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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Geoghegan

Native Place

Athlone, Westmeath

Age On Arrival

15

Parents

Thomas & Eliza (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

Shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in colony, sister Eliza also on Digby; Im Cor. 49/281 & 49/328 Parramatta. Register 2 No.589, 7 May 1850 Mary Blackett requests her transfer to Mr Thomas Brennand; No.664, 14 May 1850, agreement with Thomas Brennand; married 1) Richard Burgess in 1855; 3 children (he apparently lost at sea); married 2) Michael Galvin (also from Athlone) in 1862; 5 children; lived Woolloomooloo, Sydney where Michael died in 1884; Mary was a boarding house keeper; died 1891.

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