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Frederick BYRNES (1864 - 1953)
Farmer/Grazier/Dairyman
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Frederick James BYRNES (1900 - )
George Joseph BYRNES (1902 - )
Eva Mary BYRNES (1905 - 1934)
John BYRNES (1909 - )
Kathleen Ellen BYRNES (1912 - )
Frederick BYRNES (1864 - 1953)

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Catherine Bridgett GILBERT (1879 - 1951)
Frederick BYRNES











Ellen DOWNES












b. 11 May 1864 at Lake Wollard, Victoria, Australia
m. 05 Apr 1899 Catherine Bridgett GILBERT (1879 - 1951) at Dookie, Victoria, Australia
d. 05 Nov 1953 at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia aged 89
Parents:
Frederick BYRNES
Ellen DOWNES
Children (5):
Frederick James BYRNES (1900 - )
George Joseph BYRNES (1902 - )
Eva Mary BYRNES (1905 - 1934)
John BYRNES (1909 - )
Kathleen Ellen BYRNES (1912 - )
Events in Frederick BYRNES (1864 - 1953)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
11 May 1864 Frederick BYRNES was born Lake Wollard, Victoria, Australia 71
05 Apr 1899 34 Married Catherine Bridgett GILBERT (aged 19) Dookie, Victoria, Australia 71
15 Mar 1900 35 Birth of son Frederick James BYRNES Corowa, New South Wales, Australia 71
14 Oct 1902 38 Birth of son George Joseph BYRNES The Rock, New South Wales, Australia 71
1905 41 Birth of daughter Eva Mary BYRNES The Rock, New South Wales, Australia 71
1909 45 Birth of son John BYRNES The Rock, New South Wales, Australia 71
1912 48 Birth of daughter Kathleen Ellen BYRNES The Rock, New South Wales, Australia 71
03 Sep 1934 70 Death of daughter Eva Mary BYRNES (aged 29) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 71
14 Feb 1951 86 Death of wife Catherine Bridgett GILBERT (aged 71) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 71
05 Nov 1953 89 Frederick BYRNES died Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 71
Death of son Frederick James BYRNES Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 71
Death of son George Joseph BYRNES Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 71
Death of son John BYRNES Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 71
Death of daughter Kathleen Ellen BYRNES Pakenham, Victoria, Australia 71
Burial The Rock, New South Wales, Australia 71
Personal Notes:
Frederick share-farmed for Mr G Cross, Mulwaila. Sandy Creek Station was split up and by ballot he drew 480 acres of land at The Rock. He came to The Rock with 13 year-old Jim Toohey (later an auctionier), took possession in June 1900 and cleared it, first pitching a tent then building a homestead. The family arrived in 1902. The seed on the first wheat crop was the size of carraway seed, and bags had to be hung on the horses so they could walk through the thistles. On 31 Dec 1904, a bushfire with a 70-mile front burnt one of the workmen, James William Spencer Fallon, 21yrs, due to be married, who died on 1 January 1905 and is buried in the C of E section of the Old Wagga Cemetery. Fred put his family in the cellar and saved the homestead with buckets of water, while the horses survived up in the scrub.
Source References:
71. Type: Book, Abbr: Wagga Pioneers, Title: Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District, Auth: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Publ: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Date: 2004, Locn: http://www.waggafamilyhistory.org.au/
- Reference = 46 (Marriage)
- Reference = 46 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = 46 (Birth)
- Reference = 46 (Burial)
- Reference = 46 (Death)

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
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