3 June is another day full of anniversaries in the Feeney, Killion, Quinn and Hand family
Edward Feeney died on 03 June 1893 It's 125 years since Edward Feeney died at 64 Cooper Street, Surry Hills, NSW. Edward was "our" Jane's older brother. He was born about 1829 in Granard, County Longford, Ireland and came to Australia in August 1843 with his younger brother, Thomas. Here they joined their mother, Jane snr, and sisters, Eliza and Ann. Edward and Thomas worked as boot makers in the inner city - a trade that many of their male descendants followed. In 1853, Edward married Margaret McCabe at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. In 1849, Margaret arrived with "our" Jane on the Digby. She was also an "Irish Famine Orphan". Edward and Margaret had 8 children. Their first, Edward James, died as an infant. The other children were still living at the time of Edward's death and are shown in his funeral notice - William, Edmund, Matilda, Isabella (wife of Thomas Wilson), Alfred, Amelia (wife of Robert Walton) and Selina. Edwar...