Info provided by Joyce - saalmans@bigpond.com : (Verification TBD)
Mary was born in Bethnal Green, London about 1852 and emigrated with her parents, William Swiney and Agnes Dredge nee Coleman, together the rest of their family in 1865. She was their eldest child. It gets complicated in that William left behind three adult married children by his first wife (Charlotte Pullen)
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Mary Ann SWINEY can be found on the following English Census records:
1861 - 21 Maidstone Place, Shoreditch, London, RG9/248; Folio: 50; Page: 20; GSU roll: 542599.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1861&indiv=try&h=5600150--------------------
NSW Shipping record:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5538&indiv=try&db=nswimmdeposit&h=44603--------------------
Court Case - South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839-1900) Tuesday 5 November 1872 p 3
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/39273106?searchTerm=ockenden---------------------
Mary Ann SWINEY can be found on the following Victorian Electoral Roll records:
1903 - Point Nepean Rd, Cheltenham, Vic, Australia.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5538&indiv=try&db=auselectoralrolls&h=81375531909 - Point Nepean Rd, Cheltenham, Vic, Australia.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5538&indiv=try&db=auselectoralrolls&h=87267931914 - Rosebud, Vic, Australia.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5538&indiv=try&db=auselectoralrolls&h=96994331919 - 20 Raleigh St, Footscray, Vic
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5538&indiv=try&db=auselectoralrolls&h=10860431