Anne (Ennis) Kissane (1849 - 1931)

Born 29 Oct 1849 in Toberclare, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of Michael Kissane — married 1871 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 16 Dec 1931 at age 82 in Wagin, Western Australia, Australia

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Biography

Anne was born in 1849. She passed away in 1931. She was a teacher and midwife like her mother before her. She had dark auburn hair like her daughter Johanna. She was born in the parish of Tubberclaire Athlone in Ireland in 1849 . She was well educated and a relative of the Ennis family of Ballynahown Court in Athlone. Before she came to Australia she lived in Liverpool where she worked for the Joseph family of Toxteth Park and it was from Liverpool that she caught a ship the "Gresham" to Australia. (She originally left Ireland as a teenager to work for her half great uncle Thomas Moran (1819-1881) of Toxteth Park in England). She arrived in Australia to Melbourne on 22 June1869 where she was employed by the Montefiore family. She married Michael Kissane in 1871 in Geelong.

After her marriage she moved to Echuca. Her brother John joined them in Echuca and became a farmer there in the 1880's. She ran a school house in Echuca on the family property called Boileau, her daughter Johanna also taught for a time at her school. She is also said to have later moved to West Melbourne where she ran a nursing home for expectant mothers. In 1908 she went to Western Australia (with her daughter Johanna (Hannah) and her small grandchildren on a ship) where some of her children had moved in the late 1890's to the Goldfields (Kanowna and Coolgardie). The men are said to have travelled by land in wagons. In Western Australia she started a maternity nursing home in the town of Wagin and lived there until her death in 1931.

After the death of her husband and two daughters to yellow fever she became a deeply devout Catholic which caused some conflict with her daughter Johanna. She is listed as a nurse living in Wagin in the 1910 Electoral roll. She is listed in the 1903 Electoral Roll as a nurse living in Middle Footscray (107 Pilgrim St) in Melbourne. On the record of her arrival it lists her ancestry as Irish and Scottish. Her mother Mary Ganley's paternal family are believed to have been of Scots Irish Protestant ancestry.

Anne's parent Edward and Mary are dna confirmed through ancestry.com Thru lines in which one descendant of Anne's brother Patrick matches two of Anne's descendants and her sister Rose has two descendants that match.

Sources

• Montefiore Connections on ancestry.com