The Glass family lived in Yackandandah Victoria Australia. They originated from Bratton in Wiltshire England. My grandmother’s sister Eileen Mackey married Joseph Glass. There are many Glass family members buried in Yackandandah cemetery.
Eileen Mackey married Joseph Glass in Melbourne on 20 November 1919. Eileen called “Sis” was my grandmother’s sister.
Wedding of Eileen Mackey and Joe Glass 1919
When my father was growing up he had a lot to do with his cousins, Joe and Bernard, sons of Eileen and Joe, even though they lived in country Victoria at Yackandandah. Because of his fondness for his cousins I have included old photos that we found in a biscuit box and information I have gathered on the Glass family in my Fanning research.
While I am not a direct Glass descendant I hope these photos and the report may be of interest to those who are directly related to the Glass family. I would love to know who the other people are in the above wedding photo.
Joe Glass with his 7 months old granddaughter, Eileen Glass, at Allans Flat in 1948Bernard & Joe Glass 1929Inscription on the back of the previous photo 1929Joe & Bernard Glass 1930Joe & Bernard GlassThanking their Aunt Ida, my grandmother.
Joe Glass
Gravestone of Jesse, Elizabeth, Arabella & Ethel Glass Yackandandah Cemetery VictoriaGrave of Edgar Lancelot Glass & Violet Evelyn Glass Yackandandah Cemetery
Grave of Teresa Glass Yackandandah Cemetery VictoriaGravestone of Mary Longton & Patrick Glass Yackandandah Cemetery VictoriaG E Glass 1943 and Mary Glass Yackandandah Cemetery
Grave of Delia Glass nee Morrissy & Ernest Glass Yackandandah CemeteryBridget Glass nee Seymour Yackandandah CemeteryEileen Glass nee Mackey and Joseph Glass Yackandandah CemeteryJoe Glass gravestone 1920-2004 Yackandandah CemeteryBernard F Glass Yackandandah Cemetery
Thomas Mackey was born in Co Limerick Ireland in 1853. He emigrated to Victoria Australia as did other members of his family. He married Bridget Burns in Echuca Victoria and they had nine children He worked as a draper and died in 1926. He is buried in Fawkner Cemetery Melbourne Australia.
Map of Irish Counties
Thomas Mackey, was from Co Limerick, Ireland. He was baptised on April 24, 1853 in Kilduff in the Parish of Pallasgrean & Templebredon in Co Limerick. His godparents were Patrick Mackey and Mary Treacy. His mother was Bridget Treacy and his father Thomas Mackey, a farmer.His grandparents were Patrick Mackey and Catherine Dwyer.
In Griffiths Valuation in the townland of Kilduff (1.5 kms from Pallasgrean) published in Nov 1850 there is a Thomas Mackey a farmer and also a John Mackey.
Griffiths Valuation for Kilduff Townland Co Limerick c 1850
Mackey Family Griffiths Valuation Showing Kilduff Townland Co Limerick c1850
I have started looking for connections between the various Mackey families in the areas surrounding Kilduff. Trying to find my 4x great grandparents, the parents of Patrick Mackey who married Catherine Dwyer.
In the 1901 Census for Kiduff Co Limerick Patrick Mackey and his family are listed. He was born about 1851 and is most likely an older brother of Thomas.
1901 Census for Kilduff Co Limerick Mackey1911 Census Kilduff Co Limerick Mackey Family
Thomas Mackey came out to Victoria about 1880 and was a draper. One of his descendants told me he was a floor walker in a major department store in Melbourne at some time in his working life.
In 1882 his address was Bourke St Melbourne and he was a draper. From 1903-1924 he lived in McPherson St Essendon.
Three of Thomas’s brothers and one sister and an uncle all came out to Australia, although not at the same time. There may also have been cousins as well who made the journey from Ireland.
His sister Catherine, born in 1835, and who married William Real in Co Limerick, came out in 1857. She died in 1900 in Northcote, Victoria.
Daniel Mackey who was born in 1842, died in Bendigo, at age 30, after being out here for only three years. He is buried in Sandhurst Cemetery, Bendigo, Victoria. There was a Daniel Mackey with a William and Nicholas Mackey (possibly cousins) who came out on the “Ocean Empress” in 1862. Catherine and Daniel Mackey are listed as being born in Pallasgrean Co Limerick. Edmond Mackey born 1856, also emigrated to Victoria. There he married Julia Ann Briscoe and they had a family of eight children. He died in Fitzroy in 1906.
Thomas Mackey aged 29, married Bridget Christina Burns, aged 23, on May 1, 1882 at St Mary’s Church, Echuca, Victoria. Bridget Christina Burns was born in Sunbury, Victoria in 1859. Her parents were Bryan Burns and Mary Canavan, both from Co Galway Ireland.
