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Shane Patrick O'CONNOR[1007] This person is presumed living.
Shaun O'CONNOR[990] This person is presumed living.
Simon O'CONNOR[993] This person is presumed living.
Sophie O'CONNOR[1010] This person is presumed living.
Thomas O'CONNOR[NI1229]17 AUG 1916 - 21 OCT 1977
Mother: Mary Josephine FARRELL Family 1 : Noreen Patricia O'BRIEN
_____________________ | _John James O'CONNOR ____| | (1872 - 1951) m 1900 | | |_____________________ | | |--Thomas O'CONNOR | (1916 - 1977) | _James FARRELL ______ | | (1831 - 1915) m 1864 |_Mary Josephine FARRELL _| (1874 - 1956) m 1900 | |_Catherine DELANEY __+ (1844 - 1925) m 1864 [NI1229] Tom, a twin to Michael, was born at Colac in 1916 and grew up at "Athlon e" in Alvie. He later attended St. Brendan's Coragulac, before becomi ng a school teacher, with French as his forte. In 1939 Tom and his brother Leo joined the AIF and saw action in the midd le east and became part ot the "Rats of Tobruk" legend, In early 194 2, he became seriously ill and was being repatriated, when the ship he w as on was forced to leave its paitents in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ). Once recuperated he joined Leo in Papua New Guinea. At the end og the war he returned home to Victoria and married Noreen O'Br ien in December, 1945. Noreen had been a nursing friend of his sister Pe g. Thry had seven children, John, Peter, Elizabeth, Christopher, Damie n, Mark and Paul. Noreen died in 1968, only a few days before Paul's thi rd birthday. The bulk of Tom's working life was spent as an Assessor with the Taxati on Department. He died at home in Reservoir in 1977. He was a great lover of sports a nd a mean card player.
Delaney's Corner family tree pages were created with GED2HTML v3.6a-WIN32 (May 17 2004) on 5/28/2011 9:32:39 AM W. Europe Standard Time. Wendy Catherine O'CONNOR[1004] This person is presumed living.
Carlene O'DONNELL[913] This person is presumed living.
Fiona O'DONNELL[914] This person is presumed living.
Jeanette O'DONNELL[915] This person is presumed living.
Kevin O'DONNELL[912] This person is presumed living.
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