Margaret was born and died in Tipperary. Parents were John and Margaret Seymour.
She married James Tierney and had 2 sons Michael and Patt born in 1851 and 1853.
Margaret remarried in 1856 to John Egan and had one daughter, Winifred Egan.
Michael immigrated to New York in 1872 and Winifred immigrated to Australia in 1878.