GOOLMA STORE

1910 - GOOLMA STORE

Messrs. T. H. Marks and Co. are about to close their Goolma store, and to effect. that end they are now selling all their stock. I hear the store is to be still kept on by different proprietors, so no inconvenience will be experienced by the Goolma people.

Source: Wellington Times (NSW : 1899 - 1954) Thu 27 Oct 1910 Page 7

INDEX - BURNS-BYRNES

• BURNS/BYRNES
• ANNIE
• WINIFRED
• CATHERINE

ANNIE BURNS

Annie Burns (née Hunt) and infant Thomas Henry Norbert Burns.

 The headstone is her mother’s - Bridget Hunt née Nixon.

Source: Kylie Bennetts

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.