O'CALLAGHAN, John/Joseph Francis

(-1895).

He was the son of James Callaghan, an Enrolled Pensioner Guard. He arrived in Western Australia on 15/02/1863 on the Merchantman with his parents. He married Anne Payne in Perth in 1874. Their children were born in Fremantle and Perth and were Roman Catholic. Their children were Mary Elizabeth (1875-), Joseph (1877-), Cecelia Mary Josephine (1878-), John (1879-), Anne (1880-), Francis John (1882-), Clara Gertrude (1884-), Theresa Anne (1887-), Catherine Mary (1889-), Alicia Matilda (1891-), Agnee Harry (1892-), Gerald Patrick (1894-), Magdalene Mary (1895-) and John F. (1895-). He was a teacher at Fremantle Roman Catholic Boys School from 1868 to 1889. He was a principal in 1884 at the Perth hospital. He, his wife, a son and a daughter all visited Bunbury in 1882 and 1883. He was a choir boy at St. Mary's and sang there almost all his life.

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