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John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (1881 - 1940)
teacher, Electrical Engineer, Superintending Engineer of Post Office
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (1881 - 1940)

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Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971)
John O'REILLY (1854 - 1907) John O'REILLY



Bridget COSTELLO



Ellen O'SULLIVAN (1859 - 1933)











John (Jack) Francis Benedict O Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY

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Pic P1. Presentation to Queen

Pic 1. Presentation to Queen

b. 1881 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
m. 26 May 1913 Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (1886 - 1971) at Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia
d. 10 Sep 1940 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia aged 59
Parents:
John O'REILLY (1854 - 1907)
Ellen O'SULLIVAN (1859 - 1933)
Siblings (12):
Michael O'REILLY (1878 - 1879)
Mary O'REILLY (1880 - 1880)
Ellen Mary O'REILLY (1883 - 1960)
Johanna O'REILLY (1885 - 1904)
Mary Ellen A (Molly) O'REILLY (1888 - 1969)
James Joseph O'REILLY (1890 - 1968)
Joseph Bendict O'REILLY (1892 - 1959)
Frances Helena O'REILLY (1895 - 1975)
Peter Dominic O'REILLY (1896 - 1971)
Stephen Patrick O'REILLY (1899 - 1980)
Agnes Mary O'REILLY (1901 - 1901)
Lilian Bridget O'REILLY (1902 - 1987)
Events in John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY (1881 - 1940)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1881 John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY was born Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2712/1881
13 Jan 1907 26 Death of father John O'REILLY (aged 53) Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
26 May 1913 32 Married Catherine Maude WORMERSLEY (aged 27) Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia Note 1
1919 38 Electoral Roll Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Wickham Terrace
1925 44 Electoral Roll Hendra, Queensland, Australia Chermside St
1933 52 Death of mother Ellen O'SULLIVAN (aged 74) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1936 55 Electoral Roll Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia 48 Webster St
10 Sep 1940 59 John (Jack) Francis Benedict O'REILLY died Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1940/9223 Jno Fran Oreilly
Note 1: 5895/1913, Petersham - have certificate
Personal Notes:
Personal Notice The Argus 31 December 1938
"Mr. John F. O'Reilly has been provi- sionally appointed as superintending en- gineer of the Postmaster-General's De- partment In Melbourne. He has been In a similar position In Brisbane for two years, and before that time was in Perth. He succeeds Mr. S. W. Gleed, who left some time ago to become superintending engineer in Sydney."

Obit The Argus 11 Sep 1940
" MR. JOHN_F. O'REILLY

The death, occurred yesterday in the Mercy Hospital, East Melbourne, of Mr. John Francis O'Reilly, 59, superintend- ing engineer of the Postmaster-General's Department, Victoria. Beginning his career in the N.S.W. Education Department in 1898, Mr. O'Reilly transferred to the Post-office in 1900, and later had extensive experience In all States. From 1900 to 1918 he was attached to the postal engineering staff in N.S.W. In 1918 he transferred to South Australia, and in 1919 to Queensland, where he was divisional engineer of southern Queensland. In 1927 he was promoted to supervising engineer of lines, attached to central administration In Melbourne.

In 1935 Mr, O'Reilly was promoted to superintending engineer In Western Aus- tralia, and in 1936 he was given a similar position in Queensland. Later he came to Melbourne.

Mr. O'Reilly is survived by a widow, who is known throughout Australia for her work as a pottery maker."

Obit in Courier-Mail 11 Sept 1940
" Mr. J. F. O'Reilly Dies At 59

Mr. John Francis O'Reilly, 59, superintending engineer of the Postal Department, in Victoria, died in a private hospital in Melbourne yesterday. He had been in the service for 42 years. He was transferred from Sydney in 1919 to the engineering branch in Queensland, to take charge of the telegraph and telephone lines in the Southern division of the State. In 1927 he was promoted to be supervising engineer attached to the Chief Engineer's Staff, Melbourne. During his occupancy of this position he was one of the members of a special commission to investigate telegraph and telephone line construction throughout the Commonwealth. Later he went to Perth as superintending engineer of Western Australia, and returned to Queensland in a similar capacity in November, 1936. With Mrs. O'Reilly, he made a world tour in 1937, during Mr. O'Reilly's furlough, and was present at the Coronation festivities. Mr. O'Reilly was appointed early last year to the position of superintending engineer, Victoria. He leaves a widow."

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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