Biography

The deceased's father, William John Brannigan, was born about 1852 in Antrim, Ireland.  He arrived in Melbourne in July 1861 and married Mary Jane Marquis in 1878 (Marriage Registration 1495/1878).  She was born in 1855 in Scotland.  There were three girls and two boys born to this marriage.  They were: Samuel Henry born 1879 in Kerang; Jane Ruth born 1881 in Kerang; an unnamed male child born and died in 1883; Alice Maud born 1884 in Kerang; Ethel May.

By 1910, Mary and William were living in Mount Magnet, Western Australia and may have arrived in the state a little earlier.  Mary died 8 November 1931 in Perth Death Registration 101684/1931, Perth) and is buried in Karrakatta. She was aged 76 years.  Her husband died aged 83 years in 1936 (Death Registration 101292/1936, Perth).  Ethel's brother, Samuel, died in Leonora in 1958 (Death Registration 4300018/1958, Mt Margaret), aged 79 years.