Margaret Brien (1816 - 1860)

Born Jan 1816 in Kilskeery Co, Tyrone, Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of John Alexander Brien — married 4 Oct 1835 (to 6 May 1860) in Kilskeery, County Tyrone, Ireland

Descendants

Died 6 May 1860 at age 44 in Emu Creek, Fish River Creek, NSW, Australia

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Biography

Margaret and John Brien travelled to Australia shortly after their marriage on 4 October 1835. They emabarked on the Clyde from Liverpool on 18 October 1835 and arrived in Sydney on 8 February 1836. They lived in Bathurst and Kelso for a about 4 years then started a sheep farm at Fish River Creek and then in 1858 moved to Emu Creek. Margaret Brien died on 6 May 1860, aged 43 years at Emu Creek Farm, on the Fish River near Mutton Falls downstream from the confluence of the Duckmaloi and Fish Rivers near Bathurst NSW; she was interred at O'Connell cemetery.

Sources

http://magni.webcity.com.au/~rnb47409/families/brien.html#rebecca_brien_b1845 death NSW BDM # 2942/1860 "The Brien Family Irish Origins" Colin Fleming Brien and Noel Wickliffe Brien. privately published about 1986