Mary Ann Kelly

Mary Ann Kelly (1861?- 1945) is my paternal grandmother's mother who originated from Rath, County Clare. She was about 17 when she was sent to Australia to live with an old Kelly Uncle in Rosedale area Victoria Australia in late 1870's. Her older sister, Nellie 19, was sent to USA, area unknown. They were escaping starvation after the potato famine in Ireland. Mary Ann never heard from her parents James Kelly and Margaret Reidy ever again, nor did she know what happened to her sister Nellie. I've yet to find any Irish records, this information is from her living grand daughter who is 95. I have found Australian records of Mary Ann's marriage to Daniel O'Connor (1859 - 1903) in Yarram in 1884 and her death in 1945 in Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia. Following her husband's death in 1903, she lived with my grandmother Margaret O'Connor ( 1892-1973) and husband Archibald Buchanan Daniel until 1944 near Leongatha, Vic. She then went to live with another daughter, Marcella (1904-1967) and died there in 1945. I am looking for her passage to Australia believed to be sponsored by her Kelly Uncle and hers and Nellie's birth certificates (Roman Catholic) in Ireland. If anyone recognises the story and has information about Nellie Kelly in USA, that will be wonderful.