The O'Brien Family 

The photo above shows Catherine Howard, nee O'Brien, who was born during the 1863 voyage of the Queen of the Colonies to Queensland, Australia, surrounded by her surviving children. Catherine's husband Daniel Joseph Howard, born about 1849 in Blackstock, Cork, Ireland, died in 1905 at Toowong, Brisbane.   The couple were married in 1887.   Mary and Lucy were born in Christchurch  while the family were temporarily living in New Zealand.  Other children were born in Brisbane. Other deceased children were:   Charles Patrick Howard, born and died 1897                                                 Ellen Charlotte Howard, born and died 1901 John Howard married Annie Eva O'Hanlon in 1927. Mary Howard married Edward James Phillips in 1920. Lucy Howard married Thomas Walker in 1916. Francis Joseph Howard married Doris Wyreema Farrell in 1931.

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