Below is their wedding record and a wedding notice from The Argus. Bridget’s father’s name is given as Berned Burns:
Wedding of Thomas Mackey and Bridget Burns The Argus 1882Bridget Burns & Thomas Mackey 1882 Marriage Certificate
Thomas and Bridget had nine children: Thomas Bernard 1883-1957, who married Anastasia Hearn; Eileen Alana 1884-1929 married, Joseph Glass and lived at Yackandandah; Victor Francis 1886-1944, married Adelaide Mathews; Mary Margaret 1888-1981, married Archibald Breen, Ida Theresa 1890-1974, married Francis Collins Fanning; Edmond John 1893-1951, married Ethel Belden; Christopher Patrick 1894-1958, married Barbara Pleasant Lohman; Alfred William 1896-1963, married Alice May Shanks; Doris Catherine 1899-1954, married Francis Cyril Antonie.
Mary Mackey and Archie Breen Wedding notice Albury Banner and Wodonga Express 1923Young Ida Mackey on the left with friend Ag Iverson date unknownThe Mackey daughters at Ida Mackey’s wedding Sept 15, 1915 Doris, Ida & Mary Mackey L-REileen Mackey, daughter of Thomas and Bridget Mackey, in her nurse’s uniform date unknownEileen Sis Mackey and Joe Glass Wedding 20 Nov 1919Bridget Mackey nee Burns, Ida Fanning nee Mackey & Eileen Mackey, Bridget’s granddaughter 29 May 1843Ida Fanning nee Mackey and her sister Mary Breen nee MackeyIda Fanning and her sister Doris AntonieAlfred Mackey on the left, son of Thomas and Bridget Mackey nee Burns 1909 Victoria Australia
Thomas Mackey died on the first of June, 1926, aged 73, from bronchitis and cardiac failure. He is buried in the Fawkner Cemetery Melbourne Victoria Australia.
Grave of Thomas Mackey 1853-1926 & Bridget Mackey nee Burns 1859-1944 Fawkner Cemetery Melbourne Australia
The following detailed genealogy report from Family Tree Maker traces the descendants of Thomas Mackey of Pallasgreen Co Limerick Ireland born about 1808 and Bridget Treacy his wife to present day Mackey family in Victoria Australia:
Mackey Descendants from Thomas Mackey Pallasgrean Co Limerick Ireland 2015
Francis Collins Fanning was the son of Edward Fanning and Sarah Collins. He was born in Bulla Victoria in1892 and became a builder. he lived in Essendon Melbourne. He married Ida Mackey in 1915 and they had four children. In 1932 he died aged 40.
Frank Fanning on the left and Pat Kelleher in the middle at Kilmore
Frank Fanning and a priest at Camperdown Presbytery 1930Francis Collins Fanning center Victoria Australia
My grandfather Frank Fanning is in the center. I don’t know when this was taken but he is obviously in his work clothes.
He was a talented builder. He is said to have built the original St Theresa’s Primary School and quite a few of the local picture theaters around Essendon.
His son Jack, also a builder, built the Presbytery at St Theresa’s. One thing I remember my father telling me about him was that he played the violin I also have been told he liked to bet on the horses.
One story I heard was that one time he won a thousand pounds on the horses and wanted to buy his daughter Eileen a piano with it, but Ida my grandmother was opposed to spending the money in this way and wanted to buy property. Frank prevailed and Eileen got a piano.Given how strong willed my grandmother was, this was no mean feat!
Advertisement for Frank Fanning Essendon Builder
Francis Collins Fanning, “Frank” Fanning, my grandfather was a builder in the Essendon area. This advertisement was in the local Church paper and may have been around 1923.
House built by Frank Fanning 1924
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Ida Theresa Mackey married Francis Collins Fanning on the 25th September 1915, in St Monica’s Church, Essendon, MelbourneWedding of Ida Mackey & Francis Collins Fanning 1915
Eileen Glass nee Mackey, Edward Francis Fanning, Francis Collins Fanning, Ida Mackey, Mary Breen nee Mackey, 1915
The wedding was at St Monica’s Catholic Church in Essendon, Melbourne, on Sept 25, 1915.
Hanging Rock John Edward Fanning, the boy in the middle, Nance Fanning nee Kelleher on the right, Jack Fanningher husband on the left, Frank Fanning on Nance’s right about 1928
Ida Fanning was an avid card player and president of the card committee at St Columba’s College in Essendon, where she organized the card afternoons until the early 1960’s. She also held card afternoons at her flat “Collida” in Stanley St Essendon. The name being a combination of her first name Ida and Collins, my grandfather’s second name. On her flat at Stanley St Essendon there was a brass plate with Collida on it. She taught me to play euchre in her front room. She loved the British monarchy and had numerous royal memorabilia.
Frank died at the age of forty after a three year illness.
Francis Collins Fanning Death Certificate 1932Obituary for Francis Collins Fanning in the Kilmore Free Press 3 March 1932
Ida Fanning died age 84 and they are both buried in Fawkner Cemetery Melbourne.
Grave of Ida and Frank Fanning Fawkner Cemetery Victoria
Bridget Christina Burns 1859-1944 was the daughter of Bryan Burns and Mary Canavan from Co Galway Ireland in 1857. Bridget Burns married Thomas Mackey in 1882 and had nine children. Her daughter Ida married Francis Collins Fanning. Bridget is buried in Fawkner Cemetery Victoria Australia.
