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Daniel PENNEFATHER ( - )

Name: Daniel PENNEFATHER 1
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -

Individual Events and Attributes

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Marriage

Spouse Elizabeth Sarah CURR ( - )
Children Edward Cecil PENNEFATHER (1857-1936)
Reginald Walter PENNEFATHER (1860-1922)

Individual Note

From David Pennefather's history:

(W9) DANIEL PENNEFATHER, second son of (W5) Edward Pennefather of

Marlow and Mary Mansergh, was baptised, 2/3/1826, Church of St John the

Evangelist, Clonoulty, Tipperary. (At his wedding in 1854 Daniel gave his

age as 24 years. There is an inconsistency here.) Lieutenant Daniel

Pennefather of the 40th Regiment of Foot arrived in Melbourne, Australia

aboard HMS Vulcan on 5/11/1852. In 1854 he married Miss Elizabeth Sarah

Curr aged 21. He was Protestant and she was R.C. A Catholic wedding

ceremony was held in Melbourne on 22/1/1854 and a Protestant ceremony

was held on 28/1/1854. Some time after 1870 Daniel left his family in

Australia while he returned to Ireland where he died being buried in St

Patricks Rock, Cashel, 21/11/1894. Had issue:

(D1) Edward Cecil, born 1857 St Kilda

(D2) Gerald. Known as “Jed”, born at sea 1858.

(D3) Reginald Walter, born 1860.

(D4) Hugh Claud, born Melbourne 1863.

(D5) Wilfred Ernest, born 1868 Married Marian Putnam, 1897. DSP.

1. Evelyn. First born child - Tasmania - Died soon after birth.

Sources

1"David Pennefather's History".