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Participant Info

First Name

Eliza

Last Name

Meara/Mara

Date of Birth

c. 1832

Native Place

Co Tipperary

Parents

Religion

RC

Ship Name

Travancore

Family

Married Thomas Pennyfather (RC, PHB) in Perth, 1/5/1853; witnesses were fellow passengers Patrick and Catherine McNamara; 7 children.

Other Details

Thomas was a sawyer at Toodyay and a farmer at York, Toodyay and Narrogin; he died in 1883 in an accident with a horse and dray.

Death

Died at her residence 'Mackie Bridge' at the age of 49 (carcoma of the stomach), 21/6/1882; notice in the eastern Districts Chronicle, 7/7/1882.