Ann Doolan
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Background
Ann Doolan, the daughter of Ann Hayes (formerly Carigg). Ann Hayes married Nicholas Doolan. She died at Sale Hospital in 1895 aged 75.[1]
Notes
- A very old resident, Mrs Doolan (reports the Maffia Spectator), who died at the Sale Hospital recently from the effects of burns accidentally received, was born in Killaloo, and came to Melbourne 1840, on the 6th of June, in the emigrant ship Duchess of Northumberland. Melbourne was a village, containing one hotel, a few stores and houses built of wattle and daub, the present city of Collingwood being a large lagoon. Mrs Doolan was personally acquainted with " Johnny " Fawkner, Batman, John O'Shannassy, and other notable early colonists, and was an eye witness of the Parliamentary riots. She resided with her husband, the late Nicholas Doolan, at Crooked River, in 1848, and was at Mount Macedon on Black Thursday, when every stitch of clothing was burnt off her. Another woman close by remarked that it looked like the day of judgment, and later she and her two children were consumed the flames. At the time of the Eureka riots, Ballarat; she gave shelter to Peter Lalor, for whose body at the time a reward of £500 was being offered by the Government. The deceased was 76 years of age, and has left three sons and one daughter, Mrs B. Phillips, of Lucknow.[2]
