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Bryan HENNESSY, son of David HENNESSY and Anna FITZGERALD, was born in 1832.³ He was a soldier.⁴ He married Rebecca PHILLIPS on 31 Jan 1853 in St. Anne's, Shandon, Cork, Ireland.^{3 5} He married Emma Maria MORGAN on 22 Aug 1881 in Bangalore, Madras, India.⁶ He died on 4 Apr 1905 in Wellington, Madras, India.⁷ He was buried on 5 Apr 1905 in Wellington.

Bryan was a British Army Private, in the 1st Royals, living in Cork Barracks at the time of the marriage. Their first child was born in Corfu in 1854 (many Regiments went there during the Crimean War), their third child in Lancashire and from then on the children were born in Australia.

When Bryan William Hennessy was born on 14 May 1833 in Waterford, Ireland, his father, David, was 36 and his mother, Ann?, was 33. He married Rebecca Phillips and they had seven children together. He then married Emma Maria Morgan on 22 August 1881 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

His Military serial number was 2532. 2nd Battalion, The 1st of Foot Regiment (The Royal Regiment or The Royal Scots, then later The Lothian Regiment). He was a Musician, obtained from daughter Anne's birth certificate. Bryan William Hennessy served in the military in 1855 in Crimea, Ukraine, when he was 22 years old, in 1856 in Malta when he was 23 years old, and in Gibralter, Eastern Cape, South Africa, when he was 24 years old.

He left London in 1865 and arrived In February 1866 at Moreton Bay.

His son Walter was born in 1866 in Brisbane and Bryan's occupation was given as a "clerk on government work" and he was described as a magician in newspaper sources. After his wife Rebecca passed away in1874 he was noted as departed from Wellington, New Zealand, destination Bombay. He was on tour with an entertainment group in April 1880 in Burma. Son Walter's marriage certificate describes Bryan as a Bandmaster.

Bryan then married Emma Maria Morgan in Bangalore, Karnatka, India in 1881. He was 48 years old. In 1885 they were living in Lahore, Punjab.

His stage name became "Professor Hennicke" and he and his wifelived in Williamstown, Victoria and purchased the license of the Bay Pier Hotel.

Information then indicates his whereabouts being in Bombay, India. He died aged 71 in April 1905 in Wellington, Tamil Nadu, India, and was buried there^4,8,9,10.

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Robert PHILLIPS was born in 1808.¹⁵ estimated. Robert was a Teacher.^{16 17 1} He died on 9 Aug 1873 in Carrignavar, County Cork, Ireland aged 65.^{15 18 19 20 21} He died. He married Hannah DANIELS.

According to a report on education in Ireland, Robert and his wife were teaching about 70 students in a Parish Day school at Buttevant (Province of Cashel, Diocese of Cloyne, Benefice of Buttevant) in about 1834. The school was supported by the Kildare Street Society and the London Ladies' Hibernian Society and by local contributions. Annual donation from Lords Doneraile and Arden. A schoolhouse was provided by the local Minister, The Rev. Dr. Cotter {Vicar to the Garrison at Buttevant) and a Colonel Hill. Subjects taught were reading, writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping, mensuration, geography, grammar and needlework. In 1833 at Cork Assizes Robert Philips and Rev. Cotter were witnesses at a prosecution for vagrancy.

By 1843 the Vicar, J.L. Cotter was paying, from his varied income, 2 pounds per annum to the parochial schoolmaster, Robert.

In 1846 Robert was the schoolmaster of the parish school at Newmarket, a small town 38miles north-west of cork city. Heappears to have moved to Carricknavar, a village 8km. outside of Cork, by 1847, as "Griffith's Valuations" locate him there in 1847 and 1850. He was occupying a house and garden, as well as the "Church Education Society's school-house", so he must have continued his teaching. In 1852 the Valuations describe him as "the Parish Clerk". The land valuations show him in a house and garden adjoining a Church and the Church Education School. The property was rent-free and Robert was teacher of the male school and a Mrs.White teacher of the Female School.

He died in Carricknavar in 1873, intestate, with effects under 100 pounds value. Robert's cause of death was "ramolissement" or softening of the brain.

He is most likely buried in Dunbollogue graveyard, close to Carricknavar^{16,17,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27}.

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Hannah DANIELS¹⁹ was born in 1804 in Innishannon, Ireland.²⁸ She died on 11 Oct 1882 in Cork, Ireland.²⁹ She was buried in 1882 in St. Finnbar's, Cork. Sec H, Row 13, Grave 3.^{29 28} Cause of death: Natural Decay

Age: 78 Years.

Hannah was born in Innishannon, Cork, in the Protestant faith. According to a report on education in Ireland, Robert and Hannah were teaching about 70 students in a Parish Day school at Buttevant (Province of Cashel, Diocese of Cloyne, Benefice of Buttevant) in about 1834. The school was supported by the Kildare Street Society and the London Ladies' Hibernian Society, by local contributions and an annual donation from Lords Doneraile and Arden. A schoolhouse was provided by the local Minister, The Rev. Dr. Cotter and a Colonel Hill. Subjects taught were reading, writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping, mensuration, geography, grammar and needlework. By 1843 the Vicar, J.L. Cotter was paying, from his varied income, 2 pounds per annum to the parochial schoolmaster.

At her husband's death, or shortly after, Hannah was living at 17 Thomas Street, Cork, according to his will administration and the burial details.

Hannah's name is on her daughter Eliza's death certificate, informed by Walter Alexander Macdonald^{17,19,22,24,28}.

Robert PHILLIPS and Hannah DANIELS had the following children: