Portrait of Mary Tighe

Mary Tighe was born in Dublin to Theodosia Tighe, a Methodist leader, and William Blachford, a Church of Ireland clergyman and librarian. She had a strict religious upbringing, and when she was twenty-one she married Henry Tighe (1768–1836), her first cousin and a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Inistioge, County Kilkenny. The marriage is said to have been unhappy, though little is known.玛丽·蒂格（Mary Tighe）出生于都柏林，其父母分别为卫理宗（Methodist）领袖西奥多西娅·蒂格（Theodosia Tighe）与爱尔兰国教会（Church of Ireland）神职人员兼图书馆馆长威廉·布拉奇福德（William Blachford）。她自幼接受严苛的宗教家庭教育，21岁时便与表兄亨利·蒂格（Henry Tighe，1768–1836）成婚；亨利·蒂格曾担任基尔肯尼郡因斯蒂奥格选区的爱尔兰议会议员。尽管这段婚姻据传并不美满，但现存相关记载甚少。