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

Thank you to "chinagirl828" for sharing this photo of Mervyn on ancestry.com.au on 19 February 2011 Mervyn Reginald Killion was born on 02 October 1918 in Lismore, NSW.  He was the older son of George Killion and Ethel May Kay.  Mervyn is the great-grandson of John Killion and Jane Feeney.   When he was 21, Mervyn join the AIF and served in the Second World War.  In 1944, Mervyn married Bernice Ellen Peace Benson in Kingsford.  Bernice was also from the Lismore area.  They divorced in 1947.   In 1949, Mervyn married Marie Josephine Petra Hoban.  The marriage was registered at Canterbury.  Mervyn and Marie lived in Sydney where he worked as a dogman, fireman and storeman.  In the early 1980s, Mervyn and Marie moved to Port Macquarie.  Marie died on 08 July 1986. Mervyn died on 2 August 1994 at Port Macquarie.

Thanks for your posts and information as we learn more about the children of John and Jane Killion. We’ve now covering the children of Thomas and Jane Seward. Then, we’re onto stories of convicts, “Irish famine orphans”, absconders and a lot more…..and it's all in the family! Thomas Killion and Mary Jane Wood married on 09 June 1886 - 131 years ago today…. We have a photo of Mary Jane but do you think we’ve identified a photo of Thomas? The left hand photo is from a collection held by Helen and Karen, descendants of Thomas and Mary Jane.  Thomas and Jane's oldest child, George (1886 to 1932), is shown in photos to the right. They're from the collection of Martyn, George's grandson.   Please post your comments about our unidentified young man:- Do you think he's "a Killion"? Could it be another photo of George or one of his siblings taken in the early 1900s? Could it be a photo of Thomas, George's father, taken around 1880? Finally, if yo...