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Participant Info

First Name

Mary Ann

Surname

Reilly [Riley]

Native Place

Dublin

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Thomas & Catherine (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lismoyne (Sydney 29 Nov 1849)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads & writes, no relatives in colony. Empl. T Maher, Pitt St., Sydney, £8, 1 year. 1858-9 Report, Appendix J, No.120, 31 May 1850 indentures with Mr T Maher cancelled for improper conduct; married ex-convict Thomas Caton, East Maitland in 1854; he was a horse breaker & gold digger; 8 children; lived Hunter Valley & New England, NSW. Mary, a midwife, drowned & disappeared at Timbarra near Tenterfield in 1867 when crossing a flooded river to help a pregnant woman; Thomas Caton, died Gladesville Hospital, Sydney in 1883 of old age and dementia.

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