Mary O'Shiell
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Mary O'Shiell (1715 – d. after 1745), was a French-Irish privateer shipowner and slave trader. She is a known figure in the history of Nantes, alongside her sisters and Anne O'Shiell.[1]
Life[]
She was the daughter of the Irish Jacobite (1677-1745), who was born in Dublin but emigrated to Nantes after the Irish defeat, and Agnès Vanasse (1690-1724). The family manor of the O'Shiell, , became the gathering place of the large Irish colony in Nantes. She married Antoine Walsh, a leading slave trader in the slave trade of Nantes. In 1755, the O'Shiell family became ennobled.
References[]
- ^ Éric Lhommeau et Karen Roberts, Guide du cimetière de la Bouteillerie Nantes, Nantes, Le Veilleur de nuit, 2009, 88 p. (ISBN 978-2-9528652-5-8).
Categories:
- 18th-century French people
- French people of Irish descent
- French women in business
- 18th-century French businesspeople
- 1715 births
- French slave traders