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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Dunphy

Native Place

Abbeyleix, Queens [Leix]

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Simon & Margaret (mother living in Abbylais)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

William & Mary (Sydney 1849)

Details

shipping: needlewoman, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony; mother's maiden name Morrissey; empl. M Ryan, Ryansvale, Goulburn district, £8, 1 year; married 1852 Goulburn to James Atkins who worked as shepherd & bootmaker on neighbouring Springfield; 12 children; lived Goulburn, Cooma & Bombala, died at Bombala 1891 a year after her husband's death at Mahratta, Bombala.

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