Stephen Whelan b.1862
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In July 1888, 25 year old Steve Whelan married Elizabeth Jane Brown, at the home of John O’Hara of Heriot, West Otago. According to the records Elizabeth was born in Scotland c1863, the daughter of James Brown and Margaret Ballantyne nee Margaret Devoy). Elizabeth had been widowed in May 1887 and left with three daughters. Her late husband was William Brown, hotelkeeper, and late of North Dunedin Police Force, born in Ballynena, Ireland, died in Heriot aged 33.
As mining dwindled, it appears that Steve moved around the Otago area in search of work, at one time living in Milton as a rabbiter, Invercargill as a labourer and later in Dunedin.
Steven and Elizabeth had a wee boy and named him James.
Children of Steve and Elizabeth were:-
Kate Whelan
Maggie Whelan
Elizabeth Jane Whelan (known as Sissie Whelan)
James Whelan, born 15 Jan 1889
Jim Whelan married Louisa Mary (Louie) Ashford (nee Rumble) in 1918 in Dunedin. Louie, born in Naseby in 1893, was a widow. She had married Sydney Gillan Ashford in Dunedin circa 1912, and according to her death certificate had a daughter and possibly a son by that marriage.
Jim passed away in Dunedin on 17 Mar 1964, and Louie in 1974.
Known children of Jim and Louie Whelan:-
Louie’s children from her previous marriage:
Gloria (possibly known as Louie)
A son (possibly named Sydney), and
Dorothy Elizabeth Whelan (known as Doris Whelan), born c1921