Petition of Mary Shaughnessy, County Limerick, requesting government assisted passage to New South Wales in Australia

Petition of Mary Shaughnessy, Limerick, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting government assisted passage to New South Wales in Australia. Reveals her husband, Michael Shaughnessy, was transported 8 years ago to that colony and claims from information received in a letter of 1824 he has became well established there. She regrets ‘both her children are now dead’ and she herself is ‘reduced to the lowest ebb of distress’. Asks that an answer be sent to Mr P Roche, Barrack Street, Limerick. Her account is verified below by Henry Watson, mayor of Limerick, and 5 others persons. 1 item; 3pp