Sunday, October 3, 2021

ANNIE BURNS

Annie Burns (née Hunt) and infant Thomas Henry Norbert Burns.
 The headstone is her mother’s - Bridget Hunt née Nixon.

Burns family, Goolma ca 1887
Source: Kylie Bennetts

Identities to be confirmed but suspected as follows:
  • The woman nursing the baby is Annie Burns (née Hunt) and the baby is her son Thomas Henry Norbert Burns.
  • The old lady is very likely Winifred Burns (née Rankin) and the old man may be her second husband Charles Kerny (a former convict, ??-1908). Winifred's first husband, Thomas, died in a droving accident in 1864.
  • I think the main family (the man and his wife and most of the children) are likely Thomas Burns/Byrne and his wife Mary Bassett. That would date the photo to exactly 1887 as Thomas died that year.
  • The girl in the back row (4th from left) is their daughter (Hannah) Annie Burns 1874–1953.