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Emma Maria MORGAN married Bryan HENNESSY on 22 Aug 1881 in Bangalore, Madras, India.¹

Bryan HENNESSY, son of David HENNESSY (c. 1797-1885) and Anna FITZGERALD (c. 1800-1884), was born in 1832.² He was a soldier.³ He married Rebecca PHILLIPS on 31 Jan 1853 in St. Anne's, Shandon, Cork, Ireland.^{2 4} He died on 4 Apr 1905 in Wellington, Madras, India.⁵ 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^3,6,7,8.