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Participant Info

First Name

Mary (Maria)

Surname

Higgins

Native Place

Athlone, Westmeath

Age On Arrival

16

Parents

Timothy & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Tippoo Saib (Sydney Jul 1850)

Details

Shipping: farm servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony, sister Margaret also on Tippoo Saib; Register 3, No.171, 7 Feb 1851 in service of Thomas Alstone, Sydney; married Dublin-born mariner John Math(t)ews 29 Nov 1852, Garrison Church, Sydney; 6 children; lived the Rocks, Sydney; moved to Jarvisfield, Picton, c.1860; Maria attacked in her hut by a neighbour in Aug 1861, later lived at Carriage Creek while John worked on the railway; Sep 1861 Maria complained to the Police that a woman tried to incite her to commit a breach of peace; lived at Dumphey’s farm but had to leave; May 1865 Maria charged at Campbelltown, with stealing £6 & gold, found guilty, sent to Darlinghurst Gaol, released 5 Mar 1866; John accidentally killed in 1868 in rail accident Berrima; Maria died 25 Nov 1907 at the Newington Asylum, buried RC Rookwood as Mary Mathews in an unmarked grave.

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