 2261, Mary Gaynor, aged 12, mother in Macclesfield [Chelsea, England?], no occupation, RC, apprentice clothes, South City, entered 30 Mar 1846, discharged 2 Dec 1848; 1858-9 Report on Irish Female Immigrants, Appendix J No.252 as Mary Bridget Gaynor on 9 May 1851 indentures with John Wells cancelled for absconding & to be sent up the country for employment; possibly married John Hughes at St Marys in 1849.

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