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

Like all family history enthusiasts, I'm keen to ensure the information recorded for our family is accurate and complete.   Recently, I was asked to check the information recorded for Francis Thomas (Frank) Quinn's wife, Elsie May Sheppard.   My first stop was a review of Public Members Trees on  ancestry.com.au.   Only one tree had the same details as mine for Elsie's birth date and birth family - while four had different details! The confusion has occurred as Francis's wife, Elsie May, was born in 1897 and her birth was registered in Queensland.  In 1898, "Elsie Sheppard" was born in Kempsey.  It's this birth that's attributed to Francis's wife in the other four trees on  ancestry.com.au. So here's a post for other enthusiasts to review.....   Elsie May Sheppard was born on 21 September 1897 to John Thomas Sheppard and Elizabeth Low You.  Her birth was registered in Queensland.   Click here to view.    Elsie married...

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...