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2 January 1921: Ida Killion married Russell Weir

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Ida Killion is the daughter of Thomas Killion and Mary Jane Wood and granddaughter of John Killion and Jane Feeney. She was born in Smithtown on the Macleay River on 16 July 1893; the fifth of Thomas and Mary Jane's nine children.  Her parents moved to Sydney with their younger children between 1913 and the time of Thomas's death on 19 December 1917. They were living at 10 Church Street Paddington when Thomas died.  Ida has two entrees in the 1930 Electoral Roll. One is at 3 Hopewell Ave, East Sydney with her  mother and brother Albert. Her older sister, Annie Lyons was also living there with her three children, Doris, Monica and Kathleen. Annie  moved to Sydney after the death of her husband, Absolom, in 1923 and their son, Absolom, in 1921. The other shows Ida living at 48 Jersey Road Woollahra and working as a postal assistant.  The photo at the right has been taken from ancestry.com. It's held in the collection of Ida's great niece. On this day eighty years ago, Ida