Title Avery and Neary Research
MARY ELLEN NEARY MARRIED FREDRICK AVERY 1800,S MARY WAS MY GRANDMOTHER, FREDRICK GRANDFATHER, MARY LIVED AT ROCKY MOUTH N.S.W. AT MCLEAN MARY,S FATHER WAS MICHAEL NEARY FROM COUNTY ROSS COMMON IRELAND AND HER MOTHER WAS FROM IRELAND MAIDEN NAME KATHRIN O,DRISCOLL MARRIED IN AUSTRALIA LIVED AT KIAMA N.S.W. BEFORE HER MARRIAGE TO MICHAEL, MARY ELLEN HAD QUITE A FEW SIBLINGS MARY ELLEN WAS THE ELDEST, SHE HAD A BROTHER CHARLES PARNELL WHO WAS AN ANZAC AND FOUGHT IN THREE BATTLES IN HAVRE FRANCE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR, AND AT GALIPOLI, SHE HAD ANOTHER BROTHER MARTIN HE WAS YOUNGER, SISTERS WERE VERONICA, BROTHER WILLIAM WAS IN THE N.S.W POLICE FORCE FOR OVER 35 YEARS AND RETIRED WITH COMENDATIONS FOR BRAVERY, MARRIED TWICE I THINK MARY SOMETHING WAS HIS SECOND WIFE?I HAVE HEARD THAT THERE WERE MANY MORE BROTHERS OR SISTERS, THEY MOSTLY LEFT THEIR DISTRICT AND LOST TOUCH WITH ONE AND OTHER OVER THE YEARS.SOME AR BURIED IN THE MCLEAN CATHOLIC PART OF THE LOCAL CEMETRY AND CHARLES PARNELL THE ANZAC WHO WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR, NEVER MARRIED AND PASSED AWAY IN HIS SEVENTIES.MY GRANDMAOTHER HAD TWO CHILDREN A DAUGHTER ALMA, AND A SON DONALD FRANCIS WHO WAS MY FATHER, HE WAS A BIT OF A NAUGHTY BOY, LIKED A DRINK OR TWO AND LOVED THE PONIES MY POOR MOTHER ONLY LIVED UNTIL HER 45TH BIRTHDAY SHE WAS MARGARET BEST FROM DURHAM IN ENGLAND MIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA IN 1928 TO BE A DOMESTIC SERVANT SOMEWHERE IN N.S.W BEFORE MARRIAGE TO MY FATHER IN 1934.I HAD ONE SISTER AILEEN PASSED AWAY, TWO BROTHERS, ONE LIVING, NORMAN ALFRED AVERY AND ONE WHO IS DECEASED ANTHONY ROBERT.AVERY. ANYONE WHO CAN IMPROVE ON THIS GENEALOGY I WOULD BE PLEASED OR IF IT IS USEFUL TO YOU FOR GENEALOGY PURPOSES FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME, THANK YOU. HELENAVE.
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