Affidavit of Mary Brennan., this 25th day of June, 1883

Affidavit of Mary Brennan.

[Office of the Commissioners of Emigration, Castle Garden, New York.]

State of New York, City and County of New York, ss:

Mary Brennan, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That she is a native of Cahirciveen, county of Kerry, Ireland, and arrived at the port of New York, Jane 24, 1883, per steamship Furnessia, from Liverpool, via Valencia, Ireland. That she has two children with her, aged 17 and 5½ years, respectively, who are illegitimate; that she has been an inmate of the workhouse in Cahirciveen, county Kerry, Ireland, almost for the last twenty years; the last time two years consecutively; that her oldest child for the last year earned her own living as servant; that her and her children’s passage was paid to New York by the clerk of the union, Michael J. Driscoll, who also gave her money order for £3 10s. sterling on Henderson Brothers, 7 Bowling Green, New York City, agents of the above vessel; that she has no relatives or friends in America—says she has a son who is a British soldier stationed in Canada.