Francis McKenna

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Esther Elizabeth Bell.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Rawson.

Anastasia (Feehan) McKenna was in a relationship with Patrick McKenna, and has a child Mckenna Martin Mckenna. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anastasia (Feehan) McKenna.

Patrick McKenna was in a relationship with Anastasia (Feehan) McKenna, and has a child Mckenna Martin Mckenna. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Patrick McKenna.

Gerald James McKenna 2nd Lt was born in 1873, and died at age 79 years old on July 30, 1953. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gerald James McKenna 2nd Lt.

George Alex Bremner of Kyneton Australia was born in 1914 in Kyneton. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember George Alex Bremner.

Margaret or "Maisie" married George Bullen. They had four children. Two daughters and two sons. They were very close with their brother and sister as Georges brother "Horrie' married Margarets sister "Linda'. They had many business ventures together with them.Horrie and Lindas two sons were also like brothers to George and Margarets children,all being raised together. George died young and she was left to raise the children on her own. She lived in Kyneton,VIC,Australia for many years. She died in Greensborough Nursing Home in 1987. I spent many of my young years holidaying at "Nanny I's" place as she was affectionately known by her many grandchildren. I have the best memories of sitting under the old Oak tree near the Kyneton Town Hall and having hot chips wrapped in newspaper followed by malted milkshakes at The Paragon Cafe.She was a very loving,gentle woman who was adored by her family and her loss was felt deeply by them.

The Shepparton Advertiser. 2nd June 1939. OBITUARY. MRS. SARAH DIVINY. In her 81st year, Mrs. Sarah M. Diviny relict of the late Mr. Edward Diviny, of Cohuna, died in the Tatura Bush Nursing Hospital yesterday. Born in Kyneton the deceased lived in Cohuna for many years and in 1914 came to Ardmona where she resided for 10 years before going to Surrey Hills to live. Deceased was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. N. McKenna, of Euroa. Seven of her family of nine; Michael John ( Shepparton ), James ( Kamarah, N.S.W. ), Hubert ( Ardmona ), Phons ( Rutherglen ), Gerald ( Elsternwick), Martin ( Ardmona ), and Leo ( Tatura ), are left to mourn her loss while Justin and Mrs. J. P. Gaffy predeceased her.

Michael McKenna was born in 1831 in Tipperary, County Tipperary Ireland, and died at age 74 years old on September 8, 1906 in Euroa, Strathbogie Shire County, VIC Australia. Michael McKenna was buried at Kyneton Cemetery Redesdale Rd, in Kyneton, Macedon Ranges Shire County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Michael McKenna.

Martin McKenna (1832-1907), brewer and pastoralist, was born on 11 November 1832 at Carrahill, Kilkenny, Ireland, son of Patrick McKenna, a Catholic farmer, and his wife Anastasia, née Feehan. After working for a Quaker firm of millers he migrated to Victoria in 1854. He mined on such goldfields as Ballarat, Ararat, Blackwood and Forest Creek but caught typhoid. McKenna then went to Kyneton where he joined his cousin Michael McKenna in business. By 1858 he was able to join a friend, Jowett, in building the Campaspe brewery in Beauchamp Street, Kyneton, and twenty years later combined with Johnson & C***'s brewery on the Campaspe. McKenna became chairman of the Kyneton Brewing Co., Jowett retiring from the business. In 1879 the malt house was built in Ebden Street. In 1861 McKenna and others including C. & M. Lyons took up occupation licences at Baynton, and the basis of McKenna's Glen Erin estate was formed. He also owned properties at Tylden and Katunga. In 1883 he told the royal commission on the tariff that he had between 4000 (1619 ha) and 5000 acres (2024 ha), with 120 acres (49 ha) under crop and the rest grazing Lincoln sheep, cattle and horses. McKenna's business interests included membership of the Board of Union Trustees and Executors Co. and shares in the Tramways Co. His tall upright figure was well known in Kyneton and in Melbourne where he wore a silk top hat and frock coat. He was a splendid host and enjoyed the respect of his contemporaries as an impartial and forceful leader in local affairs. His local offices included membership of the Land Board in the early days and presidency of the Kyneton Hospital and Racing Club. He was a sergeant in the volunteer Prince of Wales Light Horse in the 1860s. In 1864, after two years as a councillor, he was elected mayor of the borough of Kyneton. When Kyneton became a shire in 1865 he was its first president and remained a councillor till 1907. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Kyneton Boroughs in March 1868, and held the seat as a moderate protectionist until he retired in March 1874. In the Legislative Council he contested the North-Western Province in 1881 without success. He later held the post of returning officer for elections to the Legislative Assembly. He was also a justice of the peace. In 1865 McKenna had married Catherine, daughter of Bartholomew Wheeler of Carlsruhe; they had eleven children. One of their six sons became a Catholic priest and others carried on his civic interests. After two years of illness McKenna died on 7 May 1907.