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Participant Info

First Name

Mary

Surname

Gillard

Native Place

Ballyna [Ballina], Mayo

Age On Arrival

19

Parents

William & Margaret (both dead)

Religion

Roman Catholic

Ship Name

Panama (Sydney 12 Jan 1850)

Details

shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in colony, sister Catherine also on Panama. Empl. P Daly, Wollongong, £8, 1 year; married ex-convict Phillip McGrath at Wollongong 1850; 11 children (first Wollongong, rest at Isabella near Rockley); Philip died 1871 and then we lose Mary.

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