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+ | Bridget lived in a tent at Black Hill close to the Stockade. She went to the scene of the fighting after the Eureka battle with several other women, and assisted the wounded and dying miners. As the police were bayoneting the diggers she said: “He is dead”, in order to save them. Bridget and Thomas Hynes had a daughter, Catherine, born on 13 July 1855 and baptised at St Alipius Roman Catholic Chapel. The sponsors were Patrick Hynes and Mary Nolan. Bridget Hynes was a sponsor to a baptism at St Alipius in 1854. Bridget (Hogan) and John Torpy had a son, Patrick, baptised at St Alipius Catholic Chapel, Ballarat, on 11 October 1854. The sponsors were Patrick and Bridget Hynes. Later, Bridget and Thomas Hynes farmed at Leongatha in the Tarwan Valley and both are buried at Leongatha. She died in 1910. On her tombstone (pictured) it states that she hid her husband’s pike and pants so that he could not participate in the Eureka battle. | ||
==Post 1854 Experiences== | ==Post 1854 Experiences== |
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Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Bridget lived in a tent at Black Hill close to the Stockade. She went to the scene of the fighting after the Eureka battle with several other women, and assisted the wounded and dying miners. As the police were bayoneting the diggers she said: “He is dead”, in order to save them. Bridget and Thomas Hynes had a daughter, Catherine, born on 13 July 1855 and baptised at St Alipius Roman Catholic Chapel. The sponsors were Patrick Hynes and Mary Nolan. Bridget Hynes was a sponsor to a baptism at St Alipius in 1854. Bridget (Hogan) and John Torpy had a son, Patrick, baptised at St Alipius Catholic Chapel, Ballarat, on 11 October 1854. The sponsors were Patrick and Bridget Hynes. Later, Bridget and Thomas Hynes farmed at Leongatha in the Tarwan Valley and both are buried at Leongatha. She died in 1910. On her tombstone (pictured) it states that she hid her husband’s pike and pants so that he could not participate in the Eureka battle.
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.