Bridget Christina Mackey nee Burns Melbourne Victoria Australia
Bridget Christina Burns was born in Sunbury Victoria 1859 and brought up in Echuca which is two and a half hours north of Melbourne on the Murray River, bordering NSW.
Her parents were Bryan (Bernard) Burns and Mary Canavan both from Tuam, in Co Galway, Ireland. Bryan’s name was Anglicized as Bernard.
Mary Burns’ Signature
Mary Burns nee Canavan’s father was Patrick Canavan and her mother was Bridget Connor. Bryan and Mary were married in Kilrahan near Tuam in Co Galway when she was aged 20. They came out from Ireland in 1857 on the Ebba Brahe from Liverpool England.
Ebba Brahe 1857 Byrne passenger details
With Bryan, aged 29, came Mary his wife, aged 24, and their two children, Margaret aged 3 and John an infant. None could read or write. Bryan was to be employed for two months with a Mr A Nicholson of Upper Plenty, on the outskirts of Melbourne. Wages of 65 pounds.
This photo to the left may be of Bryan Burns. Perhaps he is wearing his railway blazer. If anyone recognizes this man I’d love to hear from you. This photo was taken by Alfred Wren in Echuca some time between 1870 when Wren was in Melbourne and 1879 when Wren died in Echuca. If this is Bryan he would have been between 39 and 48 years old.
A timeline of the Burns family movements in Victoria Australia:
“If you follow the time-line of the history of the railways in Victoria it co-incides with Bernard’s employment with the railways from 1859 through to the time of his death in 1881.
In 1859 the railway from Melbourne to Sunbury was opened, this was when the family was living in Sunbury their daughter Bridget Christina Burns was born there in 1859.
In 1862 the Melbourne to Bendigo railway line officially opened at Castlemaine, the family was living at Campbell’s creek near Castlemaine at this time. Michael Andrew Burns was born there in 1862.
In early 1863 tenders were called for the construction of the railway line from Bendigo to Echuca, the work began in late 1863. The family was then living in Porcupine near Maldon. Mary Jane Amelia Burns was born in 1864 at Porcupine.
The railway line from Bendigo to Echuca opened in late 1864. The family possibly moved to Echuca around this time. In 1866 Thomas Burns was born in Echuca.
Bernard was still working for the railways at the time of his death in 1881 and living in Echuca. His death certificate states his occupation as Railway Gate keeper, the family were living in a house supplied by the railways.”
(Source: Teresa Fairbairn, great granddaughter of Bridget Burns)
Sudden Death of Bryan Burns & his son-in-law Christopher Constable 1881
Burns Headstone Moama Cemetery Victoria
Bridget’s parents Bryan (or Bernard) Burns and Mary Burns nee Canavan are buried in Moama Cemetery, near Echuca in Victoria.
The inscription reads:
Erected by
Mary Burns in
memory of
her beloved husband
Barnet Burns
who died Oct 10 1882
aged 50 yrs
also their
son
Thomas
aged 5 mths
and their grandchild
Sophia
Beloved Wife of the Above Mary Burns
Died 12th May 1904
Aged 70 years
Bridget, aged 23, was married to Thomas Mackey, aged 29, on May 1, 1882 at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Echuca, Victoria.
Marriage Certificate of Bridget Burns & Thomas Mackey 1882
Bridget and Thomas had nine children: Thomas born 1883, Eileen “Sis” born 1884, Victor 1886, Mary 1888, Ida, my grandmother,1890, Edmond 1893, Christopher 1894, Alfred 1896 and Doris 1899. Ida Mackey married Francis Collins Fanning in 1915.Most of their married life they lived at 102 McPherson St Essendon. Bridget Mackey was affectionately called “Ma”. On her wedding certificate her occupation is a dressmaker and on her daughter Ida’sdeath certificate she is listed as a Department Store employee.
I have been told that my mother was very fond of her and that Ma approved of my parent’s marriage wheras my grandmother was opposed to their marriage on the grounds that my mother’s mother, Grace Collier, was a divorcee.
In 1891 Bridget Mackey signed the Women’s Suffrage Petition (as Mrs Mackey) and was living in McPherson St Essendon. Women went door to door to collect 30,000 signatures in favour of granting women the vote. It was presented to the Parliament of Victoria. The vote for women was granted in 1908. Bridget Mackey and Annie Meehan (nee Collins) were the only women in my family who signed this petition.
Bridget Mackey nee Burns died at Glenroy on December 18, 1944, aged 86. She is buried here with her husband Thomas Mackey who died on the first of June, 1926, aged 73.
Bridget Mackey nee Burns is buried in the Mackey Family Grave Fawkner Cemetery Victoria Australia
Bridget Mackey nee Burns, Ida Fanning nee Mackey and Eileen Mackey, Bridget’s granddaughter.
William Bernard, John Thomas, John Francis Burns all seated. Standing: Victor Gerald and Michael Patrick Burns outside “Roeander”. Before 1933
This photo includes John Thomas Burns the brother of Bridget Mackey nee Burns and some of his sons. John Thomas Burns died in 1933 so it hasto have been taken before then.
The following detailed genealogy reports trace the ancestors and descendants of Bridget Christina Mackey nee Burns from Ireland to Victoria Australia.
