Bridget Mary Delia TYNAN was born in Higginstown, Kilkenny, Co Clare in 1855, as above.
I have her birth certificate, issued to me by a priest in Higginstown in about 1983.
Her date of arrival in Australia is uncertain. There are simply no records in ANY Australian
state of anyone with the same details as her, other than a possible entry to South Australia
in about 1874 under the name of Mary TYNAN, who is the right age as Bridget would have been.
Some of her siblings also emigrated to Australia. One was a priest in Queensland who later
returned to Ireland, after falling out of favour with the Catholic Church.