KEESHAN, Hannah

Name – KEESHAN, Hannah
Born – 1859
Died – 2/08/1941
Location – No 24 in the Catholic Section
Mother – Sarah Geneive Young
Father – John Grieve

Notes – Hannah was born in 1859 to Sarah Geneive (nee Young) and John Grieve. She came from a large family with her siblings being Grace, Bessie, Genivieve, Sarah, James, Rachel, Ellen, John, Agnes and Margaret.

Hannah Grieve married Daniel Keeshan in Victoria in 1891 at the unusually older age of 32. The couple had five children, Andy, William, Daniel Jnr, James and Sarah. The couple moved to the Tara district with her sister Genivieve and her husband John (Jack) Naughtin.

Hannah and Daniel moved with their family to Tara and the Moonie River area in 1908. Daniel died in 1926, leaving Hannah and their adult children to run the three properties they owned in the area.

Census records for Hannah can be tracked from 1913 right up until her death in 1941. In 1913 she is with Daniel Snr and Andy at Mulleelee Tara and until her death was either at the Moonie River block or with the kids at Killara Goranba.

Hannah was very highly regarded in the district which was evident from the newspaper record of the large gathering at her funeral. Hannah left 3,506 Pounds realty and personally when she died.

Hannah Keeshan does not have a headstone to mark her final resting place.

Newspaper Article – Obituary

War Service File  –

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