Mary Magowan

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C H on 22nd June 2025

Name: Magowan, Mary Record Type: Convicts Departure date: 2 Sep 1845 Departure port: Dublin Ship: Tasmania (2) Place of origin: Fermanagh Voyage number: 260 Index number: 47165 Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1413825 https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1413825

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 4th January 2025

1845 - FRIENDS OF THE ORPHAN SCHOOLS Orphan Number: 1807 Orphan: Ann FERGUSON Mother: McGOWAN, Mary Father: FERGUSON, Edward Mother's ship: Tasmania 2 Father's ship: Age when admitted: 9yrs Date admitted: 9 Dec 1845 Date discharged: 18 Sep 1847 Institution(s): Queens Orphan School Discharged to: mother, married to Edwin Littlejohn per Lady Franklin Remarks: sister to Patrick Bradley, 4mths, at Grangegorman Gaol, but not at Queens Orphan School References: SWD7, 28 This orphan has been claimed by: Dianne Snowden Nine-year-old Ann Ferguson, daughter of Mary McGowan or Magown, arrived on the Tasmania (2) with her mother and was admitted to the Orphan School with several other children from the ship on 9 December 1845. Ann's younger brother, Patrick, died during the voyage on 20 September, only 18 days out of port. Patrick Ferguson, the son of Mary Magown died at 10 o’clock on the morning of 20 September, only 18 days out of port. He was only six months old. His illness was recorded by the ship's surgeon as 'cystitis'. According to the notes in the sick book, Patrick had been very sickly from birth and was 'much emaciated.' Twenty-nine year old Mary McGowan from Fermanagh had been transported for 7 years for the crime of larceny. https://www.orphanschool.org.au/showorphan.php?orphan_ID=1807

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 4th January 2025

CON15-1-3/CON15-1-3P248 No; 629. Status; 2 children - 1 child on board Aged; 30 years old 1847 - Marriage Permissions - 31 July 1847 Mary Magowan. Ship/free: Tasmania Edwin Littlejohn. Ship/free: Lady Franklin