Biography

The child's parents were married 28 September 1884 in Brisbane and began their family of eight children, born between 1885 and 1906. Sadly, they lost their first child but William Herbert was born next on 28 October 1886; followed by Georgina Catherine born 21 December 1888; Maria Daphne born 17 April 1891; Mary Gladys born 19 September 1894; Gwendoline May born 30 May 1897; Thomas Bartlett born 22 February 1900; John Joseph born 27 January 1906. The children's father died in 1918 in Muswellbrook, New South Wales. By 1921, his wife had moved to Petrie Terrace, in Brisbane and was working as a laundress. Ellen died 18 April 1940 in Brisbane.

William Herbert RYAN is buried in Dulbydilla.