2 January 1921: Ida Killion married Russell Weir

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 married Russell Weir at St Barnabas' Church of England, Waverley. Ida was thirty seven and Russell was thirty six. He was a clerk living at Marrickville at the time of their marriage. The entry in the marriage registry shows Ida and Russell's signatures. Ida's twenty one year old niece, Clarice Daphne Benson, was one witness. She was the daughter of Ida's sister, Maud. A little over two years after the wedding, Clarice died. The other witness was William Henderson who was Clarice's step father. 


Ida and Russell didn't have any children. They lived for much of their married life at 108 Queen Street, Woollahra. After her marriage, Ida was no longer able to continue her career in the postal service. Russell died on 27 August 1951 at his home. He was fifty six.
Some time after Russell's death Ida started living with her sister, Maud, at 3 Spring Street, Paddington. Ida died on 2 July 1868. She was seventy four. Ida and Russell are buried at the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Matraville.
Ida was the first cousin of my grandmother, Margaret Essie Woodlands (nee Gersbach). Essie was two years older than Ida and died three years before her. They lived less that ten kilometres apart for over forty years. However, as far as I know, they had no contact unlike Essie and Ida's other cousins, Cissie and Dattie Porter, who were in regular contact with Essie.

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