Bridget Callinan
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Background
Bridget Callinan was born in County Clare, Ireland. She did not marry, and died on 27 September 1897 at Leigh Creek, Bungaree. She was buried in the Ballaarat Old Cemetery, on 28 September 1897, aged 72.[1]
Bridget died at Warrenheip in 1897, aged 72.[2]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
She was reportedly nineteen at the time of Eureka. With her two younger cousins, she searched among the dead and dying at the Stockade for her three brothers, Patrick, Michael and Thomas in the mayhem after the attack on the 3 December 1854. Her brother Michael had two bullets in his thigh and her brother Patrick had two bayonet wounds, one between his shoulders and one under his left breast. According to family history Bridget confronted the heavily armed police and soldiers causing a diversion which allowed her two brothers to escape with the assistance of her cousins.[3]
Callinan was present at the Eureka Stockade after the battle. Bridget Callinan distracted the soldiers while her wounded brothers were helped away, but they were later arrested. She was the cousin of John Hanrahan.[4]
Family
Brigid Callinan was the sister of Patrick Callinan, Thomas Callinan and Michael Callinan.[5]
A Bridget Callinan, possibly a relative, died of pneumonia in 1869 aged 46.[6]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
Dorothy Wickham, Women in 'Ballarat' 1851-1871: A Case Study in Agency, PhD. School of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ballarat, March 2008.
Dorothy Wickham, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women of Eureka in Journal of Australian Colonial History, 10, No, 1, 2008, pp. 99-115.
Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, BHSPublishing, 2009.
http://www.eurekapedia.org/Blood,_Sweat_and_Tears:_Women_at_Eureka
Clare Wright, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Text Publishing, 2013.
Dorothy Wickham, Not just a Pretty Face: Women on the Goldfields, in Pay Dirt: Ballarat & Other Gold Towns, BHSPublishing, 2019, pp. 25-36.
References
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Victorian Death Registration (7535 / 1875), 1897.
- ↑ http://www.irishidentity.com/geese/stories/eureka.htm, accessed 6 November 2021
- ↑ Supplement to the Ballarat Courier, 27 March 1998, p.6.
- ↑ Supplement to the Ballarat Courier, 27 March 1998, p.6.
- ↑ Supplement to the Ballarat Courier, 27 March 1998, p.6.
External links
https://www.eurekaaustralia.org.au/leigh-callinan.html
