The Killion, Quinn and Hand Families of Port Macquarie and Kempsey and their Feeney Family

Absalom Lyons (1912 to 1921) This old, crumpled photo is one that stays with you when the story's attached. While I've seen a number of copies, this copy comes from  MyHeritage . It's been shared by a member of the Lyons family. Absolom is the great-grandson of John Killion and Jane Feeney. He was born on 27 June 1912. He's the second child and only son of Absolom Lyons and Annie Killion. Annie was the daughter of John and Jane's son, Thomas. Absolom Lyons, 28, and Annie Killion, 23,  married in 1910 in Sydney.  Their first child's birth was registered in Sydney and the other three in Kempsey- Doris Marion - 6 November 1910 to 27 June 1996, Absolom - 27 June 1912 to 26 October 1921, Monica Mary - 14 February 1914 to 23 December 1977 and Kathleen Clare - 13 November 1918 to 20 October 2009. Young Absolom looks so angelic. He's about two years of age. The family had settled back on the Macleay by this time. The 1913 NSW Electoral Roll shows them living on the ...

Jane Feeney, our many times great-grandmother, had five children with John Killion and five children with Thomas Seward.  James and Richard, the last two children, were twins and died shortly after birth.  The other eight children lived to be adults and seven had children. Thomas, the third chid, was the first of the Killion children to succumb to bronchial illness and the first of the adult children to die.  So on 19 December 1917, 100 years ago, Thomas died at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney with the cause of death recorded as "broncho pneumonia".    Thomas was buried the following day in the Catholic section of Waverley Cemetery.  Mary Jane, his wife, and Annie Lyons, their daughter, where also buried there in 1940 and 1975, respectively.  Sadly, the cemetery is not well maintained which is interesting as you pay $10.25 for sheet showing the burial site - included to save others the cost!  Many descendan...