Category Archives: Botany/Eastern Suburbs

Trove Detective: Ellen O’Reilly: Where is John?

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Explorers Tree

In Search of John F. O’Reilly Now there are only the cemeteries for three of John & Ellen O’Reilly’s thirteen children left to find. Mary Ellen Walshe was buried at Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park in 1969 & the youngest child, … Continue reading →

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Yass, NSW. A Touch of Serendipity.

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Explorers Tree

A Troop of Brennans in the NSW Police Force. Patrick James Brennan (1887-1935) A few years ago I was researching the family of Patrick James Brennan who was born at Tinonee, near Taree in 1887, where his father was a … Continue reading →

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