Timothy Shanahan
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Background
Timothy Shanahan was born c1802 at Carigeen, County Tipperary, Ireland, to James Shanahan and Bridget Shanahan nee Kennedy. Timothy was often been referred to as Teddy Shanahan. He was often called Tagd (pronounced Taidie) which is the Gaelic equivalent of Timothy. His brother was Edward Shanahan.[1]
Timothy married Bridget Kinnane (from Upperchurch, County Tipperary, Ireland). The Ballarat Courier reported that Timothy had told them that while the Irish evictions took place at Carigeen seventeen homes were burnt down. The Shanahan family emigrated on the James T. Foord arriving at Port Phillip on 1 May 1851. They spent Christmas of 1851 at Geelong, then he decided to go to Ballarat. With the Glenn family their party made up a group of seventeen. Shanahan described to the Courier reporter that upon their arrival in Ballarat three inches of snow fell and he said “we were hardly landed on the Eureka when up came a commissioner and a trooper and demanded our grog; we had ten gallons of brandy, and had to give it up, and we had got it at the Post Office below, but we did not tell where we got it, thought the commissioner knew. [2]
Timothy and Bridget had the following children: Bridget born 10 December 1839 at Carigeen, Ireland (married Thomas Kirby at the home of her father on 27 March 1856 at Eureka aged 16. Bridget died 1922 at Ballarat age 91); Judy born 24 January 1842 at Carigeen, Ireland. (Died in Ireland); James born 6 March 1845 at Carigeen, Ireland; Judith born 9 March 1848 at Carigeen, Ireland (Died of measles aged 3 at Sea on the James T. Foord on 28 February 1851).[3]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Shanahan signed a letter to the Colonial Secretary written on behalf of Ballarat Catholics expressing their complaint concerning the treatment of Father Patrick Smyth’s servant, Johannes Gregory. Shanahan had a store within the stockade and was still listed as a storekeeper at Eureka in 1856.[4]
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.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Withers, William History of Ballarat 2nd Edition Ballarat Historical Society, 1980.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
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