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Participant Info

First Name

Mary (Mary Ann, Elizabeth)

Surname

Blake

Native Place

Aughrim, Galway

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Patrick & Mary(both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Inchinnan (Sydney 13 Feb 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; orphan wages – empl by Mr Charles Wiseman 3 Aug 1850 & purchased shoes from Mr R Cleary 25 Jan 1851; married 1) Charles Whittingham, a mechanic, in Bathurst, 1851; 9 children; bigamously married 2) to Francis Young, at Redfern in 1881; she had been abandoned by Charles Whittingham with her four youngest children & owed a shop in Leichhardt; died relatively well-off as Mary Elizabeth Young in 1922

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