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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Shea

Native Place

Cashel, Tipperary

Age On Arrival

17

Parents

William & Betty (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Lady Peel (Sydney 3 Jul 1849)

Details

Shipping: nursemaid, cannot read or write, no relations in colony; employed by J Wyld, Picton, £10, 2 years; married Windlin Gerhard, a German immigrant, in Campbelltown c.1851-5; 12 children. Mary possibly died at the time of the birth of her 8th child, Michael in 1877 but still unconfirmed. Her husband died at Junee Reefs in 1905.

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