Our Family Blog
The central person in this blog is our 2nd great-grandmother, Jane Feeney. When we commenced in early 2017, we were focussing on Jane, her husbands - John Killion, Thomas Seward and Charles Moran - and their children and descendants. After a DNA breakthrough later in the year, we reunited Jane with her mother, Jane, and four siblings - Eliza, Ann, Edward and Thomas - and the scope of the blog expanded. Are you a Killion, Seward or Feeney descendant? If so, why not join our blog to share information and find out more about our families. John Killion arrived in Sydney on 19 January 1834 . He was transported from County Westmeath, Ireland. John received his ticket of leave on 10 July 1848. On 29 September 1851, he married Jane Feeney in what is now the Port Macquarie Historic Museum. John and Jane had five children before John's death on 21 July 1864. Jane arrived in Sydney on 4 April 1849. She left the South Dublin Work House for her new life as part of the Earl Grey Famine