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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Rattigan

Native Place

Ballymahon, Longford

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Thomas & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Digby (Sydney 4 Apr 1849)

Details

on list of 50 girls from Longford PLU minutes Dec 1848 as no 49 Mary Rattigan, aged 18; shipping: house servant, reads only, no relatives in colony; employed at Parramatta Hospital, SMH 12 Feb 1850, p.2 Parramatta Quarter Sessions: 'Another Irish orphan named Ratracan, apprenticed to Mr Williams, overseer of the Parramatta District Hospital, was, a few days since, charged with being so indolent and impertinent, that her master and mistress could not keep her ... indentures cancelled, and the girl returned to barracks'. Im.Cor. 49/281 Parramatta, 50/357, sent to Twofold Bay [Eden] with 7 other girls on the Shamrock, 3 May 1850; details sent to Trevor McClaughlin in 1991: married Thomas Stevens in Boyd Town c.1852, c.5 ch, died in childbirth 26 May 1861, buried Tree Waterholes [2872/1861], aged 35. Needs to be confirmed

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