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Participant Info

First Name

Mary [Mary Theresa]

Surname

Slattery

Native Place

Kilkenny

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Thomas & Caroline [from descendant]

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Eliza Caroline (Melbourne 1850

Details

shipping: housemaid, cannot read or write; Minutes of Poor Law Guardians, 4, 6 & 12 Dec 1849, noted final approval of 20 girls selected from Kilkenny workhouse; empl. Thomas Butler, Gippsland, ₤12, 12 months [probably at 'Deighton near Bairnsdale]; as Mary Theresa, married William Weeks, Melbourne 1851; 11 children; lived Sydney and East Kempsey; Mary died 1890 of chronic bronchitis & rheumatic gout, buried Rookwood.

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