Bridget Byrnes

  General Notes:

Bridget arrived in Australia on the Winifred on the 1st of November 1856. She was 36 years old and arrived with her 16 year old daughter. Her occupation was noted as Farm House Servant. Her native place was Limerick and her religion Roman Catholic. She could read but not write. Bridget was noted as a widow on embarkation.
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. (Accessed 10th Feb 2017)

Bridgett Shanahan 36, Farm Hand Servant Native Place Nantinan, County Limerick, Ireland. Parents Patrick and Johanna Byrnes. Both dead. Roman Catholic, reads only. Relatives in Colony: Partick Neville (Son in Law)- Fish River, Bathurst. Arrived in good condition. No complaints about the trip. 10 Shillings.
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. (Accessed 10th Feb 2017)

Nantinan a townland and parish in the Rathkeale poor law union.

Bridget married Thomas Shanahan.