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Participant Info

First Name

Margaret

Surname

Donovan

Native Place

Cork

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Timothy & Ellen (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, reads, no relatives in the colony, Cork Union; possibly from Skibbereen; married Leonard Maxwell at Sydney, 1854; 4 children born on Pig Island on the Shoalhaven River, 1856-60; moved to Sydney, bought property and lived near Mascot; died of paralysis and general debility in 1891.

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