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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Phelan

Native Place

Castletown, Queens [Laois]

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Patrick & Sarah (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: nursemaid, reads & writes, no relatives in colony; 158 days at Hyde Park Barracks, then to Maitland depot, hired after 3 days; married at Paddington 1859 to Samuel Clarke Royal Marine HMS Ibis; he was a ship's deserter who changed his name to George Miller by 1861 & Mary became Mary Ann Miller; 10 children; all property in Mary's name and he vanished, Mary died in 1917 at Broken Hill, aged 83 and is buried there in the RC cemetery..

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