Mary Kennedy is my great-great-grandmother. She was one of the 'Irish Orphans' who was taken from Dingle and sent to Australia. Shipping records state that she was 17 when she arrived in Sydney in 1850 on the Thomas Arbuthnot. Her parents were Daniel Kennedy and possibly Gubby or Debby Kalihan. Her occupation was listed as nursemaid. She couldn't read or write and had no relatives in the colony. After spending a short time at Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Mary was sent to Moreton Bay where she was indentured with James Cook at Ipswich. She then worked for John McIntyre, a storekeeper at Ipswich. She married William Samuels at Drayton parsonage on 28 July 1853. Their children were Sarah, William, Mary (Polly), Susan, Elizabeth (Betsy), Eliza (Eva), James, Ellen, Thomas, John, Edward Joseph, Kate and Lucy Edith, although Kate and Lucy may have been one and the same person. I'm descended from Susan Samuels.
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| Date of Birth | 1st Jan 1833 (circa) | |
| Date of Death | 1st Jan 1902 | VIEW SOURCE |
| Associated Building (s) | Dingle Workhouse | |
