Memorial for Mary Lahy

Mary Lahy was born at Johnswell (Kilkenny, Ireland) and baptised in St John's Catholic church at nearby Kilkenny city on 12 March 1793. She died in the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum on Moreton Island in Queensland on 27 January 1884 (aged 90 years) and was buried there the following day. She had been widowed four times. Her husbands Thomas Tobin and Cornelius "John" Bowe had died before she came to Australia in 1837. Her third husband William Boardley is probably the William Boadley who died from lunacy in the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum on 28 July 1851 and was buried at Hunters Hill the next day. Her fourth husband John Scott also pre-deceased Mary, but details of his death remain elusive.

She was admitted to the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum three days before her death and is buried in an unmarked grave in the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum Cemetery on Moreton Island in Queensland where she is among the 8246 inmates commemorated by the Dunwich Benevolent Society Memorial Wall.