William Ferns - Johanna Leary
Sorry team, just quick notes here. There are a lot of pages still to be researched and written in Ferns Roots and this page is one of them.
Maybe I should tease you with my William and Johanna Ferns notes and at least give you my only family picture of Johanna and family at the Yarraville house...
Ferns home Yaraville, with Johanna and children
William, Jack, May, Kit, Harry, and Tony
William Hubert Ferns 1843 Birr, Kings Cty, Ireland - 1925 Yarraville, Melbourne, Victoria, bu. Footscray , Melbourne
married 1875 St Alipius Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Johanna Leary 1844 Melborne, Victoria - 1914 Yarraville, Melbourne, Victoria, bu. Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria.
(NB. Johanna's baptism record was botched up by the church and she was recorded as being Judith, along with her twin sister Margarite (who was actually Margaret). The incorrect names refer to other twins who were baptised by the same priest that same day. Johanna's death date does not make sense as she was corresponding with the war department about Jack's death in 1917, so that needs clarification I have a vauge memory that a grandchild or sisters grand child may have been buried with William and Johanna in the same plot and that William may have been buried under the name 'Fearns'. More work required here.)
Children were:
William Bernard 1875, Melbourne, Victoria - 1941, Toowong, Queensland.
Albert 1877 - 1878 Melbourne, Victoria
Hubert (Tony - a Catholic Seminary allocated name) 1879 Port Nepean Quarantine Ground, Victoria -1963 Invercargill, Southland, NZ. Married 1907 in Invercargill to Isabella McQuikin 1985-1962; thirteen children all born Invercargill, NZ: Mary (Mamie) 1908, Johanna (Joan) 1909, Dorothy (Dolly) 1911, Catherine (Cathie) 1913, Edna 1914, William Hubert (Billy) 1917, Tui Olive 1919, Patricia (Pat) 1921, John Bernard 1923, James Henry (Harry) 1925 first arrival to twin Nesta Sylvia, Donald 1930-1931, Michael David (Mick) 1932.
Kate (Kitty, Kit) 1881 Melbourne Victoria - TBC. Married William Allen Robbins, Perth 1906. Children Margaret Ursula Robbins 1907-1907 Perth, and Winsom Audrie Robbins 1909 Perth, died abt 1983 NSW; married Jack Gilbert, then Clayton William F (Bill) Lilley circa 1958 Sydney NSW. (Girl) Robbins 1911-1911 Perth.
John Francis (Jack, Tacker) 1883 Hotham, Melbourne Victoria - 1917 London England. Married 1905, Gore: Helen Josephine McCann b. 1883 Invercargill NZ - d. 1975 Heidelberg Victoria. Children Ivy 1909 Invercargill -TBC; John William (Bill) b. about 1910 Invercargill - d. abt 1973, Frances Helen b. 1912 Invercargill NZ - d.2001 Melbourne Victoria.
Joseph Henry (Harry) 1885 - TBC
Mary Alice (May) b. 1887 Melbourne Victoria - d. abt 1973 Yarraville, Melbourne Victoria. Married Ernest Alfred Le Page abt. 1921 Melbourne, Victoria.