| The Callaghan shop in Collie, Western Australia |
She emigrated in 1898 travelling on the Ormuz. She witnessed the marriage of John Shine and Jane (Maria) Hanrahan on 5 May 1900 at Basilica of St Patrick, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia; (marr wit: Ellen Hanrahan).4
Research Notes:
The following are some notes Terry Shine made about the descendants of Ellen Callaghan (nee Hanrahan), who is the sister of his grandmother Jane Shine (nee Hanrahan), but only going down to those descendants that are known personally to him and to those that he thinks would be of interest to members of the Shine family tree in Western Australia. If anyone wants to pursue the Hanrahan family and their descendants, they should visit Padraig Kenny's website at www.hanrahanfamilytree.com
I do not know a lot about Ellen Callaghan (nee Hanrahan). The following is what I have found out about her and her descendants from some relatives notes but mostly from Anne Battista, one of her granddaughters and from what Padraig Kenny has on his website.
Ellen Hanrahan, (known as Ellie) born in 1877 in Kilbaha, Morvayne, in Co. Kerry, daughter of Michael Hanrahan and Margaret Cunningham (source: I have worked this out from her age at death recorded on her death certificate). She emigrated to Melbourne, Australia sometime in the late 1890's and lived with her sister Jane who had either come out with her at the same time or Jane may have already come out on an earlier voyage. It was while they were in Melbourne that John Shine, who had travelled to the goldfields at Boulder in West. Australia in 1898, returned and met Jane and Ellen (there is some conjecture that John and Jane may have known each other when they had lived in Ireland). I believe that John probably proposed to Jane and asked her to go back to WA \with him where they would be married. Jane would not go without her younger sister Ellen and so John took both of them to WA late in 1899 or early 1900 and John and Jane were married in Fremantle on 6th May 1900. The three of them then went to Boulder to live where John had a thriving business of supplying fresh vegetables and water to the miners while his wife Jane and her sister Ellen ran a boarding house and cooked hot meals for the appreciative miners.
I do not know where Ellen met her future husband Owen O'Callaghan. I have seen some notes that say it was in Melbourne, but going on what Anne Battista has told me, I think it was probably at Boulder where Owen was trying his hand at mining for gold.
Owen O'Callaghan was born in 1878? in Co. Clare and came out to Australia in ? The descendants of his family now go by the surname of "Callaghan". Anne Battista told me that she had heard that there were so many Irish people on the goldfields with surnames that started with an "O" that the Government bureaucrats of the day decided to drop the "O" from the Irish names when they were registering for mining licences, birth certificates, marriage certificates etcetera and a lot of the Irish descendants in Australia now do not have the "O" in front of their surname.
Owen and Ellen were married on 14th June 1902 in Boulder. It is interesting to note that their surname is spelt "Callaghan" on their marriage certificate and "O'Callaghan" on their burial records and gravestone.
From what I have heard from stories amongst relatives, Jane and Ellen must have been very close and their husbands John Shine and Owen O'Callaghan were very good friends. John and Jane moved to Roelands to take up an allocated 300 acre block of land shortly after the wedding of Owen and Ellen. Anne Battista remembers that her grandfather Owen was a grocer in Boulder and it is my feeling that he probably took over John Shine's business when John went to Roelands.3
