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Background
Ann (Nancy) Quinane/Kinnane was baptised on 06 June 1830 at Upperchurch or Borrisoleigh, Tipperary, Ireland. She married Matthew Ryan at Liverpool, and they sailed to Australia on the Phoebe Dunbar in 1952. Nancy and Matthew Ryan lived on the Eureka Lead. Matthew filed for compensation for his tent being burnt down during the Eureka Riots. The tent was inside the Eureka Stockade.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Nancy, also known as Eureka Nancy, was present during the Eureka Stockade battle, and was said to have looked after the children. She is credited with assisting the amputation of Peter Lalor's Arm. The tent was inside the Eureka Stockade when it was stormed by the military on 03 December 1954, and the Ryan's claimed for compensation for good lost during the destruction of the Stockade.[2]
There was a National School tent within the stockade with an enrolment of 40 children, Nancy is said to have looked after the children during the battle.
Post 1854 Experiences
After their tent was burnt inside the Eureka Stockade Nancy and Matthew Ryan moved to Learmonth where they ran the Camp Hotel for many years. Matthew became the Mayor of Learmonth. After his death in 1870 Nancy managed the hotel for many years. She met and married Archibald McAuley. Ann McAuley (Ryan/Kinnane/Quinane) died in 1901 at Learmonth's Camp Hotel aged 68 years, and is buried in Grave 32 at Dowling Forest Cemetery.
- I NANCY RYAN, of Learmonth, widow, do hereby give notice, that it is my intention to apply to the justices sitting in a Court of Petty Ses sions to be holden at Learmonth, on the 31st day of December, next, for a certificate authorising the issue of a publican's license for a house situated in Learmonth, at present licensed and known by the sign of the Camp Hotel.
- The 13th December A.D. 1866
- NANCY RYAN[3]
- Transfer— The license of Nancy Ryan for the Camp hotel, Learmonth, was transferred to Charles Stannton Knowles. The court then adjourned.Cite error: Closing
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- Transfer— The license of Nancy Ryan for the Camp hotel, Learmonth, was transferred to Charles Stannton Knowles. The court then adjourned.Cite error: Closing
Family
Nancy Kinnane's parents were John Kinnane and Mary Fogarty, and her brother was Patrick Quinane.
The Children of Nancy and Matthew Ryan
1. Anastasia Ryan (baptised at St Alipius, Ballarat on 16 September 1855. The sponsors were Patrick Quinane (Kinnane) and Mary Quinane.)
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See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
