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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Southern (Southerin)

Native Place

Newtown, Queens [Leix]

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Thomas & Mary (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lismoyne (Sydney 29 Nov 1849)

Details

Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relations in colony; empl. William Benson, Grocer & Corn Chandler, Victoria St., Wollomooloo, £7-8, 2 years; Register 2 No.457, 12 Jan 1850 indentures with William Benson; married ex-convict Patrick Godfrey 1852; 11 children; lived Parramatta, Pleasant Creek, Victoria & Wombat & Barwang near Murrumburrah in NSW; after ;ovomg on the goldfields, Patrick & Mary settled as farmers at Barwang. Patrick died 1881, buried Barwang; Mary died in Liverpool St., Cowra 1917, buried in RC Cowra.

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