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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Browne [Brown]

Native Place

Ballyna [Ballina], Mayo

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

Thomas & Bridget (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, relations in colony: a sister Bridget Browne per ship [not named]; employed by Scottish settler, Dr Colin A Anderson & his wife Mary (nee Sinclair) at Newstead Station, Inverell, New England, £7-8, 2 years. Applications for orphans, Register 2 No.455, 12 Jan 1850 indentures with Jermiah Donovan, Sydney [given she was in northern NSW these were probably not exercised]; married Richard Cooke, Armidale 15 Mar 1853; 9 children born Newstead Station, Wellingrove Station near Inverell, then Maronoa & Darling Downs districts, west of Toowoomba. Mary died 2 Apr 1898, buried with husband in Goombungee Cemetery, Queensland.

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