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Participant Info

First Name

Honora

Surname

Sheehan

Native Place

Clonmel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

18

Parents

Timothy & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Maria (Sydney 29 Jun 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write; Clonmel PLU Minutes BG67/A/10, p.358, Honora Sheehan, aged 17, one of 16 to travel per Maria; married Swedish seaman, William Edward Lewis, 10 Jun 1856, Port Macquarie RC; 4 boys 1 girl; William was a pilot boat hand and lighthouse keeper; Nora/Honora died 1913; her obituary noted a close friendship during childhood with Louis Becke, writer of South Sea stories.

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