In search of Nestors and Dillons
My great grandmother was Mary Nestor. She arrived Australia on 16 May 1859 aboard the Alabama. It was a Corry & Co vessel.. Mary married in 1862 at the gold-mining town of Beechworth, Victoria. She had seven children, my beloved grandmother being the fourth child. Mary died aged 92 years at Richmond, Victoria in April 1928. She had been a true pioneer.
Little is known of her, though she stated on her marriage certificate that she came from County Galway. Her father was a farmer, named Edward Nestor and her mother's maiden name was Dillon. I don't have a christian name. Mary and her husband were Catholics.
Mary would have been born around 1836, for she was 23 years of age when she stepped ashore in Melbourne.
For the first two years or so, Mary was in service, most likely to pay off the cost of her passage to Australia.
Any details would be greatly appreciated.
Peter Fitton
