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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Sullivan

Native Place

Kilmeale [Kenmare], Kerry

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Sylvester & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony. Kenmare PLU Minutes show Mary Sullivan as 1 of 25 selected for this ship, she from Tuosist East; it seems highly likely that she is the girl who married carpenter, William Harvey; at least 10 children; lived Eastern Creek & Penrith most of her life; husband died 1886; she died 1909 at Lemongrove, Penrith; buried in Sir John Jamison's old RC cemetery at Jamisontown on the York Estate [one child named Sylvester seems a positive link to this girl]

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