Bridget Duhan(Dohan) was born in County Clare, Ireland, on March 1, 1835. She seems to be the same girl who the 1850 Irish Census Records cite as a 15-year-old girl under the last name “Dohan” residing in Breaghva Locality, Clondagad Parish, County Clare. She was a Roman Catholic. Sometime between the end of the famine (1852) and 1858 she emigrated to Canada and married a Baptist, John Sandham, who was farming in the Courtland area (near Tillsonburg, Ontario). The date of her marriage is unknown, but their eldest child, a son, was born in 1859, when she was 24 years old. Canadian census records show that both she and her husband were illiterate. In Courtland she bore nine children, eight of whom survived into adulthood. Several of them, if not all, were brought up in the RC faith. In the 1901 census, Bridget was living with son William on the family farm. She died in 1906. Family sources say that either her mother or grandmother was killed in the fights with the English.