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Participant Info

First Name

Maria

Surname

Lydon [Leydon, Layden]

Native Place

Galway

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Thomas & Sarah (mother in Galway)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Thomas Arbuthnot (Sydney 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads & writes, relation in colony: a cousin: Mrs Kelly. A Maria Laydon; employed as house servant by M. Kelly, Goulburn, £8, 1 year [ probably her cousin?]; married at Yass as Laydon to James Bartlett of Burrowa, 2 Oct 1851 [witness was Mary Trainor also on Thomas Arbuthnot]; 4 children, born in Sydney to 1857.

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